TP-Link Powerline WiFi Extender - Add-on Single Adapter, Ethernet over Powerline, Plug & Play, Compatible with all TP-Link powerline adapters with different speed, AV600 with N300 WiFi(TL-WPA4220)

I live in a high rise in Manhattan (think lots of concrete and steel) not conducive to spreading around a WiFi signal through out my two bed room apartment. My router, a five year old Cisco E-3000 is adequate to the task for the guest bedroom but the signal was barely adequate out in the living room. 3-4 years ago I bought a Netgear Wifi extender for the living room. Initially it was OK. At the time I was only paying my ISP for 25 Mbs and was getting about 7-8 Mbs from the Netgear extender. Not great, to say the least, but enough for what I needed out in the living room. About 2-3 years ago my wife & I decided to cut the cable. The Netgear extender was just enough to stream video through my BluRay player, TV & Roku 2XS box. Then something changed in the electronic environment and the signal went to hell. That's when I discovered Powerline. Trying to run Cat-5 cable all over this apartment would have been a nightmare not mention the expense and screwing up my wife's chi. Bought a Netgear Powerline started kit and a Netgear fast Ethernet switch and hard wired the TV, BlueRay player and Roku box. Problem solved. By the way I also bought a Tablo TV DVR which is also wired to my network. (Tablo HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - 5 Stars!). Kept the Netgear extender in the living room as the signal was good enough for cruising the webs and watching some video on mine & the wife's iPads. Then some thing else changed the environment again and the signal went to s**t again. Tried changing the router settings (different channels, reset the extender to factory settings and downloaded the new firmware: Nada, Zilch.) Being a little slow on the uptake, I finally realized that if I bought another Powerline modular I could get Ethernet signal to any electrical outlet in the apartment. Bought my first TP-Link Powerline module and set it up in the master bedroom along with a TP-Link Ethernet switch. Now the TV, BlueRay player and Roku box in the master bedroom are hard wired and working just fine. Like I said being a little slow on the uptake, it finally dawned on me that I could buy another Powerline adapter for the living room and get Ethernet signal to a router in the living room set up as an access point. Went on line and found a router with great reviews for dirt cheap. I mean $19.00! Yes, TP-Link. Set it up in the corner of the living room and now I'm getting around 30 Mbs WiFi. My ISP has since upgraded my service to 50 Mbs without charging me any me anything extra. (If you can believe that.) I moved the Netgear extender to an available outlet in the kitchen where, again, it was adequate but not great. Again, something happened in the electronic environment and the signal just went to hell. I don't think it's the Netgear extender. I just think that the WiFi environment where I live is overwhelmed with competing signals. Finally got fed up with the poor signal and went looking for a solution. Found the TP-Link Powerline adapter with built in WiFi. Came today. Took me 10 minutes to set this thing up and clone it to my router. I went from 3-4 Mbs to 34 Mbs. (That's not a typo.) The iPad that I use in the kitchen is like a new machine. So I have now purchased two TP-Link Powerline adapters; a TP-Link router and the TP-Link Powerline adapter with built in WiFi. I cannot be happier with the devices. Yeah, once in a while I have to reset the cheapie router in the living room (once a month, maybe) but I'm not even sure it's the router. Could be the ISP; could be interference on the electrical line; who knows? Small price to pay for such an inexpensive and basically fine router. You can look for my reviews for all this stuff under "K". If you're not familiar with Powerline, do yourself a favor and investigate it. Save you a lot of money and head aches.

I've become an almost exclusive user of TP-Link's products. This one won't hurt my opinion of them. We have the TL-PA4010KIT and the Archer C8 Router. My wife was wanting something to extend our WiFi into our kitchen, it's on the far end of the house away from the rooms we typically need internet in. She first ordered the TP-Link RE200, but all it really did was hurt the already poor WiFi reception in our kitchen. I built our current house and intended for the kitchen to be electronics/screens-free. My mom lives with us and is retired. She loves to take our kids into the kitchen, cook with them, have them test out her cookies or whatever she's in the mood to cook, but she despises computers/phones in the kitchen. She does like technology everywhere else though. My wife started taking online classes since we moved in and now needs internet in the kitchen so she can study in peace.With no RE200 or this WPA4220 we were getting 1-2 MB/sec at the kitchen table.The RE200 actually dropped us below 1 MB/sec at the kitchen table.I realized my wife had ordered the wrong product since it was giving what I call a "ghost" signal. Our phones, laptops were all saying they had full WiFi reception, but the speeds were just terrible. We can get upwards of 75 MB/sec in the bedrooms.Since I had experience with the 4010, I knew it should be better than what she was getting and finally found this WPA4220. I'll be completely honest and say it doesn't get as much speed in the kitchen as I would like, but it's still getting a consistent 25-30 MB/sec with the WPA4220 plugged in the hallway which is halfway between the router and kitchen.When I built this house I set out to make it WiFi friendly and ran most of the wiring, metal on the end with the kitchen with minimal shielded wiring throughout the bedrooms and bathrooms. It has worked good for what I intended. This WPA4220 does a good enough job. I knew expectations couldn't be too high since the hallway leads right into heavy wiring in the walls, so 25-30 MB/sec is probably lucky. I gave it 5 stars based on my knowledge of the house's wiring and my intentional attempt to lower WiFi accessibility in our kitchen to start with. It saved me a lot of time of going into the attic and rewiring everything.One tip: My wife is impatient. She plugged this in the kitchen and expected it to pair up with the router which is roughly 40 feet away. She was ready to send it back since it wouldn't even pair. I took it to our bedroom where the router is, pushed the WPS button on the router, plugged this in maybe 5 feet away and held the connect button for probably a minute. It paired up and has been working fine in the hallway ever since. I also think it's important to plug this into an outlet and not a surge protector. I originally had a problem with the 4010KIT since I tried plugging it into a surge protector.Very good product overall.

I bought the kit and an additional extender to get wifi in three dead zones in my house. While my laptop got signal fine, my iPad mini was spotty, and my iPhone 5 had become frustrating. I use the Internet constantly on multiple devices nearly my entire day all the time.Two dead zones are almost fully beneath one another (one on the first floor and one on the second). A third dead zone was in our basement, across the house (not under these two). In addition, I hoped we could get some signal in our front and back yards to watch Netflix outside.When I first wrote a review, I had accidentally mixed up the transmitter and the extender. Surprisingly, it still worked that way, just not very well. Once I realized my error, everything was great.Things went so well, I thought I only needed 1 extender for my entire 2400 SF house (plus part of our small front and back yards).But after taking one away and testing for a few days, sometimes Internet would cut out. So, I'm back to using two.One last thing: because I was still on Snow Leopard and did not have a newer router with a WPS button, I could not merge the new networks into mine. That's ok for now during a testing period: since each extender creates its own network, I can see which one I'm using and which one is stronger, etc. I might keep it this way for a while, just so I can see what's going on. The downside is that my devices do not automatically pick the strongest signal.In short, I highly recommend buying these, and although sometimes one extender was enough, I did need two, I think. I took away one star because the signals could be more consistent or stronger (although I am sure environment plays a part) and because there wasn't any software for Macs from Snow Leopard and prior.