TP-Link Powerline WiFi Extender TL-WPA7617 KIT - Includes AV1000 Powerline Ethernet Network Adapter and AC1200 Dual Band Extender, Gigabit Port, Passthrough, OneMesh, Ethernet Over Power, Plug & Play

Easy set up. Used it to extend my wifi for security cameras.

First of all, amazing quick and free delivery to the Philippines, revceived it in 5 days from order!! Product is what is expected from TP-Link, nicely packaged, easy to program and pair and definitley improved my wifi. Overall 110% happy with this purchase.

It paired right away and worked for a few days. Then it stopped working and I couldn't get it to pair again. I unplugged both "ends" of it for about a few days and tried again. Its worked well ever since. Who knows what the future holds and I'm past my return window now. Speed isn't great but good enough for my needs (web browsing, streaming music, phone connectivity).

Our cable internet provider says our signal should be at least 500 Mbps down, and currently a wired connection measures in the low 600’s. Wi-Fi on the other side of the house drops to about 330 Mbps. Powerline Wi-Fi extenders have been recommended by folks who should know on online forums to which we belong, so we hoped this extender would provide a good signal throughout the house, including some places where we don’t have one.However, with the adapter plugged into a port on the router, the extender barely produced 30 Mbps when plugged into an outlet on the same electrical circuit. This is good enough to stream 4K video, but no useable signal was present when we plugged into an outlet where we needed it, so we returned the device for a refund. My husband fiddled with it for a week or so, but it just didn’t work in our house.Perhaps the poor performance is due to the way our house is wired. It was built in 1989 when houses were wired room by room, with outlets and lighting fixtures on the same circuit. Or maybe there is some other reason.As a sidebar I can report that powerline Wi-Fi is compatible with X-10 home automation, as all our X-10 devices continued to work. X-10 is an older home automation protocol which wouldn’t be installed today, but since our system works just fine there is no need to replace it. Or maybe the reason there was no interference between the two systems is because the Wi-Fi signal was so weak. Strange that our house wiring supports an old automation protocol but not a new Wi-Fi system.

It gave us the secure wifi we needed in our unattached shop so we can used our wifi garage doors!

This past year we moved to a more remote part of town and even with fiber optic WiFi, we were having a problem with buffering and needing to reboot the system. My son purchased this and it has helped the problem. The signal strength is so much stronger throughout the house. We do a lot of streaming and the speed is noticeably better. It was well worth every penny

I wanted Internet access in my workshop - it's two floors below my WiFi access point and between the flooring, ductwork and so forth, I've had little luck getting a reliable signal there. I don't need massive speed, so my first thought was powerline networking. I've had good luck with TP-Link powerline products in the past, so I figured I'd try it.The biggest problem I had was that the product I received was obviously returned by a previous owner. I can say this definitively because instead of using the default SSID and password on the label, it was configured to the SSID "DavesGarage" with an unknown password...clearly, someone had deployed this product and returned it to Amazon, but nothing in the product description told me I was paying for a used product.I was also surprised at the performance limitations of this device. I have an older TP-Link powerline adapter that works well, but lacks WiFi (it's just two wired gigabit ethernet ports). I get about 700 megabits to this device and that's more than enough for my needs. I was expecting this newer WPA7617 to be as fast or faster, but that's not the case.On the wired ports of the WPA7617, I'm getting about 100 megabits - maybe 10% of the advertised speed. Connected to WiFi, I get about 30 megabits on the 2.4 GHz band, and about 50 megabits on the 5.0 GHz band. I thought perhaps the issue was the location where I have the device, so I moved the WPA6717 to the same location where I have my other powerline adapter and unplugged the older one. No change - still roughly 10% of the promised throughput. I also tried moving my older TP-Link receiver to my workshop, and it did fine there - about 700 megabits.Thinking it might be a problem to have two separate powerline networks going, I also tried pairing the receiver in the WPA7617 kit with my existing powerline network...again, no chancg in performance. I was impressed that this configuration worked (that is, one sender connecting to two receivers), but it didn't seem to make a difference from a performance perspective.Other negatives I'll mention are that the device runs a bit hot, it's big enough to block both outlets in a normal junction box, and it doesn't support any of the recent WiFi standards. There's no 802.11AC, AX, etc...the latest you get is 802.11n - a 15-year old standard that emerged in 2008.On the positive side, it is fairly inexpensive and once I understood how to reset the device back to factory defaults to clear the configuration that the previous owner had set, the setup process went smoothly. I had it up and running in just a few minutes, and the connection seemed to be solid (albeit slow).In summary, I suppose the fact that I was shipped a used product masquerading as new isn't TP-Link's fault...I'll blame Amazon for that one. But dramatically slower performance than advertised is troubling, and even though that's not necessarily a show-stopper for me,I just can't recommend this product. I'd definitely recommend trying other brands instead.

This product worked for 1 1/2 years and quit working. TP-Link Technical support was of no help. This product is still under warranty. When I mentioned that I wanted an RMA number so I could warranty them. They disconnected me from the chat.