The TP-Link TL-PA8030P KIT is a Powerline adapter that helps you extend and enhance your network using Powerline technology. It uses Powerline technology to transmit network signals through the electrical wiring of your home.
It features a built-in wireless access point that supports dual band AC1200 frequencies (2.4GHz and 5GHz). It also has Gigabit Ethernet ports, allowing you to connect wired devices and support data transfer speeds of up to 1300Mbps, providing fast and reliable internet connection.
Therefore, you can use it to extend your network to remote rooms, offices, or any area of your home where you need a stronger signal and fast connection.
Upgraded 1300Mbps!
The advanced HomePlug AV2 technology means that the TL-PA8030P KIT supports 2x2 MIMO with beamforming, so users can benefit from lightning-fast data transfer speeds of up to 1300Mbps. Ideal for bandwidth-intensive activities such as streaming Ultra HD video on multiple devices simultaneously, online gaming, and transferring large files.
Line-neutral/line-ground connection with beamforming
Greater Coverage
MIMO technology with beamforming maximizes the performance of independent streams, improving coverage throughout the home, especially for previously inaccessible outlets.
Higher Transmission Capacity & More Stable Connections
MIMO technology means the TL-PA8030P KIT can utilize all 3 wires, including the live, neutral, and ground, to create multiple data paths, resulting in faster data performance and more stable connections.
3 Gigabit ports for maximum connectivity
With 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports, the TL-PA8030P KIT can simultaneously connect up to 3 wired devices. This makes the TL-PA8030P KIT the perfect companion for home entertainment. Connect any 3 devices, from smart TVs and gaming consoles to NAS boxes and computers to the Internet at the same time. Simply plug in the Ethernet cable to the powerline and you're good to go!
Plug and Play
Connect a powerline adapter to your router, connect another powerline adapter to a socket in another room, and connect it to your device with Ethernet internet connectivity - and you're ready to go!
Additional power socket for additional devices
The built-in power socket, with an output power of up to 16A, means that the powerline can be used like a traditional socket. Simply connect your device or extension cable as if it were a regular wall socket. The built-in noise filter also helps prevent electrical signal noise from affecting the performance of the Powerline.
Energy Saving up to 85%
The TL-PA8030P KIT is a next-generation Powerline adapter. The advanced energy-saving function automatically switches from the normal "Working" mode to the "Energy Saving" mode, reducing energy consumption by up to 85%.
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With fiber optic up to the door and a 100Mbps connection, it reaches a speed of 40 Mbps at best, and the lowest speed is 15 Mbps. If I connect directly from the modem, it reaches 100. The supposed WiFi extender reaches lower speeds, only 70Mbps. A disappointment. Too many words to describe what the powerline does, but it does nothing. It's garbage.
The speed that it says, that is around 1300, it will not reach. In my case, it reaches a maximum of 350 and most of the time a little over 200. Usually, I find it reaching 230mbps.
I bought the TL PA8030P... because even though I have a 300 Mbps line with AV600 at a distance of 7m from the router, I only had 50 Mbps. I emailed a representative from TPLINK and they told me that in order to have at least 150 Mbps on a 300 Mbps line, I need to get a powerline with a gigabit port. So, I bought the TL PA8030P... now I have a distance of 60m from the router... I don't know what the problem is, if someone can write me an option so that I can reach at least 100 Mbps... otherwise, I can't evaluate it because I simply don't have the minimum that I could have.
Classically like all powerlines, this one also doesn't reach the nominal speeds, not even as a joke. However, it is reliable and generally maintains synchronization. I bought it after a lot of searching and reading because my old TP Link powerline (9020P) gave up after 3 years. I don't expect this one to last longer, but time will tell. So far, I am happy!
I bought it because I didn't have an Ethernet port in the living room and I wanted to connect a TV box with a wired connection. I should note that it gave me some trouble during installation... It was dropping the internet connection, but it was eventually fixed. I have a 50 Mbps line from Cosmote, which I usually get around 50 Mbps. When I connected it, while my laptop gets 46 Mbps, the box struggles to reach 30 Mbps... it might be the fault of the box, but I can't say for sure. It didn't make things easier for the purpose I wanted it for... However, I connected the TV and PlayStation and it's working fine
Excellent stability in the connection even in the old apartment building where I installed it. I am getting around 120Mbps and I am very satisfied. Just make sure to check with the TP-Link tpPLC utility that only the powerline devices in your home are connected to each other because if the neighbor also connects, they might accidentally connect to your network (during pairing). With the utility, you can easily check and only connect your powerline devices to your network.
I have bought 3 pairs and I have made the entire house power-to-ethernet. Just be careful with the package and the model. The 3 ports on each device are ideal. I haven't experienced any disconnections after working with them for 2-3 years. You install them and forget about them. I highly recommend them.
The purpose of purchasing the power line was that I am far away from my modem in my room, so I didn't have a good Wi-Fi signal, but I couldn't connect an Ethernet cable from the modem, so I decided to buy this powerline. Let's start with the positives:
1) It has three Ethernet ports, so you can connect three devices.
2) It doesn't block the wall socket since it is pass-through.
3) It has very good build quality.
4) There is minimal speed loss (in an old house from 1986 with 100 Mbps fiber to the home, it reaches 95 Mbps on Speedtest).
And now let's move on to the negatives, which is why I give it three stars:
1) Unstable ping in games, for example, in League of Legends. Tested with a direct cable connection to the modem, I had a ping of 59 ms, but with the powerline, it ranged from 60 ms to 70 ms in the same game.
2) I have experienced packet loss a few times.
3) Something they don't mention is the range, which is 300 meters from socket to socket, meaning it refers to the power wiring that reaches from one socket to another. So we are talking about a much longer distance compared to the measurement most people make, which states a distance of 20 meters from where I placed the first powerline.
4) Lastly, I must say that if the wiring in your house is old like mine, it will be difficult to have stability in ping, and as the distance from socket to socket increases, you will experience significant speed reduction, not to mention disconnections.
In general, powerlines are not a networking solution for gaming and live streaming, at least not for me
Bought on Black Friday for 70€.
Three-phase power in a multi-storey building built in the early '90s. I had logical losses of 30-40 mbps (you will never reach the speed of your provider as far as I have read through powerline), as it is in a different power phase (vdsl - 100th vodafone / synchronization at 120Mbps).
However, as soon as the TV started playing something via the internet (netflix, youtube, etc.), there is packet loss in the connection of my main PC, which is not connected to the powerline, but directly to the router!
Long story short, you download the Tp-Link plc utility and set both or as many powerlines as you have to advanced mode, "Lower PLC-to-VDSL interference mode" which states "Use this mode only if the performance of VDSL is affected". Since then, everything is fine, but if I notice anything, I will come back!
Edit 15 days later:
Absolutely no problem with the last paragraph before the edit. If you find it at this price, it is a recommended purchase, especially if it is the v.3 version! Attention, they do not have Wi-Fi, they are wired-orthodox!
I bought it at a black Friday price of 69 euros.
It didn't connect directly because I plugged it into the same socket as the router and then I read that powerlines can generally cause interference on the DSL line. There is an option to reduce this interference in the TP-Link program, but it decreases the speed. I didn't want that, so I plugged it into a different socket further away and it works fine.
The program states that the speed between the two devices is 300-350 Mbps. With my 50 Mbps plan, I consistently get 50 down and 4.9 up on speedtest, so it's great.
In the two weeks I've had it, it disconnected once, so I will provide an update.
I have been using it since Thursday 28/5/2020 and until today I had one disconnection, which occurred at the beginning when I was still setting up the computers. I use it as a network between two computers located on different floors (upstairs and downstairs) in a detached house with three-phase electricity. I had been told that it would not work with three-phase electricity (not by the store, a third party), but it worked just fine. The disconnection may also be due to the very poor internet in the area. Other than that, it is fully functional at the speed we have from the router. Overall, it has been an excellent choice and of very good quality.
After a period of 7 months, I can say that it is an excellent choice. It does not get disconnected and the disconnection that occurred was due to the bad internet. When everything falls into place, it works perfectly. Any disconnections mentioned by others may also be due to the malfunction of an electrical device that exists in the electrical network. I emphasize that I have a three-phase electrical network in the house. The network operates independently of whether there is internet (tested with a network printer without internet connection). It is worth the money, and if I want an extension, I will get the same system again.
Super
4th floor detached house
I only have tplink. I have everything connected through powerline and then wired.
I have a total of 6 devices and they all work on PC, TV, camera, etc
These little things are very good. They work correctly and have very good speed.
However:
1. You must definitely have them connected to the wall socket (as the instructions say). Then, plug in whatever you want. If you don't have them on the wall, the final speed may drop from 99 Mbps (we have fiber to the home) to 15 Mbps.
2. There must be no noise in the electrical cables. For example, if you live in an old building, like the previous house I lived in (where we also had fiber to the home), then you won't reach the 100 Mbps that OTE offers. There we had a maximum of 50. And good luck running around changing all the electrical cables in the house. They don't tell you that at OTE when they suggest installing the sockets for fiber to the home.
That's why:
It's better to get the sockets that work with Wi-Fi and not with Ethernet. That would have been a much better choice for my case, but I didn't know that then. Also, you may be interested in not having too much radiation in your house, so then you go with Ethernet.
Positive for the company: it has good customer support in Greece!
Positive for the device: There is software that controls the communication between the sockets, so you can check how much data is reaching from one to the other and at what speed, and understand if the power cables are to blame (if it's lower than the speed you have on your Wi-Fi, then you probably have noise - after ruling out all other possible causes).
9 MONTHS LATER... I can only say good things. I think its Wi-Fi is better than OTE's router. The signal it sends when you are close to it is the same as when you are next to the router. That is, 3 meters from the socket and 6 meters away from the router, the router gives 8 Mbps and the socket gives 44 Mbps (which is the maximum speed my space can reach). These are with 5 GHz, because the socket can also work with 2.5 GHz, which I haven't tried.
Excellent, they were paired with a 8630P and worked perfectly. Zero disconnections, speeds in a 1990 apartment building were around 400-420MBps where the 500Mbps ones I had were reaching 120-140. The best you can get at a reasonable cost.
Top product with incredible RMA service. I have never had any issues. Of course, the nominal speeds are not related to the actual ones, as the latter depend on the quality of the power network you have.
In my case, with 40-year-old cables, I achieve 300mbps even two rooms away (20 meters) and not even on the same circuit.
I connected them about ten days ago (Wind's VDSL 100), on different floors, three-phase power, very easily & it seems to be working fine.
Don't get confused, these specific ones do not have WiFi.
I use them with a three-phase network and a 50 Mbps VDSL line, and they are amazing. I bought them when I upgraded the line at home and realized that the performance of the WiFi connections was terrible, with speeds up to 16-17 Mbps. I disabled the wireless and now I am consistently getting 47-49 Mbps. Another positive aspect is that I didn't have to do anything for their installation. Be careful with the Ethernet cables you use, they should be Patch 5e or 6. They are worth their money.
Ideal case for networking without wifi!!! It will be tested with vdsl and I will come back.
Update: And with vdsl flawless!!! No disconnections, very stable!!!!
Highly recommended!!!
Excellent networking package, with good speeds and no disconnections. It integrates perfectly with Asus Modem-Router and does not affect the DHCP Server settings. The speed is somewhat excessive in a non-demanding environment and its true value is evident when connecting multiple devices and handling high loads, such as 4K video streaming or copying large amounts of data (e.g. for automatic backup or connection to a NAS). It can be combined with other powerlines to create a more complex local network, and it also works in spaces with three-phase power, as it can utilize the neutral line. It is a somewhat expensive solution for those who will not fully utilize it, but the demanding user will be fully satisfied.
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