AV1000 WiFi Powerline Adapter Kit with Gigabit Ports, Powerline Extender with AC650 Dual Band WiFi, Plug and Play, for HD/3D/4K Video Streaming and Gaming (PH10)

I bought this unit yesterday. This is the easiest electrical device I've ever put used. It literally took me all of 5 minutes to do it. I've now been rewarded with FAST internet speeds throughout the house and the pleasure of owning an electrical device that has lived up to every promise. With this device you only need ONE wifi name and password - that automatically comes from your wifi router - no computer app setup at all - just connect a wire and push a couple of buttons and plug the 2nd module where the wifi signal is the worst and you're done. Afterwards as you travel through your house, you'll not have to switch your various devices to the extender wifi network, AND, if you have a remote desktop, the second module can be plugged in next to you computer and you can run an ethernet cable from the module to your computer. It's EASY! I wish that I had bought one of these units YEARS ago. No more buffering while watching movies or YouTube. It's almost as easy as plugging your telephone into a wall jack. This is an AAAAA+++++ product!

The Tenda AV1000 Wi-Fi extender was easy to install and provides a much wider range of signal than I expected. I was a bit concerned that as I had learned prior to my purchase, the internal wiring between my wall outlets and my breaker box might not allow the Tenda to work as designed. Knowing Amazon's return policy, I decided it was worth trying. Bottom line: I am delighted with how well the Tenda works and would not hesitate to recommend it.

This was pretty easy to install. I wasn't able to replicate the wifi name from my router, but it could have been due to a traditional repeater already in use. It wasn't a big deal to me, so I didn't pursue it. The connection has been very stable over the last 2 months, although I have seen a drop in speed of about 40% when used for wifi compared to wifi from the router when in normal range. Although disappointing, this drop hasn't affected performance for my use case. If you have a fairly low speed from your ISP, it's something you should probably consider.

The instructions for changing the wifi SSID are outright wrong, and the system breaks if you reboot your main router, because the remote devices do not know to re-issue new DHCP requests. I wanted to change the WiFi SSID and password. The instructions, in the FAQ section, tell you to log into the wifi management interface via a url starting with "plc." then "tendawifi." and then "com". (Amazon won't let me just give the url). Presumably that website would somehow detect the local IP address of the wifi unit and redirect there... but that tenda web site does not exist! What you have to do is open the admin interface of your *main* router and find out what IP address the Tenda wifi box has been given via DHCP, and then point your browser there. To make matters worse: The Tenda wifi extender does not notice if you reboot your main router, which invalidates all local IP addresses assigned by DHCP. The Tenda wifi box thinks it still has the old IP address but your main router might assign that address to something else after it reboots (it's first-come, first-served), causing a conflict. The Tenda system should make a new DHCP request every time the link to the main router goes down and up again (the powerline adaptor at the router end should detect when the Ethernet connection comes up and notify the other powerline devices, namely the Tenda wifi unit, to issue a new DHCP request). To prevent conflicts, you should "reserve" an IP address for the Tenda unit's MAC address in your main router (usually under something like "DHCP address reservation"). Once running, I got 60-80 mbit/sec in a detached garage which is perfectly fine.

It does exactly as it's described. Easy to read instructions and installation. If you happen to know the wiring layout of your home then it should be easily convenient to know where to install these devices. The only problem on my end that I've notice is that the socket must be cleared as much as Possible (no extension cords, the less plugs in the walls, the better). The system will not work if there are too many things plugged into the outlets on both end to make this work. As noted earlier, its good to know the wiring of your place if possible because not all sockets share the same wiring so for me I had to set up my system a bit further than where I hope to install. The PROs to this is that it's dual band and does well in amplifying signals. Great enough to run a zoom meeting and play games and stream movies or shows. The cons Is that those signals kept dipping and going off and on due to electrical interference. If you're looking for a solid wifi extender, I'd recommend looking into a mesh wifi system.

We had two spots where we wanted wifi, but where an older (pre-AV2 standard) powerline adapter I bought a few years ago would not connect. One was our porch, and here the Tenda AV1000 kit worked well. (It even worked on a 6ft extension cord but the speed dropped sharply.) The other spot is our detached garage, in order to get wifi to our cars' head units. This device would not pair there, even after I bypassed the GFCI. However, the power line is ~100ft of old buried cable, and who knows how well shielded it is, so I can't really blame Tenda. One thing to note is that the power pins are positioned close to one edge, such that the other outlet in a pair of wall power outlets remains available. Many TP-Link and other models will wholly or partially cover the second outlet. The internal web page of the Tenda is almost identical to similar pages for TPLink devices, so possibly these devices are all made by the same people in China. One can connect to this configuration web page easily, without the contortions required by some other manufacturers.

I am very surprised. I heard of this tech years ago but was skeptical. I installed it at first on an outlet in the back room perfect open location for the entire room,no signal .tried another outlet in same room i got signal but behind the bed so signal was 15 Mbps ,better than 2 Mbps i was getting before.But I really wanted the other outlet and trial and error in the apt. The electrical seems to divide the apt in two sides so I adjusted the feed location in the living room to the outlet corresponding to my back room and boom my speeds jump to 54Mbps which if excellent from my 100Mbps in the modem( wifi aways cuts in half) so I am very Happy with this product.

These modules are used to send an internet signal between points using the power lines of the facility. One module was defective and it was replaced without any difficulties.