Worth keeping in mind these only have a 10/100 Ethernet Port, so regardless of the 500mbit transmission capability, they are only a max of 100mbit end to end and in practice over an usable distance on most household wiring 60-80mbit is what you can expect.

So if you're on 50meg broadband or less these are fine for going from your modem to a router but if you're going to a pc in my own experience a well positioned n or ac wifi adapter can achieve faster transmission than a low end power line adapter like this.

Avoid these!

Random disconnections (check their forums).

Mine stopped working well one of them. Sent back to tp link for rma they sent me back battered one with soo many marks and scratches and it's an older model :disappointed:

Avoid tp link and go for netgear. No problems with netgear no disconnections.

How do you apply the discount when doing click and collect ?

Worth keeping in mind these only have a 10/100 Ethernet Port, so regardless of the 500mbit transmission capability, they are only a max of 100mbit end to end and in practice over an usable distance on most household wiring 60-80mbit is what you can expect.

So if you're on 50meg broadband or less these are fine for going from your modem to a router but if you're going to a pc in my own experience a well positioned n or ac wifi adapter can achieve faster transmission than a low end power line adapter like this.

heres a thought when they install smart meters does this make this type of network open to snopping hacking ect

Thanks thought I was missing something on site

Make sure you get a good set. The model up also comes with this nano adaptor and mine will only work when connected at 10Mbps.

I paid £10 more for the 2 port version with power pass-thru which was worth the extra £10. I had a terrible wifi signal to the PS4/Xbox and chose these over a wifi repeater. I get around 35-50mb download through them which is about what I expected and enough for console use.

Are these wifi extenders

no. they extend the reach of your router using the electricity wiring of your house.

Avoid these!

Random disconnections (check their forums).

Mine stopped working well one of them. Sent back to tp link for rma they sent me back battered one with soo many marks and scratches and it's an older model :disappointed:

Avoid tp link and go for netgear. No problems with netgear no disconnections.

I have a mix of Netgear and TP-Link Powerline devices around my house. Over an extended period of time, it is my observation that Netgear are far less reliable and TP-Link have performed faultlessly.

anyone know if these cost much on the electricity bill? Always see them but never any mention of power usage, surely if there using the entire house wiring it could be a bit pricy?
Are they ok to leave on 24/7?

you really should not avoid these, There's always the risk of having some bad luck...in anything in life. MIne too have been in use for years without issue. A friend once bought a brand new ford fiesta and problems from day one and unhappy with the service and so would never touch another...this is from the best selling car in the UK.

Almost every piece of TP-Link networking hardware I've had, with the exception of network adapters, suffers with random disconnects.

Do yourself a favor and spend the extra to get ones with WiFi built in, its pointless extending the reach of wired items and not extending you WiFi reach and signal strength as well to cater for mobile phones and iPads etc..

I use D-Link and they are absolutely faultless.

i have 200mbps version and it has broken about 4 times.

using tplink for nearly 2 years now.rarely drops me maybe once a month at best if that.still got the BT ones and not had to use them so far.

Purchased yesterday, plugged in, paired, working.

I'm a bit outdated with powerline kits. Mine are just 85mbps and I now only use them on my NAS which is in my garage. Everything else I have is hard wired, apart from my laptop.

Would these give a faster transfer speed when sending files over...bear in mind that it will still be over wifi via my laptop (if that makes sense!)

Just purchased in-store thanks

I have to agree, generally these are okay, but there are periodic disconnections

I did say that for such a case it's fine to use to connect between the modem and your router. Connecting from the router to a PC though you will also be limited to this speed within the network itself as well as to the internet. If you don't actually use any networking features like file sharing or a NAS then I guess that doesn't matter, but if you do want to transfer files within your own network I find I can achieve higher speeds with a good wireless n or ac connection than a low end device like this will give.

ok tks; I don't do allot of file transfers, as I backup to external hardrives, rather than NAS. I do download some files though. For me the price increase to get Gigabit does'nt seem worth it right ow. Also I prefer to use a 'wired' connection on the days I work from home rather than risk a wireless drop out.

anyone know if these cost much on the electricity bill? Always see them but never any mention of power usage, surely if there using the entire house wiring it could be a bit pricy?
Are they ok to leave on 24/7?

Have to say I'm mighty impressed with these. Got them in preparation for getting BT TV in the summer.

One is connected directly to a wall socket. The other is in a 3m surge protected 4 gang extension lead. I'd held off buying powerline adapters for ages, as I heard they weren't great when plugged into extensions.

I synced them first in adjacent sockets, which took less than a minute. Put them in there permanent places, and I get at least 75Mbps throughput. It could be more (up to 100Mbps obviously), but that's what speedtest was topping out at!

Can't comment on power consumption, but they enter low power mode after 15 minutes of inactivity.

For £17.99, I wish I'd got some sooner.

I reserved online and collected in store. They'll scan at full price, but tell the assistant about the deal if they don't know already, and they'll scan a discount barcode.

TP Link for me have been really good. I've used various bits of their kit and can't really fault it.

I have these and have had loads of issues with them.
Admittedly I bought refurbs from Pacetech on ebay, but I should have noted how many refurbs they actually sell - there's a sign of reliability.
Anyway bought a set of 4 in Nov 2015, have sent 2 back under RMA, since then another has failed and even the replacement sent failed after 1 week. They just die - power is there but they don't pick up the signal.
So all in all had 4 and all 4 have failed within the first 6 months. Now the warranty is expiring and no chance of a refund they are going on ebay (beware!).
At least with Currys you can return them to store...because you will.

looking for a set of 4+1 wifi powerline adaptors. any suggestions

If I was so particular on performance for gaming then I wouldn't go for this low end a device either to be honest. And are you getting 95Mbps+ with this specific adapter?

Obviously everyone's use case is going to be unique, but a £20 wireless ac adapter for me gives a 520mbit connection to my Virgin Super Hub and down/up speeds to my NAS of 20-30mbytes a second which is 4-5x what this device would achieve.

Well thats a lie. Virgin do not do 520Mbps broadband. Their highest consumer is 200Mbps at the moment.

How are you getting such slow NAS speeds on an internal network?

Are you trolling or just responding before properly reading what you're responding to?

520mbit wireless connection to the hub itself, the broadband speed is only 50meg.

And that's 20-30 megabytes per second not mbits from my internal NAS connection, that's bytes not bits which is 160-240mbits and is about what you can realistically expect from a wifi connection going through several walls.