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Need a New Extender for PLW1000
I've had a PLW1000 for 3 years and it's been excellent.
Moved to a new house and have a deadspot in the kitchen, so need an extra extender.
Having done some research and asked a few people, I was told to get a TP-Link AV600 as they are supposedly all compatible with one another across brands because of the AV standard, whatever that is.
Anyway, that arrived today and after 10 hours of swearing and speaking to TP link support, it seems there is no way on earth this will ever work with the Netgear setup.
So I'm sending that back.
What do I need to buy to work with the PLW1000? I know you can't buy individual extenders (which is insane) and the PLW1000 doesn't seem to be for sale any longer. I just want something I can plug in, whack the 'Pair' button and it works. I'm done with faffing around on bizarre websites, apps and depths of the web like I have been today!
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cgfw201 wrote:
Anyway, that arrived today and after 10 hours of swearing and speaking to TP link support, it seems there is no way on earth this will ever work with the Netgear setup.
You don't say what you did and how it failed, but I have successfully managed to get different brands to work together. It turned out to be easy. I followed the usual instructions:
>>> Adding a powerline adapter to an existing powerline network <<<
cgfw201 wrote:
What do I need to buy to work with the PLW1000? I know you can't buy individual extenders (which is insane) and the PLW1000 doesn't seem to be for sale any longer.
Indeed, insane.
I assume that you are looking for a Powerline plug with an integrated wireless access point (AP). You don't say where you are, but Amazon UK still has stock:
Expensive though.
I'd be tempted to forget about a Powerline AP, never the most capable AP around, and use a plain mains Powerline plug as the Ethernet link to a more powerful extender/access point. I have an Orbi router (in AP mode) at the end of a .link.
The TPLink one just wouldn't sync with the Netgear powerlines. I got all 3 devices (Netgear PLW1000 adapter and extender) + the TPLink extender showing on the TPLink software, changed the SSID and passwords to match, but the extender just refused to give out any wifi signal even though it said it was, and the Ethernet connection was going on for one second then off for one second and was unusable.
I tried various websites and logins (things like 198.162.1.1 and tplinkadmin.net or similar) as per their instructions, none of them resolved it.
I was then walked through the process on the phone with TPlink for an hour, and at the end they decided it was impossible.
What is Powerline AP that you mention?
The thing I like about PLW1000 is how simple it was to setup and how well it works. It's so frustrating not to be able to buy a new extender for it!
cgfw201 wrote:
The TPLink one just wouldn't sync with the Netgear powerlines. I got all 3 devices (Netgear PLW1000 adapter and extender) + the TPLink extender showing on the TPLink software, changed the SSID and passwords to match, but the extender just refused to give out any wifi signal even though it said it was, and the Ethernet connection was going on for one second then off for one second and was unusable.
I don't follow that.There's a whole load of missing detail in there, including the TPLink model.
First move is to get the wired ethernet bit to work. Worry about the wifi when you have confirned that.
cgfw201 wrote:What is Powerline AP that you mention?
The PLW1000 is Powerline AP, a Powerline plug with an integrated wifi source, the AP bit.
