topic Re: Powerline boosters in Broadband

Powerline boosters

Ph03nix — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:59:50 GMT

Hi all!

Following on from a previous thread about rubbish Wifi in my property, I wondered if anyone had used the following on their Sky Max hub with decent effect?

TP-Link TL-WPA4220 KIT AV600 Powerline Adapter Wi-Fi Booster

Long story short, I want a way to boost my Wifi upstairs but also offer ethernet ports for my lads PC and Xbox Series X. I know some products can be hit-and-miss with Sky hubs, so I didn't know if anyone had any luck with these?

Or of anyone has any luck with other adapters of any sort?

Ta!

- Luke

Re: Powerline boosters

Ph03nix — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:00:31 GMT

I should also say, I chose these due to the two ethernet ports.

Cheers!

Re: Powerline boosters

TimmyBGood — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:07:01 GMT

@Ph03nix wrote:

TP-Link TL-WPA4220 KIT AV600 Powerline Adapter Wi-Fi Booster

That appears to be 802.11b/g/n ('WiFi 4') hardware, so a long way off the current WiFi standards.

Re: Powerline boosters

JimM1 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:11:41 GMT

@Ph03nix Have multiple units installed, one for the Ring doorbell, and one for remote access in the remote garage!

Re: Powerline boosters

Ph03nix — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:13:39 GMT

Appreciate the heads up @TimmyBGood!

I'm not too fussed in regards to the WiFi speed upstairs. It advertised upto 300mbps and I'm currently getting 80 and dropouts without, so if it can reach ~150mbps I'll be happy. I know the ethernet ports are advertised as 600mbps, so if they work for my son's gaming set up I'll be happy. If not these, is there anything you would recommend?

Cheers!

Re: Powerline boosters

Ph03nix — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:14:43 GMT

@JimM1 and they work okay? What sort of speed do you get?

Re: Powerline boosters

JimM1 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:50:42 GMT

@TimmyBGood Good to the 100Mb/s speed, that;s as good as the Ethernet port get's!

Edit:- @Ph03nix You have that wrong, the nic ports are 100Mb/s max!

Will go test the garage one for you, that's the furthest away cable wise!

Ookla is 40/15 Mbps on the FF500, and netspot was 59.59Mb/s download it does not do an upload in it's test, garage is 25Metre away from home and reciever is up stairs on the circuit! The AV1000 is at the Ethernet switch simple reason the original AV600 packed in after 6 years on the power and you cannot get the AV600 as a new model Tp has obsoleted them replaced abou 3 months ago so the AV1000 will be running in AV600 mode even though it has a Gigabit nic on it! Use both types now so have a spare AV1000, would not buy 2nd hand as you have NO history off use, just look at mine been on that length off time never switched off!

Re: Powerline boosters

TimmyBGood — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:36:49 GMT

@Ph03nix

It's an outdated specification overall, which probably relates to the price-point. As @JimM1 indicates, the ethernet is 100baseT rather than gigabit.

Realistically all Powerline hardware is now rather overshadowed by modern mesh WiFi.

Re: Powerline boosters

Marinabuckner — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:41:33 GMT

I'm having trouble I've had no network all day

Re: Powerline boosters

TimmyBGood — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:44:19 GMT

@Ph03nix

TP-LINK has a page on their different generations of Powerline networking hardware here:

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/powerline/#how-to-choose-powerline

Re: Powerline boosters

Marinabuckner — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:50:01 GMT

If this does not get sorted I will change suppliers

Re: Powerline boosters

JimM1 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:52:24 GMT

@Marinabuckner Go for it, hope you are out off contract though!

Re: Powerline boosters

Sharcuk — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:29:28 GMT

@Marinabuckner You're more likely to get a response from your fellow customers on this community if you start a forum post of your own, rather than adding a comment to a thread which is discussing a completely different topic.