Product Introduction
The TL-WPA4220KIT is a Starter Kit for 300Mbps AV500 Wi-Fi Powerline Extender by TP-LINK. The Standard Retail Price for the TL-WPA4220KIT in Malaysia is RM119.00 (single pack) / RM179.00 (twin pack). This product will extend your Internet connection to every room through your home’s existing electrical circuit.
Content of the package includes :-
• TL-PA4010 unit
• TL-WPA4220 unit
• 2 x RJ45 Cable
• Resource CD
• Quick Start Guide

TP-LINK TL-WPA4220KIT Features:
• Wi-Fi Clone Button simplifies your Wi-Fi configuration and helps build a seamless unified home network
• HomePlug AV standard providing up to 500Mbps high speed data transmission over a home’s existing electrical wiring, ideal for lag-free HD or 3D video streaming and online gaming
• Extend 300Mbps wireless connections to previously hard-to-reach areas of your home and office
• Two Ethernet ports allow your TVs, game consoles, or PCs connect to the Internet
• Up to 300-meter range over the household power circuit
• Easy to install, just plug in and play
• 128-bit AES encryption easily at a push of "Pair" Button
• Supports IGMP managed multicast IP transmission, optimizing IPTV streaming

Personal Review
For this review, I have setup this TL-WPA4220KIT Starter Kit with the TL-WDR4300 router (read review here).

What’s Powerline Technology ?
• Also known as HomePlug®
• A very simple and reliable way to connect devices to the Internet and one another using your home’s existing electrical wiring.
• Theoretical connection speed up to 1.2Gbps.
• Suitable to connect devices without Wi-Fi support.

Installation
Installing the TL-WPA4220KIT starter kit is very simple. Connect the TL-PA4010 to an electrical socket (on wall, not power strip**) and connect the Ethernet cable to your router’s LAN port. For this review, I plug the cable into any LAN port (yellow) on the TL-WDR4300 router. Subsequently, plug in the TL-WPA4220 to another electrical socket in any room (which requires better Wi-Fi coverage).
**I did test by connecting the TL-PA4010 on a surge power strip and it works too. But you may degrade the network quality/speed of the Powerline network.



Basically this starter kit will create a Powerline network and extend your current Wi-Fi coverage in your home. The TL-WPA4220 has 2 Ethernet ports which suitable to connect your Smart TV, Game Console, Personal Computer, Media players, etc., to the Internet.
The TL-WPA4220 provides better performance than normal Wi-Fi Extender because you can leverage on any electrical socket in your home to get better Wi-Fi coverage.



To make easier to connect the TL-WPA4220 to your existing Wi-Fi network, you can utilise the Wi-Fi Clone button (aka WPS). It will automatically copy the wireless network name (SSID) and Password of your router at the push of a button. After pressing the Wi-Fi Clone button, you can place the TL-WPA4220 anywhere and enjoy seamless networking across your entire home or office. With this feature, you do not need to configure the TL-WPA4220 via web browser.

The TL-WPA4220KIT supports 128-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) to secure your Powerline network. Just press and hold the Pair button on the TL-WPA4220 for 1 second. Next press and hold the Pair button on the TL-PA4010 for 1 second (complete 2nd step within 2 minutes).

You may download the complete TL-WPA4220KIT User Guide.

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This post has been edited by ronnie: Feb 17 2015, 02:35 PM

You plug the TL-PA4010 unit next to your Wireless Router.
Enable WPS on your Wireless router.
Plug the TL-WPA4220 unit on the 1st floor.
Press the WPS button on TL-WPA4220 to sync the SSID of the Wireless Router

Possibly yes, possibly no ... either way not recommended to plug into extension gang to avoid noisy line

This post has been edited by ronnie: Mar 5 2015, 01:16 PM