User's Guide

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Chapter 1
Get to Know About Your Powerline Extender
1. 1. Product Overview
What This Product Does
TP-LINK’s TL-WPA8730 AV1200 Gigabit Powerline ac Wi-Fi Extender is a combined wired/
wireless network expansion device. With the help of your home’s existing electrical
circuitry, it can extend your Wi-Fi to wherever you want in your house.
802.11ac - The Next Generation of Wi-Fi
This extender comes with the next generation Wi-Fi standard – 802.11ac, backward
compatible with 802.11n and 3 times faster than wireless N speeds. With higher
power efficiency and robust security, 802.11ac is the perfect way to accelerate a home
multimedia network and solve congestion that multiple devices may cause.
1750Mbps Concurrent Dual Band - More Bandwidth, Less Interference
With 1300Mbps wireless speeds over the crystal clear 5GHz band and 450Mbps over
the 2.4GHz band, this extender offers you the flexibility of two dedicated networks and
ensures amazing wireless performance. Simple tasks such as sending e-mails or web
browsing can be handled by the 2.4GHz band while bandwidth intensive tasks like
online gaming or HD video streaming can be processed by the 5GHz band – all at the
same time.
1. 2. Main Features
• New generation of tpPLC Utility to manage the whole powerline network easily and
conveniently.
• Wi-Fi Move to synchronize any changes to Wi-Fi Settings across a secured powerline
network.
• Wi-Fi Clone to copy wireless network name (SSID) and password of your router to the
extender at the press of a button.
• Guest Network to set a separate new wireless network for guests without disclosing
your own wireless network.
• Button control to turn LEDs or Wi-Fi on or off with the press of a button.
• Wi-Fi Schedules to set when your Wi-Fi be on.
• Multiple Ethernet ports to connect the TVs, game consoles, or PCs to the Internet at
the same time.