TL-WPA8630 User Guide AV1200 Gigabit Powerline ac Wi-Fi Extender REV1.0.
Contents About This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter 1. Get to Know About Your Powerline Extender . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1. 1. 1. 2. 1. 3. Product Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Main Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 11. 4.Backup and Restore Configuration Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 3. 11. 5.System Log. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Appendix A: Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
About This Guide This guide provides details of each function and shows how to configure the powerline extender appropriate to your needs. In addition to this guide, a Quick Installation Guide is also released with each TP-LINK powerline extender, you are suggested to configure your extender for quick Internet setup by following the published Quick Installation Guide before you get started with a further configuration.
Chapter 1 Get to Know About Your Powerline Extender This chapter introduces what the powerline extender can do and shows its main features and appearance.
Chapter 1 1. 1. Get to Know About Your Powerline Extender Product Overview What This Product Does TP-LINK’s TL-WPA8630 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 TP-LINK’s TL-WPA8630 comes with the next generation Wi-Fi standard – 802.11ac, backward compatible with 802.
Chapter 1 Get to Know About Your Powerline Extender 1. 3. Product Appearance 1. 3. 1. LED Legend LEDs of the extender are located on the front side. They indicate the working status. For more details, please refer to the following table. Name Power Powerline Ethernet Status Indication On/Off The powerline extender is on or off. Blinking Pairing is in process. Yellowgreen The powerline extender is in a location with a good signal strength.
Chapter 1 1. 3. 2. Get to Know About Your Powerline Extender Physical Interface Reset Button Ethernet Port Wi-Fi Button LED Button Pair Button Power Plug Reset Press and hold the button for at least 5 seconds until all LEDs go off to reset the powerline extender to factory default settings. Ethernet Port The extender has three 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet ports. You can use them to connect the extender to computers or broadband devices.
Chapter 1 Get to Know About Your Powerline Extender LED Button Press and hold the button for 1 second to turn all LEDs on or off. All LEDs are on by default. If you don’t feel like being bothered by the LED light at night, press and hold the button for 1 second to turn all LEDs off. The next morning, just press and hold the button again to turn them on. Pair Button Press and hold the button for 1 second to join a powerline network. Go to To Set Up a New Secure Wireless Network for more information.
Chapter 2 Initial Use This chapter guides you on how to use the powerline extender when you first open the package.
Chapter 2 2. 1. Initial Use To Set Up a New Secure Wireless Network I want to: Use the Powerline Wi-Fi Kit to set up a new secure wireless network in my house. For example, I have a wireless router in my house, but the wireless signal cannot reach every corner. So I bought a Powerline WiFi Kit to extend the wireless network. The Powerline Wi-Fi Kit includes a powerline adapter and a powerline extender. How can I do that? 1. Connect the powerline adapter to an available LAN port of the router. 2.
Chapter 2 Initial Use Done! 2. 2. Now enjoy the Internet with the SSID and password printed on the Wi-Fi Info Card! To Extend the Existing Wireless Network I want to: Extend the existing wireless network by adding a new powerline extender into the existing powerline network. For example, I already set up a wireless network using powerline devices, but the wireless network is still not big enough to reach the top floor. So I bought a new powerline extender to extend the wireless network.
Chapter 2 Initial Use Existing Powerline Extender New Powerline Extender Powerline 2. Join the new powerline extender into the existing powerline network by Pairing two powerline devices. a . Press the Pair button on the existing powerline extender for 1 second. The Power LED starts blinking. Note: If the Power LED does not blink, press again. b . Within two minutes, press the Pair button on the new powerline extender for 1 second. The Power LED starts blinking.
Chapter 2 Initial Use Done! Now enjoy the Internet! The SSID and password are the same as that of your old wireless network! Q & A: If you still don’t have wireless signals near the new extender, it is possibly you haven’t paired your old powerline devices. We recommend you follow the steps below to pair them. Please note that Pair can only be used on two devices at a time. 1. Press the Pair button on the old powerline extender for 1 second. Then its Power LED starts blinking.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface The powerline extender has a management interface to configure all settings. The management interface can be opened on any device that has a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Chrome or Firefox. This chapter is going to give detailed information on what functions the powerline extender has and how to configure them.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 3. 1. Management Interface 3. 1. 1. Login There are two methods to log into the management interface, each with a different hardware connection type. Method 1: Wireless Login Follow the steps below: 1. Connect your device to the powerline extender wirelessly. 2. Launch a web browser and type in http://tplinkplc.net to open the management interface. 3. Enter admin (the default username and password) for both username and password.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 2. Follow instructions on the page to set a new username and password. A strong password should be at least 8 or more characters in length, combining uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuations. 3. Click Save to make the settings effective. 3. 2. Manage Powerline Network A powerline network is formed of powerline devices, including adapters and extenders.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 3. Click the add icon and enter the Powerline Key of the device you want to add. The Powerline Key contains 16 capital letters, formed like XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. It is printed on the back of the powerline device. 4. Click Add to add the device. 3. 2. 2. Change Powerline Network Name You can change the extender’s powerline network name to add it to or remove it from a powerline network. Follow the steps below to change the name. 1.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface powerline extenders on the same powerline network whose Wi-Fi Move feature is also enabled. Follow the Steps below to enable Wi-Fi Move feature: 1. Connect to the powerline extender wirelessly. Visit http://tplinkplc.net, and log in with the password you set for the extender. 2. Go to Wireless > Wi-Fi Move. 3. Toggle On to enable the feature.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 6. Press the WPS button on your router. WAN WPS WPS 7. Within two minutes, press the Wi-Fi button on the side panel of the extender. Wi-Fi LED Pair Done! When the corresponding Wi-Fi LED blinks quickly for 3 seconds and then stays on. It’s done! 3. 5. Wireless Network 3. 5. 1. Customize Wireless Settings The powerline extender’s wireless network name (SSID) and password, and security option are preset in the factory.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface To enable or disable the wireless function: Click 2.4GHz or 5GHz, then enable the wireless radio of this band. Deselect the box to disable wireless function. If disabled, all wireless settings of the corresponding band will be ineffective. To change the wireless network name (SSID) and wireless password: The default SSID is TP-LINK_XXXX for 2.4GHz network and TP-LINK_XXXX_5G for 5GHz network, and the default password is 12345670.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface Security: Select an option from the Security drop-down list. The extender provides four options, None, WPA/WPA2 Personal (Recommended), WPA/WPA2 Enterprise, WEP. WPA2 uses the newest standard and the security level is the highest. We recommend you don’t change the default settings unless necessary. Mode: Select the desired mode. • 802.11n only: Select only if all of your wireless clients are 802.11n devices. • 802.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 1. Connect to the powerline extender wirelessly. Visit http://tplinkplc.net, and log in with the password you set for the extender. 2. Go to Wireless > Clients page. 3. Now you can view the detailed information, including MAC address, connected wireless band, security option as well as the packets transmitted. Tips: You can also see the wireless details by clicking the wireless clients icon on Status> Wireless Clients. 3. 6.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 6. Click Enable this entry to make it effective. 7. Click OK to save the settings. Done! 3. 7. Now your LEDs will be turned off automatically at 00:00 and turned on at 7:00am the next morning. Schedule Your Wireless Function I want to: Automatically turn off my wireless network (both 2.4GHz and 5GHz) at times when I do not need the wireless connection. For example, I want to turn them off from 00:00am to 7:00am.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 3. Toggle On to enable the Wi-Fi Scheduler. If you are prompted like the following picture, click Continue. 4. Check the box of Do not turn off Wi-Fi while clients are connected to it. 5. Click Add to add an entry. 6. Choose 00:00 and 7:00 from the drop-down list. Check all boxes from Sunday to Saturday. Note: Please make sure that the Time Settings are correct before using this function. 7. Click Enable this entry to make it effective.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 8. Click OK to save the settings. Done! Now your Wi-Fi will be automatically turned off at 00:00 and turned on at 7:00am the next morning. Note: The wireless LED (2.4GHz , 5GHz ) will turn off if the corresponding wireless network is disabled. 3. 8. Parental Controls I want to: Control when my children’s wireless devices can access the Internet.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 4. Click Add. 5. Click View Existing Devices, and select the device to be controlled. Or, enter the Device Name and MAC Address manually. 6. Click the icon to set the Internet Access Time. Drag the cursor over the appropriate cell(s) and click OK. Note: Please make sure that the Time is correct before using this function. 7. Enter a Description for the entry. 8. Click Enable this entry to make it effective. 9. Click OK to save the settings.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface Done! 3. 9. Now you can control when your children can access the Internet according to your needs. Guest Network I want to: Create a separate network for my guests, providing Internet access for them while at the same time limit the network authorities for guests to ensure network security and privacy. How can I do that? 1. Connect to the powerline extender wirelessly. Visit http:// tplinkplc.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface To change the guest network name (SSID) and password: The default SSID is TP-LINK_GUEST_XXXX for 2.4GHz guest network and TP-LINK_GUEST_XXXX_5G for 5GHz guest network, and the default password is 12345670. You can change the default ones by directly entering new ones in the field. SSID is up to 32 characters, and the value in both SSID and password is case-sensitive. Done! Now you can tell your guests to connect to the guest network you created. 3. 10.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 5. Click Add under Device List to add devices to the list. 6. Click View Devices to see how many devices are now connected to the network. Click Choose to choose a device. You can also enter in the MAC address manually. 7. Give a description of the entry here. (Optional) 8. Click Enable this entry to make this entry effective. 9. Click Ok to save the settings. Done! Now MAC Filtering is implemented to protect your wireless network.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 3. 11. Administration 3. 11. 1. LAN IP Address Follow the steps below to configure LAN settings of the extender. Go to Device Settings > LAN Settings. LAN Type: Select Dynamic IP to have your extender automatically obtain IP Address from the main router. Select Static IP to manually configure the LAN parameters. IP Address: The IP address of the powerline extender. Subnet Mask: The subnet mask associated with IP address.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface To automatically synchronize the time: 1. Select your local Time Zone from the drop-down menu. 2. In the NTP Server I field, enter the IP address or domain name of your desired NTP Server. (Optional) 3. In the NTP Server II field, enter the IP address or domain name of the second NTP Server. (Optional) 4. Click Get GMT. To manually set the date and time: 1. In the Time Settings field, select your local Time Zone. 2. Enter the current Date. 3.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 3. Select the correct End date and time when daylight saving time ends at your local time zone. 4. Click Save. 3. 11. 3. Upgrade the Firmware TP-LINK is dedicated to improving and richening the product features, giving you a better network experience. We will release the latest firmware at TP-LINK official website, you can download the latest firmware file from our website: www.tp-link.com and upgrade the firmware to the latest version. 1.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 3. Click Backup to save a copy of the current settings to your local computer. A config. bin file will be stored to your computer. To restore configuration settings: 1. Connect to the powerline extender wirelessly. Visit http://tplinkplc.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the extender. 2. Go to System Tools > Backup & Restore page. 3. Click Browse to locate the backup configuration file stored on your computer, and click Restore.
Chapter 3 Configuring via Web Management Interface 3. 11. 5. System Log When the extender does not work properly, you can save the system log and send it to the technical support for troubleshooting. Follow the steps below to save the system log: 1. Connect to the powerline extender wirelessly. Visit http://tplinkplc.net, and log in with the username and password you set for the extender. 2. Go to System Tools > System Log. 3. Choose the type and level of the system log according to your need. 4.
Appendix A: Specifications Hardware Transmission Speeds Standards and Protocols Powerline: up to 1200 Mbps Ethernet: 10/100/1000 Mbps HomePlug AV, IEEE 1901,IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2.4GHz, IEEE 802.11a/ac 5GHz Interface 3 * Built-in Ethernet Port Plug Type UK Access Methods IGMP Power Consumption Range Compatibility CSMA/CA channel-access schemes IGMP v1/v2/v3 Maximum: 10.
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CE Mark Warning This is a class B product. In a domestic environment, this product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures. RF Exposure Information This device meets the EU requirements (1999/5/EC Article 3.1a) on the limitation of exposure of the general public to electromagnetic fields by way of health protection. The device complies with RF specifications when the device used at 20 cm from your body. National Restrictions Restricted to indoor use.
TP-LINK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY For the following equipment: Product Description: AV1200 Gigabit Powerline ac Wi-Fi Extender Model No.
