WPA4220 Extender labelling and device ID
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I have the TL WPA4220Kit with four range extenders - all working with the occassional glitch.
My query concerns the labelling of the devices. Three of the extenders had labels showing a Device ID that differed from that displayed when I viewed the network using the TP-Link PLC Utility. The difference was in the last character of the four character ID, although one had all four characters different.
The labels are stuck to the bottom of the devices where they cannot be seen without removing the devices from their sockets.
It all seems crazy to me - surely these labels should be accurate and clearly visible.
The other TP-link Utility - 'powerline scan' seems pretty useless and only shows three of my five devices. They are only identified by their MAC which again is labelled on the bottom of the device and might well be as inaccurate as the Device ID.
When there is a power cut all the devices have to be unplugged and plugged back in again, otherwise random comms faults occur with both wireless and ethernet services.
@johnnyC Thankyou for your response to my post.
The Extenders are all connected through my household electricity wiring via 13A sockets.
I hereby attach a screenshot of the TP-link utility network display.
I have amended the device names by inserting a preceding location to the original device name as displayed by TP-Link utility.
Here is an image of one of the device labels showing a six character label when the utility only shows the last four:
On another device I have been confused by the MAC address which shows a different final character - apologies if this is not relevant.
Thank you for explaining the feature of the powerline scan untility being restricted to wifi function extenders. All four of my extenders have wifi function but the scan only detects three:
sorry but, I am unable to turn off the power at presently. I will carry out the test next week when it will be appropriate to do so.
Regards
JohnnyC