Disabling wifi on a unit

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Disabling wifi on a unit
Disabling wifi on a unit
2020-04-19 08:09:54

I've recently decided to setup a Powerline Network at home. I've done a bunch of research and opted for TP-Link's offerings.
I'm setting up a fairly large home network, mostly non-wifi, with different requirements at most of the "output" nodes.

 

I have several different questions, which aren't tied to specific models.

 

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For reasons that aren't relevant to the question, I regularly need to be able to entirely disable and later re-enable the whole wifi network. The router has a simple button to toggle this.

 

Is it possible to disable the wifi output of Powerline units that support wifi? (whilst retaining the ethernet output, naturally)

 

Assuming yes, then what options are available to do this?

  • Is there a physical button on the unit to achieve this?
  • Is it possible from the control App?
  • Is it possible to do it over a network commandline (e.g. telnet or similar)
  • Will the Wifi Sync functionality honour this? (i.e. if I have the wifi PL unit set up to sync with the router's WiFi AP, and then I disable the wifi on the router, will the PL unit disable *its* wifi output?)
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Re:Disabling wifi on a unit
2020-04-23 08:44:19

@Brondahl 

 

Dear customer

 

I have replied you a few minutes ago on another thread.

 

Our wireless capable powerline devices indeed have the function of disabling WiFi.

The TL-WPA8630P model has a wifi button, which allows to you disable or enable wifi broadcasting.

 

For TL-WPA4220: you could disable the wireless boradcasting fromt he TL-WPA4220's web management interface.

 

Thanks.

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