Until very recently, the AV2000 appeared to suffer from quite immature firmware. So did the AV1200, but they're past that now. Sadly, TP-Link more often than not forget to bring newer firmware...

In my house, line rate hovers at around 400 mbits with AV1200 everything. I do have a much better setup though, with the central PLC feed being a 3-phase unit right there in the fusebox, a Devolo...

From TP-Link, I'd go with 8030P V2. Other vendors are much more quick with firmware updates though - and much less quick in abandoning "older" products and product versions.

Yes, if you have router and access point(s) all sharing the same Mesh technology approach, then your devices will roam the network much more smoothly. There is no indication from TP-Link as to if and...

V1 and V2 are different versions of the hardware, and either needs their specific firmware. The latest firmware release for V1 is ancient and also not exactly good. While there has been a beta...

Unless you have brandnew "mesh" technology WLAN (you don't), it is up to the client device if and when it switches from one access point to the other. Yes, smartphones tend to cling to a weak signal...