29 de julio de 2026

Great replacement adapter, easy to setup!

The wifi adapter went out in an old computer. This adapter works so much better. The signal is stronger. Easy to setup and comes with everything you need for installation. Great value for the money. Highly recommended!

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Jonathan

It lowered my ping and improved my speed

This is exactly as advertised. I couldn't enjoy multiplayer games on my laptop because my ping connection was not enjoyable. My speed was ok at 50-90 Mbps but my ping was so high at 50-100 ping. When i connected this to my laptop My ping lowered to 20 and my speed was consitently at 120+ Mbps. For me this was so much better because my router is pretty far from my room and i have 7 people in the house including me. Overall this really helped. I have been using it for a while now like 3 weeks before writing this review,Ver más

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Disconnects are too frequent, requiring driver reinstall to fix the issue

Bought this adapter since moving to my new house. My previous house was wired pretty heavily so I didn't have to rely on wifi. I got this adapter in hopes that I wouldn't have to cable much, since wifi works for all other devices in the house.At first everything seemed fine. I've used this adapter for my PC for ~4 months now, but over the last week, the disconnects started happening.When first connecting the device to my PC, it connects as a USB drive, and the install app for the driver is on the unit. This is actually pretty brilliant, since having to download a driver on a PC that doesn't have a network card can be challenging, if not impossible, unless you have another PC handy. The install goes really quick and installs v2.0.2.0 of the driver.The PC that I installed this on is ~8 feet from the wifi router. Signal is good between the unit and the router...when it's connected. The challenge I've had is that recently, the unit frequently just disappears from my devices. Occasionally, just unplugging and replugging the device gets it to show up and reconnect, but more often, I have to completely uninstall the driver, reboot my PC, reinstall the driver, then reconnect the adapter to my wifi.I've tried changing some adapter settings related to power management and that doesn't seem to make any difference. I tried different driver versions from the TP-Link support site, and I get the same behavior. I was having an even odder issue where when i tried to do any kind of high-bandwidth usage, like transferring files, or using a remote desktop tool (TightVNC), that would cause the adapter to just disappear again. That seems to have stopped after multiple reinstalls, but the disconnects continue.I've read a number of posts in forums about having to change a number of different settings on my wifi router, but to be honest, I shouldn't have to do that. I've got ~40 devices connected in my house, from smarthubs, to Amazon FireTV devices, to laptops and PCs, and a couple of Raspberry Pi units, and NONE of them required any changes on the router side.I've also seen some people compliment the "speed" of this device, but I'm not impressed. I have gigabit fiber internet, so I am not limited by bandwidth. Using other wireless devices in the house, I average ~400+Mbps download and ~330Mbps upload. The attached screenshot shows what I get when I run this with the TP-Link adapter. I ran the test several times just to make sure it wasn't an issue with any single test and the results average right around this 231Mbps mark download. The upload speed is on par with the other devices, but the download speed is just horrible, by comparison. This is really secondary to the disconnect issue though. 230Mbps isn't bad, in general, for most tasks, including streaming, so it's just by comparison to other devices that the lack of throughput shows.Lesson learned and money wasted. Still haven't decided whether to purchase another wireless adapter or to go ahead and just run the cable, but I wanted to make sure to warn others about the frequent disconnects. That has been a major pain in the butt. It's quite possible that I just got a flaky unit, but just know that this is an issue.Ver más

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Eduardo Fernandez

9 de enero de 2026

Finicky USB3 interface - Careful with Beta device driver

I had another TP-Link PCIe card in the computer that had to be removed to upgrade the video card. That PCIe adapter worked flawlessly. This USB3 is giving me 300Mbps+ (I have 1 Gbps Internet). BE VERY CAREFUL UPDATING DEVICE DRIVERS. The latest available Beta driver completely killed the device. The hardware is not turning on at all. I could not uninstall the Beta driver or roll it back to the previous driver in Device Manager, not even with the TP Tech Support. I just paid $17 to ship it to CA after wasting 2 hours of troubleshooting with Tech Support. Very disappointing. While troubleshooting on my own with AI, I learned that the inability to uninstall or roll back the driver is a known issue with this device. TP Link will take 3-5 business days to ship me a replacement, so this is a 3-week process.Use a powered USB3 Hub to connect this adapter to the PC. USB3 hard drives tend to disappear in W11. It is a question of power drawn from the WiFi adapter and bandwidth. Use a 10 Gbps USB3 port, if you have one.APRIL UPDATE - The factory-repaired unit worked. HOWEVER (1) The box states the driver is preinstalled; it was NOT, I had to download it from the TP-Link site. I also DID NOT use the Beta driver that killed the original unit. Once I installed the driver, the unit came back to life. Beware of that Beta driver!Ver más

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ScottHW

21 de julio de 2026

Can be flaky if not close to router

I connected it o my Dell PC running Windows 11. It works for a while, then drops connection and the only way to reconnect is to reboot the PC. Then the cycle starts all over. It will work for maybe 30 minutes max then drops again, forcing me to reboot again.Update: I changed from 2 to 4 stars; when I elevated the device several feet higher, it works much better.Ver más

Amazon Customer

27 de marzo de 2026

Installation was easy. Good value for what you get.

Driver install came preloaded. Installation was easy. The cable that came with it is super robust. It probably weighs more than the device itself which compromises the stability of the base. I did notice the connection issues I saw in other reviews but believe that that's cable related not device related. Maybe it's a contact patch surface area of the cable but definitely noticed if I wiggled the cable around it would lose connection with Windows. I mounted it on the wall with some velcro command strips. The energy stored in the cable being stored coiled, kept flipping it on it's side. As far as performance goes, adjust the channel settings to match your environment and you'll be good to go. Great value purchase.Ver más

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