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This review is specific to the T6E Archer AC1300 model. Comes well packaged and looks really good in black especially if you have a side window on your case, Speeds are phenomenal and this would be perfect if you want to do HD Gaming, Streaming or Video conferencing assuming you have the Router and Broadband connection to match. I bought this for a new computer build and it is true to say like many have mentioned that Windows 10 DOES NOT recognise this out of the box. The first time you turn the machine on (or if you're upgrading an older machine) you will need to download the latest driver from the TP-Link Website.
As soon as you download and install the driver windows recognises the wi-fi card and available networks should start to show up, you may require a system restart. If you can't plug your PC into the router directly via Ethernet (so you can download the driver) then i advise you download the driver to a USB stick prior to installing this card in your machine. The driver can be found at the TP-Link site, simply type into any web browser your model number and it should take you there. The Driver you require is called 'Archer T6EV1151105'. Sadly when i first tried to post this review i was sent an email stating i was not allowed to post a direct link to the driver. VERDICT: It looks great and performs even better, it makes no noise as it doesn't have any moving parts, nor is there any coil whine from the circuitry.
If you are installing this into a Windows 10 machine AFTER MAY 2018 then you will need to install the driver i mention above and the device should work fine. I suspect many people buying this product didn't know about the driver requirement and have therefore returned them. TP-Link should make this clearer in their sales literature to avoid confusion and frustration but all it needs is the driver and it should work fine as it did in my case. I'm therefore going to RECOMMEND this product.
Just be aware of the driver issue before you buy! This review is specific to the T6E Archer AC1300 model. Comes well packaged and looks really good in black especially if you have a side window on your case, Speeds are phenomenal and this would be perfect if you want to do HD Gaming, Streaming or Video conferencing assuming you have the Router and Broadband connection to match.
I bought this for a new computer build and it is true to say like many have mentioned that Windows 10 DOES NOT recognise this out of the box. The first time you turn the machine on (or if you're upgrading an older machine) you will need to download the latest driver from the TP-Link Website. As soon as you download and install the driver windows recognises the wi-fi card and available networks should start to show up, you may require a system restart.
If you can't plug your PC into the router directly via Ethernet (so you can download the driver) then i advise you download the driver to a USB stick prior to installing this card in your machine. The driver can be found at the TP-Link site, simply type into any web browser your model number and it should take you there. The Driver you require is called 'Archer T6EV1151105'.
Sadly when i first tried to post this review i was sent an email stating i was not allowed to post a direct link to the driver. VERDICT: It looks great and performs even better, it makes no noise as it doesn't have any moving parts, nor is there any coil whine from the circuitry. If you are installing this into a Windows 10 machine AFTER MAY 2018 then you will need to install the driver i mention above and the device should work fine. I suspect many people buying this product didn't know about the driver requirement and have therefore returned them.
TP-Link should make this clearer in their sales literature to avoid confusion and frustration but all it needs is the driver and it should work fine as it did in my case. I'm therefore going to RECOMMEND this product. Just be aware of the driver issue before you buy! If you want this to run properly on windows 10 64bit, do not use the manufacturers drivers. With manufacturers drivers, the card would 'die slowly' when using all the bandwidth (for example, downloading a 60GB game on steam would stop at the 8GB mark and would only resume if I disabled and enabled WIFI back again). The Archer T9E is a BCM-4360 based card so I strongly advise people to use the Broadcomm BCM-43XX Wireless LAN driver 7.35.333.0 WHQL reference drivers instead (require manual install from Device Manager). Search for 'broadcomwlan7.35.333.0' on google.
These drivers solved all my issues and the card is now working like it should. TLDR: On Windows 10 64bit avoid manufacturers drivers, search 'broadcomwlan7.35.333.0' on google and install these instead. Tell your friends about me:P.
I wanted to upgrade from my TL-WDN 4800 (N900) to a faster one more designed for online gaming / streaming / faster download speeds so I picked this model. I know there have been problems with Windows 10 with these line of models and I did everything in the instructions and installed the lastest drivers.
I had to do a bit of tweaking with my router ( turning it on and off) and having to manually give my 5G address but once I managed to get it working, it has been absolutely SUPERB so far. (Playing rocket league online for example right now). Personally I would have got the T8E or T9E which are the upgraded and a slightly faster version of this but I heard from reviews that those 8 and 9 versions had much more problems with windows 10 then this one so thought I wouldn't take the risk. Right now this version is doing the job I want it to do and I am very happy with my purchase so far. Edits will be made in the future if anything changes. Sidenote: I would obvoisly use a wired connection but in my circumstances I have my computer upstairs away from router which is downstairs.
Contrary to previous reviews, this installs 'out of the box' with windows 10, no need to download and install the drivers separately. Bought two of these back in 2016, dug one out of an old dell 780 to give wifi capability to a new home built desktop. Downloaded win 10 from MS site mid August 2018, installed on new desktop, installed wifi card, booted up and win found the card and automatically installed drivers. No need to do anything. Note - also works with linux, bought originally for an old dell 780 running linux mint 17.3. I've been using this for about a year now.
Before I was running an extremely long ethernet cable from my bedroom to my router in my living room. Obviously, it wasn't practical in the long term. Signal strength is pretty good. Because it's dual band, it can connect to either my AC signal or my N signal.
My router is just below my bedroom. The problem with AC is even though it's faster, the signal drops off a lot quicker than N. I still max out my 70mb/s broadband connection, however. Installation was easy and Windows detected it straight away.
The only slight negative is that in the first few months of having it, roughly once a week, it was getting disconnected from the router and I had to reset the adaptor for it to connect again. It hasn't done this to me in months though. Arrived quickly, opened box (usual cardboard box where tabs lock and you end up ripping) and examined item. Now I have a v1 that has a metal plate covering the WiFi chip - this one didn't and I could see it did not, so you could see all the exposed components and screen printed on the circuit board is v2. Specifically bought this for running in a pfsense firewall/router box. Pfsense would not detect it at all.
So I swapped it out for the v1 (running in an Ubuntu linux server) and the v1 was detected - why? Because it is an Atheros chip set.
So if you want to run a wireless access point in pfsense the v1 does the trick and does it well. The v2 does not, but will work well with linux. Some stability problems occurred with the default Windows 8.1 Drivers that Microsoft decided to use. This resulted in the computer freezing or resetting. Downloaded the latest drivers from TP-Link website and had zero problems since. However because of the initial problems I have deducted a star as really this shouldn't be happening.
One of the main reasons for buying the dual band 450mb version is the 5ghz band that this uses. Previously my son was using a 2.4ghz USB wifi Dongle. My other son is still using his. But because we had so many 2.4Ghz devices on our wifi Network my son streaming HD Youtube videos was causing a problem for everyone else. Including streaming of Netflix over the Chromecast in the Kitchen. (Chromecast can only use the 2.4Ghz channel). I did a speedtest on my sons computer, and it was getting the same speed as my wired ethernet computer.
104Mbits down, and 8Mbits up. With a ping of 9ms. The ping was exceptional in my opinion. Very very good. And this was on the default Virgin Media Super Hub 2.
When I do a file copy on his computer from our local server, it was pulling down around 25-30 MB/s constant, (megaBYTES), which is a lot faster than his previous USB dongle that maxxed out about 8 MB/s and usually around 4-5MB/s on average. A massive improvement. I have asked my son how his Youtube viewing has been since install 3 days ago. And he said it has been great, and that he is able to rewind his youtube videos now without it buffering, and that he is able to watch all his videos in HD. I have also noticed it's improved the remainder of the wifi Network, especially the chromecasts and other 2.4Ghz devices. I will be buying one of my other son as well, to free up the 2.4Ghz network for those devices, and leave the main computers on the 5Ghz network.
Hopefully none of my neighbours will be moving to the 5Ghz channels any time soon, as they seem relatively empty at the moment (having down a wifi analyse of the local environment). I was going to wire the house up with Ethernet, but this device will do for now.
As my son is able to download at the maximum speed our Internet runs at, and that's all you can ask for really. I used to use a USB 300MBPS adapter, which would perform okay for general browsing. As a gamer, and recently spending a lot of money building a new computer for gaming, I wanted to be able to play online games without having latency issues. I recently upgraded my broadband to this new super duper fibre, and this wireless card compliments it.
My ping is about 50, and im on the outer range of the router! There are 3 antennes provided and these can be moved around to get the best signal. Installation is really easy.
(With the computer off) Plug the card into the PCI-E slot, close your case, turn on the computer, and connect to your router. Its as easy as that. Then, you can go to TP-LINK's website, and download the latest drivers for it, meaning you get the best performance. The drivers provided are as good as using the card without the drivers, so you may as well save the time. All in all this is a definate purchase for anyone needing a good wireless card, so go on, hit the buy button!
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