Archer T6E

Great antenna! I haven’t had any issues with it, and the connection has been smooth and reliable. For the price, it’s amazing, and the speeds are even better than I expected.

I have a home office setup in my garage about 50ft from my WiFi Router that is inside my House. My PC is an HP ProDesk 600 with Windows 10 64bit. My ISP is Spectrum at 200Mbps Download Speed. I originally went with a TP-Link AV600 Powerline Adapter to get an internet signal to my garage. Always assumed a hardwire plugin would be the fastest and surest connection type for my needs. With that setup I had just under 40Mbps D/L. Not very fast but it seemed to work ok but unfortunately would continually lose connection a few times a day and the Powerline adapter would need to be unplugged then plugged back in to reset. I tried different outlets in my garage with similar results. I finally had enough and decided to try this TP-Link AC1300 PCI Express Adapter and all I can say is wow! Took me only 5 minutes to install. I then I installed Broadcom BCM4360 chip Drivers as I heard the drivers from TP-Link website can have issues on some systems. My first speed test showed my speeds increased to around 85Mbps. I was getting one to 2 bars of signal. Since my signal was not consistently great I ordered an Eightwood Dual WIFi Antenna. This has a magnetic base and extends the TP-Link Wifi antenna from my PC to 6.5ft. Once I plugged that in and raised the antenna off the ground as high as I can get. I now am getting 194Mbps! So if you are not in the same room as your router and are not receiving 3 bars. I would recommend to add this antenna extension to get the best signal possible. Made a huge difference for me. The TP-Link AC1300 is now working flawlessly and does not disconnect. Can't believe I am getting this kind of performance from a relatively inexpensive WiFi Card!

So, I have a great little computer. Got it on Amazon also and it worked great for a couple of years. It had a solid state hard drive that died. After days into weeks of hard times without an operating system I made a windows 10 usb boot device and got all hooked up and guess what...no wifi. Screwed around with it for a couple more days and decided to buy this wifi card. Always expecting there to be more problems, so I kept my fingers crossed. It came today and literally five minutes later (ok, maybe 15) I have screaming wifi and I am back in business. Installation went the smoothest I have ever experienced. CD, low profile bracket, the little antennae, everything worked flawlessly. I couldn't be happier. Thanks, TP, you guys are great.

I own multiple computers, running multiple operating systems. Most of these have been comprised of components I've migrated past, over the years, rebuilt into "archival" systems to permit old stuff to be run natively... DOS/Win3x, BeOS 5.0 Pro, Redhat 7.2, Win98SE, WinXP (x32 & x64), Ubuntu, Fedora Core, Haiku, Win7x64, and Win10, all have homes in my collection. I decided that I wanted to move the XP machine to another location in the house, but didn't want to have to run ethernet cable to that location, so I started looking for a Wifi card cable of interfacing properly with modern Wifi networks (Wireless AC mode) which would run under WinXP. This card came to the top of my list pretty quickly. And yes, it does seem to be the best option if you're running an older OS (XP in particular) and want Wifi access. I realize, this is a fairly rare requirement, but if you do have this as a requirement... this is your best bet. That said... it has an issue. This is a DRIVER issue, not a hardware one, mind you, but an issue nevertheless. I've discovered that I need to "reset my wifi" almost every time I cold-boot the system. Because, initially, the drive and OS don't communicate, and I have no wifi connection. I have to let the system fully boot up, and then, "repair" the network connection. Once this is done, the networking works beautifully... full AC1300 speeds, no errors, etc, etc. But that initial negotiation seems to be "problematic." This is a problem, and I really wish that there was some chance of this being fixed... but it's an old product, supporting an old OS, and thus this is just something I have to live with. It's not a HUGE problem... an annoyance, more than anything else. But you'll see this mentioned in quite a few reviews of this card. It's easily dealt with, but it shouldn't be an issue at all. If you pick this card up, you need to bear this in mind. I had an option... settling for the much slower "Wireless N" (there are a lot of "N" cards out there with XP support) or getting the higher throughputs but having to deal with the "bug." I chose the latter. You may prefer a less painful experience and be willing to accept slower speeds. I have had good experience with TPLink devices in the past... repeaters, switches, etc... and this is the first one I've ever had ANY issues with. I attribute the issue to them having insufficient resources to develop support for this "obsolete" operating system... and give them a lot of credit for providing Wireless AC support for XP in the first place! Almost no one else even bothered. If you have XP (for any reason... and yes, there are legitimate reasons to run older OSes, regardless of what anyone might try to tell you)... and want fast wireless data transfers... this is your best... maybe ONLY... real option.

Preso per sostituire la penna WI-FI usb. Ovviamente va molto più veloce. Stabile. Nulla da segnalare. Ma non sono esperto e neanche posso raffrontarlo con prodotti simili. Credo stia mantenendo le "promesse" fatte dalle sue caratteristiche tecniche.

I am very pleased with the performance of this AC1300 (Archer T6E). It thrashed the speed of my previous wifi card. There are two vital points to bear in mind before you start: 1. Go to TP-Link’s website and download the appropriate driver file. In my case for W10, the driver file was: Archer T6E_V2_200508_Win10.zip. You will need to download this file on another computer if the current one has no internet access. Then copy this file to a USB drive and copy it to the current computer. I recommend creating a folder called “TPL” on the Desktop and putting the file in there. Then right click on the file and click on “Extract All”. 2. The second point to bear in mind is that BOTH your antivirus and firewall must be temporarily disconnected otherwise the driver installation will fail! If you use Kaspersky or similar, you need to disable it first and then go to Windows Defender and also disable that. This is because as soon as you disable Kasperky (or Norton or McAfee etc), Windows Defender will automatically replace the main security system. I recommend searching for “TP-Link How to Manually Install Adapters on Windows 10” and follow the instructions. Also search for “Turn off Defender antivirus protection in Windows Security”. I installed the AC1300 and screwed on the 2 antennae and switched on the PC. As per the above instructions, I browsed to: “Archer T6E(EU)_V1&V2_200508_Win10” and clicked on “Update driver software”. I rebooted the PC and then reactivated Kaspersky’s antivirus and firewall. Finally, I entered the wifi code for my network and my internet was restored. *****You may find that, contrary to the generally accepted wisdom of using the 2.4MHz frequency when you have thick walls and floors, that you actually achieve a higher speed using the 5MHz band. Accepted wisdom: “2.4 GHz networks cover a substantially larger range than 5 GHz wireless networks. 5 GHz networks do not penetrate solid objects such as walls and floors nearly as well as do 2.4 GHz signals”. I switched from 2.4MHz to 5MHz and my second (wifi) PC, which is 2 floors below, went from 11Mbps to 46 Mbps, matching the speed of my first PC which is connected via ethernet cable! It’s worth a try. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. EDIT No 5GHz signal on Linux? Then change a router setting. I recently bought this dual-channel TP-Link AC1300 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Wi-Fi Adapter for a desktop PC that sits two floors below my router. The PC was originally using Windows 10 and the 5GHz signal was much stronger then the 2.4MHz one. I then decided to replace W10 with Linux Mint 21.1 MATE. The Broadcom BCM4360 was recognised by Mint and the appropriate driver installed. So far, so good. I then found that only the much weaker 2.4MHz signal was available. I used the excellent Wifi Analyzer (open-source) app on my mobile phone and this registered nothing for the 5GHz band. In contrast the 2.4GHz showed a strong signal. I tried connecting to a “Hidden network” and creating a new network, all to no avail. Finally after much research, I discovered that the Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43a0] (rev 03) does not see 5GHz networks with a high channel number. See confirmed bug #1574196 at Launchpad. To rectify this, it is necessary to login to the router and change the channel for the 5GHz to a lower one. In my ASUS router I went to Advanced Settings > Wireless > Wireless General > select 5GHz band. Then clicked on Control Channel and reduced the figure from 140 maximum to say 36. Clicked on Apply and logged out. The Wifi Analyzer immediately picked up a very strong signal from the 5GHz. All is now well using Linux.

brilliant reception & speed .. wish I had bought it earlier

Been using this PCIe adapter for a couple of days and it's already proven to be superior to the USB adapters I was previously using. I'm getting better speeds consistently and no drop outs at all which is really nice. The only concern I had was installing it into my PC as I have a mini ATX motherboard and a graphics card that was covering my other PCIe slot, but as you can see from the picture it turned out perfectly fine and fits right in. I'm not a very technical person so I can't say anything on optimization, however overall I am very happy with this product and it is worth the price that I paid.

Purchased this card to replace a failing external USB wireless adapter. I have used many TP-Link products over the years. I did my research and I selected the Archer T6E AC1300. The computer is a Dell Optiplex, no problems at all with the install. Operating System is Windows 10 - again no problems at all. This system is in a smaller apartment, and the computer is in the same room as the Shaw Cable modem/router and TV. Connection went by the book, and I have to say... this card is FAST! That old USB wlan adapter was way worse than I thought! With this card, no more dropped connections, no more latency, solid as a rock! Very happy with this card, happy enough that I would buy it again. :) Oh, just general computing a some streaming in this application (no "gaming").