TP-Link USB WiFi 6 Adapter for Desktop PC,AX1800 Dual Band WiFi Antenna

Here's my situation. I live in a home with 2 stories and have combating my network issues for months. Due to the configuration and number of devices/components, I had to place my broadband modem/router upstairs while my home office is in a downstairs room. Aside from running my own cabling in my walls and between floors, I've tried every solution to try & get satisfactory Ethernet connection in that office. In my original solution, I opted to go for Powerline AV but no matter which adapter I used (I used both Netgear and TP-LINK brands), I cannot get a good enough speed to the office. What's strange though is that under other outlets in the house, I can get a good connection. I'm not an electrician, so I'm not sure why my Powerline adapters simply just stink in the home office room. Documenting the speeds, both Powerline adapters would at most, get slightly over 1Mbit (yes, just ONE) speed to my PC. This is 100x less than your standard 100Mbit Ethernet connection. On top of that, my Home Internet via Comcast is 50Mbit. Can you imagine a speed slower than a T1 between devices in your home? Yes, it was that terrible. So I opted for the next logical solution. Using a wireless USB NIC. A friend of mine let me borrow his adapter but I could only pull about 20Mbit from my wireless router to my office PC. Even my work Lenovo laptop and my speeds would be roughly in the 20Mbit to 25Mbit range (connection speed was just good, floating between 3 and 4 bars according to Windows). Thinking about it long and hard, I finally decided to try a high gain adapter. I remember using high gain antennas and adapters for wirelessa couple years ago in my previous job and I knew after about a decade, there should be a nice niche consumer market for these devices. Lo and behold, I found this adapter on Amazon. The end result? Amazing. My connection speed is considered "excellent" via Windows and the RSSI (received signal strength indication) sits at in the -60s (which is a good signal). When performing a speed test w/ my Internet, I easily hit the max 50Mbit. Finally I can download at the speed in which I pay for!! Transferring between my home office PC to a laptop PC using 802.11g achieved expected results as well. No more slow-mo WiFi. The *ONLY* caveat I have with this adapter is that it operates only on the 2.4GHz spectrum of 802.11n. Without going into too much detail, the "best" 802.11n networks utilize the 5GHz space due to the availability of non-overlapping channels. With 2.4GHz networking, you only have 3 non-overlapping channels in that spectrum. Since 802.11n works by combining multiple channels, you only really have a limited number of channels to work with. Bottom line is that if you live in an apartment building or some close quarters where other wireless routers exist, you could get some interference if you try to use 802.11n over 2.4GHz. Luckily for me, my neighbors are all using the same 2.4GHz channel, so I haven't run into any problems (yet). Highly recommended adapter for those wanting INSANE range for a CHEAP price.

This thing is amazing! I honestly hadn't expected much, but was VERY pleasantly surprised. We have a wifi network in our house. It works well, except for my wife's computer which is only about 60 feet from our router, but with three walls between the router and her computer. It would hang up when loading websites, and sometimes would never load the page at all. I blamed the problem on the computer or browser; probably the computer, as I was not having a problem with mine, nor did she if she moved it much closer to the router. This antenna arrived about a week ago, so we've had plenty of time to test it. Installation was simple. Plug the unit in, run the enclosed CD, click on to the network, enter the pass code, and that was it. My wife's computer problems are gone! All websites snap right up. Not one problem with any of them. We have a custom program on her computer that we use to run our business. Running it on my computer from hers, over the network was always slower than running it on her computer. That was to be expected. Now it runs about 50% faster across the network. I installed this antenna on my computer (Windows 8.1) just to see what would happen. Amazingly, it sped page loads up dramatically, even though I'm within about 30 feet of the router (albeit the signal still has to go through two walls), and did not have nearly as many problems as she did. I have just ordered a second one to go on my computer for that reason, and because I expect our in-house program will run even faster across the network using one on each computer. I will update this review after I find out. Given the results with this antenna on our two computers, I enthusiastically recommend it so anyone who suspects a internet connection problem, even if it's only a small one. I simply cannot believe the results, especially at this price. Amazing! 01/15/15: I received my second antenna about a week ago. As expected (hopes for!), it did speed interaction across the network between our computers. No more hung pages on the internet. I can't wait to see how it works in hotels when we travel.

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.

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!

The older house I'm renting in is not equipped with Ethernet ports anywhere; in fact, half the power outlets are still 2 prong ungrounded ones. I needed an adapter for my desktop to pick up the wifi so I could play video games. This one had good reviews for the price, and it handled the speeds I need. I've had it several months, plugged into a desktop on the second floor of a wooden house where my room is also 70 lateral feet away from the source of the wifi. This adapter still easily picks up the signal and doesn't drop it. Pros: - 1.8 GBps support fast enough for true hi-def streaming (if your internet supports it) - standalone antennas boost signal gain relative to having them inside a flat shell - antennae can be moved around to help improve signal gain - comes with an extender cable so it can be put up on a shelf, a desk, on top of the PC, so it can access signal easier Cons: - it claims plug and play support on Windows 11, but I had to go to the TP-Link website and download the drivers on my laptop and then move them over to my desktop before it works Not a con, but a note: the cable it comes with is 3 ft in length and is USB Micro-B, the kind with the second little bump and extra pins. Not standard USB Micro that was common in older smartphones and in some external drives. (see picture) This means if you wanted to get an even longer one to put the adapter on a higher shelf, you'll need to ensure you're getting a USB 3.0 or 3.1 micro-B cable. Overall, this is a solid adapter once it's set up that I haven't had problems with. There's now 2 in the house supporting 2 desktops, one has held up 18 months and one has held up for 2.

I’m really impressed with the TP-Link Archer TX20U Plus WiFi 6 USB Adapter. Setting it up on my Windows 10 PC was quick and painless—just plug it in, install the driver, and I was connected within minutes. The biggest difference I noticed right away was the speed and stability. My connection is now much faster and more consistent, even when I’m farther from the router. The dual-band support (2.4GHz and 5GHz) really helps balance performance depending on what I’m doing, whether it’s streaming, gaming, or browsing.

I'm am quite pleased with this product as it meets my criteria quite well. I was looking for an adapter for my home office so that I had a nice quick link to my home server, and to make use of my external bandwidth (which has exceed the speed of my g network for the first time ever!). My criteria 1) I did not care about size as I was really only using it in this one location 2) I wanted to get a maximum speed out of my link 3) The device needed to be relatively easy to set up with the 3.0+ kernels as well as some older ones (one pc srunning ubuntu 10.04). I first got the Asus n-13 thinking naively that it would "work" best with my asus n-16 router and they stated linux support. Unfortunately asus chose another chip for their newer dongles so I was out of luck in 10.04 (it would freeze my desktop on removal as well 0 nice). That was quickly returned and I gave this a try because it has an atheros chip reported as well supported under Linux (via the ath9k_htc module) The model I received was the TL-WN822N ver 2.0. It worked out of the box with 64 and 32-bit ubuntu 12.04 and 64-bit 10.04. Windows support seems strong though I did not test that yet. I get a "reported" connection speed of 300 Mbit/s to my asus n-16 router at about 40 feet, one floor and two walls. The reported speed is not so useful. I used iperf to a both a wired network machine and to my router consistently shows about a 194Mbit/s to 90 Mbit/s throughout the day without anyone using the wifi. In practical terms its about 19.4MBytes/s to 10.3 MBytes/s which slightly exceeds my write speed on my old server external drives so it works great for me. I highly recommend this adapter! Notes: iperf is a network tool which is useful to test raw network speeds while avoiding potential bottle necks such as harddrives or the protocol you are using to transfer a file. It works on all major OS's (and there is a great android version too). see [...] for more info on how it works. To take full advantage of the N wifi spec you need either a dual band router and adapter and use a chunk of that spectrum (this one is not 5Ghz capable) or set the channel width to 40 Mhz. The latter is not very nice to do if you have a lot of neighbours nearby (like in a highrise condo). I also run the router for n clients only (I have an older g router to handle those clients). More info on bands here: [...] Also remember to get N speeds you need to use wpa2 with AES or nothing at all - WPA1 or wep slow it down to g speeds.

Very disappointed in TP-link. When I initially got this TP-Link WiFi 6 USB Adapter, I was hoping to solve connective issues I was having with my PCI wifi card. Only to discover this product came with it's own issues. After initial setup and ensuring drivers were up to date. I began experience a complete shutdown of ALL my USB ports. When removed from the PC these issues stopped. So I did a little research and came across quite a few people experiencing the exact same issues. One person seems to have resolved the issues by doing the following in Device Manager: On Power Management, disable "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" to prevent windows from disconnecting the usb device. Disable Roaming sensitivity Disable 2.4G wireless mode USB switch mode = USB 3.0 5G wireless mode = IEEE 802a/n/ac/ax EnableAdaptivity = Disable This solved the problem for me and many others. Oddly this was a year old conversation I found. It is a little disconcerting that TP-link did not resolve this in their driver updates or at least include this information in their installation information. Once the issue was resolved I am getting the 300 Mbps down and up that I have paid for with my ISP. Now that it is doing what it was intended for, I would say it is a great value. This would not have been particularly useful, even excruciatingly frustrating to someone less resourceful.

El tiempo de recepción menor al estimado,así que perfecto por me urgía bastante. Embalado y estado del pedido perfecto también. Muy pequeño cabe el la palma de la mano, el cable parece resistente. La instalación es muy sencilla. incluye un mini CD con los drivers y en menos de 2 minutos está funcionando. Lo he instalado y probado en un portátil HP en otro Samsung y en un ordenador sobremesa en el que finalmente se ha quedado fijo. En todos los casos ha sido instalado en Windows 7. Lo quería por que el router me quedaba bastante lejos como para tirar un cable hasta el pc de sobremesa, ya que esté está algo escondido. Desde el primer momento el funcionamiento y el rendimiento perfecto. En los test de velocidad, hechos un sábado por la mañana, obtenía el 100% del servicio que me ofrece ONO: 50 mbps. Realicé una descarga importante de más de 40 gigas en descarga directa de un juego cuando lo instalé hará ya un mes y he de decir que es muy estable y no se me ha colgado en ningún momento. Y he llegado a alcanzar tasas de descarga de mas de 6MB/s lo que me parece increíble con más dispositivos conectados al wifi de casa (2 iphone y 2 ipad obviamente no funcionando a pleno rendimiento a la vez ). El ping también es aceptable, mejor desde luego que el de la tarjeta de mi portátil HP. El resumen muy recomendable. Calidad/precio inmejorable. Estoy por pedir otro para las zonas de la casa con menos cobertura.

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Using since 2 - 3 months working fine with no issues yet. Very good product

Description is pretty accurate. It has been working fine for years, the range however isn't that good.

I am in the building next to my landlord. Prior to getting this device I could only rarely see the wi-fi signal. Now I get a reliable signal. I did have to hang it from my ceiling and made sure the pair of antennae point toward his router.