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★★★★★
(EDIT) Make sure you use the Broadcom drivers, fantastic card!
(This review is for the Archer T6E/AC1300 PCIE card)
This is a great card! Coming from an N600 Netgear USB that would drop connection, despite me being well within range, every couple of minutes and then spit out DNS errors this was a huge step up!
I plugged it into my motherboard, booted it up, installed the latest drivers. Now you see... that's a problem. The 2016 drivers were extremely buggy, the card would randomly cut out connection every few minutes like my Netgear. But after going back to the 2015 drivers (V1_151105) it has been FANTASTIC.
I game and stream HD content and this hasn't let me down thus far, first day having it, will edit later on as time goes on.
EDIT 06/22/2018: Still a complete rock to this day. The only issue I've had is Windows Update causing the driver for the wireless card to crash when downloading a list of packets so large it literally caused Windows to have a mild heart attack, freeze, and kill the running driver for the wireless card. It was as simple as going to gpedit.msc and killing off Windows Update and the problem hasn't happened since.
Update 10/13/2018: Still an absolute rock. Love it.
Update 04/27/2019: I found the TP-link drivers to be unstable when downloading large game files. Turns out the T6E uses a Broadcom BCM4360 chip and the actual drivers for the chip are way more stable, and the range increases pretty significantly with this driver. All that's needed is to search for the drivers, download the windows 10 variant, unzip the folder. After the files are unzipped, uninstall the AC1300 in Device Manager (do advanced uninstall so previous drivers are deleted), reboot, and when the device pops up as an unknown device, choose to search for your own drivers on your machine and select the file labeled "64" in the broadcom drivers that were unzipped. After that, you'll actually see a jump in download speed and a drop in ping.
I just wish TP-link did a better job with drivers.
April 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase