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It did work really well, but read this if you are having issues.
It is good, I now have a reliable connection at a good speed. I am achieving near and up to my advertised internet speed of 250Mbps (see photo). It was plug and play out of the box and Windows 10 64-bit picked it up, I installed the driver from TP-Link support site, but it didn't seem like there was much difference between it and the driver Windows picked.
Now, I did start having issues 20 minutes after connecting it, dropped connection and refusal to reconnect on the 5G band, over and over again even after power cycling it and rebooting. This seems like a common issue with these, but I can't really blame the adapter at this point. You need to disable ALL power management features for your USB ports, or at least the one the TP-Link is connected to, this includes the "USB selective suspend" in the power management settings in the Control Panel, and uncheck the "allow windows to turn off to save energy" (or something to that effect) in the Device Manager, you must uncheck this feature in the properties of both the TP-Link adapter and the USB Root Hubs under the Universal Serial Bus Controllers. The USB Root Hub properties is important as it appears to supersede even the "Selective Suspend" option being disabled. This appears to have worked and it is working great now. It seems if Windows suspends the adapter it doesn't power back up correctly and turns it into a confused mess.
10-1-16 - Update. Became a non-functonal, unstable, constantly disconnecting mess after the last Windows 10 major update, was unfixable. After the trouble I've gone through already just to make it run stable and maintain connection, not again, I don't have time for this. TP Link needs to fix their hardware to at least fool Windows into not putting it into suspend mode and be more resilient with Windows updates. I've used USB wireless adapters before, and never had such dumb thing's like this occur.
June 2016 · Electronics · verified purchase