Archer T4E

I have recently been using a USB Wi-Fi adaptor which has served its purpose, but it has suffered from Wi-Fi dropouts and is only limited at 300mbps bandwidth. I needed a faster Wi-Fi card so I could stream and download at faster speeds, This TPlink fits the bill. It has solved my Wi-Fi dropouts and gives a steady connection without any data dropouts, web browsing, downloading and basic gaming are a breeze now and I am very happy with this PCI network adaptor. It’s very easy to install fits most PCI express ports on most PCs, my PC is over 8 years I installed this card without any issues. Overall a decent Wi-Fi card.

Problem, old PC that didn’t have access to wifi. Managed to pop open the PC side panel, had to remove a usb card to free the port for this card. No power was required for this card. Side panel on again and turned on PC. WiFi was picked up immediately, selected, and password entered. All this in just under 10 minutes. There was no need to find a driver, no need to upload anything. I am quite techy, and expect a fight with most gadgets. This was a breeze to fit and I am very pleased with the price and ease of installation. Top marks from me.

Installation of the card was simple like any other expansion card, my experience is based on Windows 10 so software issues may not be an issue on newer versions. Straight out of the box the card was detected and installed with no issues and I was able to connect to my network, however every 15 minutes or so it would drop the connection and I would need to reboot the computer to get it reconnected. Checking the device manager I see that the driver windows installed was very out of date (2016) so I downloaded the newest software from the TP Links website, installed the updated driver and I have had no issues since. Updating drivers should be done anyway but I know some people sometimes forget so if you have this card and are having connection drop issues, try updating. Other than that the ecard has been fast and reliable.

Easy to install and works fine with good range and fast speeds. Drivers can be downloaded online and install quickly as well as work ok. Only issue I have is (most likely a driver issue) that they sometimes randomly disconnect from my wifi. This can interrupt gaming or calls but can be fixed by simply reconnecting from the Wi-Fi menu. Please be aware of this before you buy. This card also has a heat sink on it, this greatly improves performance. Overall, a good product that is worth the money.

At first this product was absolutely fine and I had no problems playing my favourite games. It was easy to setup but about 3 weeks after getting it I started experiencing some issues. The wifi kept disconnecting and when I ran windows diagnostics it kept saying that there was a problem with the network adapter. I soon found that one of the antennas had flopped because they are made of a very cheap material so I fixed it and had no problems for a short while. That brings us to yesterday where the wifi kept disconnecting more and more frequently until I could not use it what so ever. As I’m writing this I’m think about setting up an Ethernet cable as it is much easier, faster and cheaper. When I ran windows diagnostics yesterday after each disconnect it kept saying that the default gateway was not available so after looking it up and trying every solution there was I came to the conclusion that it was a bad quality network adapter. I had a very bad experience with this and I think the average rating is very misleading. I would not recommend this product to anyone.

So I have this card a while and it's been stable and usable, however today I decided to upgrade to fibre Internet with a nice new router provided by my isp. Due to restrictions in other countries this card has its 5ghz channels locked so if you find like me you wifi card is slow as it's not connecting to your 5ghz connection you will have to go into your router settings and dictate that the 5ghz band only uses lower number channels I think under 140 or 130! Other wise the card simply won't see or connect via 5ghz and will fall back to 2.4ghz! I have reached out to tp in regards to this and am awaiting a response. Now on my old router I could simply as mentioned change the channel number, however my new router has been locked down by my isp! This has taken many hours of driver updates and scouring the Internet to no avail!!

If you are buying this in the hope of it working in a PC with any version of Windows below Windows 10 you are out of luck! It doesn't. Regardless of the the incorrect description, driver support for this device is only windows 10 32bit, and 11 64bit. I confirmed this with TP-Link support. Amazon's Rufus will tell you drivers for windows 7, 8 etc are on the included mini CD but they aren't and as the device doesn't support earlier Windows versions they aren't available to download either. The information for this device needs correcting. I now have to return it.

10/10 Great high speed internet easy installation and great range and value for money.

Funcionaba bien pero después de dos semanas empezó a fallar y ahora ya no agarra nada la señal. La verdad una gran decepción.

This is a very easy card to install and get running.

تحت التجربة بس لاحظت شيء مهم جدا .. تحميل التعريفات مهمممة مره التعريف لازم يكون V1 وللتأكد من الإصدار اقرأ كرتون العلبة حمل تعريف نسخة 2019 وليس 2023 نسخة 2023 خربت علي الشبكة

Connected to the WIFI but never gained internet access, tried everything, did not work.

This works really well. I feel the heatsink was overkill but it is what it is, Not a bad adapter card and works well.