One thing to mention is that these are pretty big. I was ready to have to download drivers based on what others have said in their review, but in my case they were totally plug and play - could not have been easier.
Tp link wireless utility vs windows wireless utility install#
I did not install any of the Archer software or drivers at all, I am just using whatever Windows 10 setup for them. And I'm getting speeds about 10% above what my ISP quotes, so really happy with the speeds I'm getting on both bands. Both are working flawlessly, no drop outs, no need to reset or anything like that. I have one of them on 5GHz (the computer next to the router) and the other on 2.4GHz (the one farthest from the router). Again I think that maybe since I waited to upgrade Windows until mid April that they worked out the previous issues people were having.
I did nothing other than eject the previous wifi adapter using the Windows eject hardware icon, then installed the new Archer T4U and Windows did the rest. In my case though, they were both totally plug and play with Windows 10. I ended up buying this one due to the features and reviews, though was a little perplexed by some of the negative reviews.
I already have an Archer / TP-Link C9 router, so I looked into Archer / TP-Link wifi adapters since I have been very pleased with the C9. I previously was using ancient Medialink wifi adapters and after doing a little research found that they were not going to cut it with Win 10.
I had no issues upgrading either of my PC's to Win 10 other than the wifi went wonky on both after completing the installs. One note of interest - I did the Win 10 upgrades in mid-April 2016, so I think the Win 10 changeover has already worked through many of the issues others have noted from older installs. They are working great for me! I say "they" since I bought 2 of these, one for each of my PC's that I recently upgraded from Windows 7 to 10.