TP-LinkAC1200 PCIe WiFi Card(Archer T4E)- 2.4G/5G Dual Band Wireless PCI Express Adapter, Low Profile, Long Range Beamforming, Heat Sink Technology, Supports Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7/XP

Dropped this card into my Unraid server and it worked right out of the box—no drivers needed, no extra setup. Unraid picked it up immediately, and I was up and running in minutes.I’m using Frontier’s 7 Gbps fiber service, and this card handles it without breaking a sweat. I’m seeing consistent multi-gig speeds and super fast file transfers across my network.

My wife needed some where to backup her phone pictures, so I decided to pull out her old Windows 7 machine, which restricted my choice of wifi cards. This card seemed to fit my requirements, and for $20, price was not an issue.I got the card, installed it in the machine, powered it up, and put the driver disc in the optical drive. The drivers loaded right up, rebooted, and everything was functional without issue.Easy installation, proper functionality, and good wifi speed for this older hardware. This card is an awesome value for the very low price.

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Getting full speeds without any troubles. Worked without any special configuration in windows 11 and arch linux. Only issue is how hot it runs in a normal tower case that doesn't have fans blowing directly past PCIe slots. The MAC/PHY sensors were running at ~75C, which is still safe but not ideal. I ziptied a 40M fan to it to blow air directly onto the heatsink and that dropped temps down to ~55C. That fan has to be powered from the motherboard directly, which is a little annoying to have another thing to disconnect to pull this out, would give it 5 stars if there was a better way to handle direct cooling

I installed this because my motherboard was limited to 1gig speed, but my internet provider is providing 2.1 Gig service. Wow, what a difference. It took about 2 min to install and run the driver... now I am in business with 2 gig speeds and I am ready in case my provider goes even faster. The driver was easy to install with an external DVD drive.

I bought TP-Link's 10gbe (TX401) card on sale after having Google Fiber 8gbit internet installed at my house. I also have a TP-Link AX16000 router, and multiple TP-Link switches. Until this card, I had nothing but great things to say about the value or 'bang for buck' of their products. Still no major issues with their brand, just steer clear of this card.My Win11 gaming machine kept randomly dropping connection under various load. Sometimes 1gbps, sometimes 6gbps. I didn't try it in my NAS so I can't comment.I had an extra Intel X540-T2 in my stash so I decided to put that in and give it a rip. Works flawlessly so I am returning this TP-Link 10gbe card. I tried various cables, drivers, settings, and all sorts of stuff to try to get it to work. Ultimately if it drops at random, it's useless. I was hoping to purchase a few more of these for our other machines in the house to remove my reliance on eBay 'Genuine' Intel cards.Other interesting behavior: it gets really, really hot. I suppose that's not surprising but I am concerned it doesn't have a fan on it to keep itself cool. I rigged up a 140mm fan near it and that seemed to cool it down quite a bit, but it didn't solve my issues.Aside from random drops, the performance copying files from my NAS was incredibly strange. My NAS also has an Intel X540-T2 and using my motherboard's built-in 2.5gbe (also Intel) NIC, I was able to get ~260-270MBps copying files over SMB. The TP-Link was all over the place: sometimes 10MBps, sometimes 200MBps. At random it seemed to do 800MBps with no real reason I could determine. This was between two Samsung 980 Pros on either end, so no caching/overhead shenanigans in theory.I'd be happy with this product if it was simply plug and play and didn't drop connection - even if it couldn't actually handle 10gbit sustained. I rarely see over 3-4gbit with Google Fiber (real world, not speed test) and my NAS drives top out at just under 900MBps anyway.

For people who don't want to spend unnecessary amounts of money on a Wifi card for their desktop build, this is a very good option. On my Windows 11 build, it came right up without needing additional drivers; it seems that Windows 11 has support for the chipset in question included in a standard install.If you are a Linux user, you'll want to know in advance that the chipset in this adapter is the Realtek RTL8812AE. Check your distro for driver support using the chipset, rather than the TP-Link model number, to find the right driver. TP-Link does not directly offer its own Linux driver.I found no problems with build quality or the included antennas. Everything fit without having to force or slightly bend backplates, etc., and if you prefer to use a different pair of antennas just order a pair of the very common RP-SMA Male Wifi antennas that almost all Wifi cards use these days. That said, the included antennas do the job nicely, getting almost as good throughput from opposite my house though multiple walls as when in the same room as the WiFi router. You probably won't need to get other antennas.Please keep in mind that this card does WiFi, but NOT Bluetooth. If you need that, either a more expensive dual-purpose card or getting an inexpensive USB Bluetooth dongel (no reason you should spend more than 6 or 7 dollars on such a dongel) would fit the bill.