TP-Link AC1300 PCIe WiFi PCIe Card(Archer T6E)- 2.4G/5G Dual Band Wireless PCI Express Adapter, Low Profile, Long Range, Heat Sink Technology, Supports Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP

(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.

I have a home office setup in my garage about 50ft from my WiFi Router that is inside my House. My PC is an HP ProDesk 600 with Windows 10 64bit. My ISP is Spectrum at 200Mbps Download Speed. I originally went with a TP-Link AV600 Powerline Adapter to get an internet signal to my garage. Always assumed a hardwire plugin would be the fastest and surest connection type for my needs. With that setup I had just under 40Mbps D/L. Not very fast but it seemed to work ok but unfortunately would continually lose connection a few times a day and the Powerline adapter would need to be unplugged then plugged back in to reset. I tried different outlets in my garage with similar results.I finally had enough and decided to try this TP-Link AC1300 PCI Express Adapter and all I can say is wow! Took me only 5 minutes to install. I then I installed Broadcom BCM4360 chip Drivers as I heard the drivers from TP-Link website can have issues on some systems. My first speed test showed my speeds increased to around 85Mbps. I was getting one to 2 bars of signal. Since my signal was not consistently great I ordered an Eightwood Dual WIFi Antenna. This has a magnetic base and extends the TP-Link Wifi antenna from my PC to 6.5ft. Once I plugged that in and raised the antenna off the ground as high as I can get. I now am getting 194Mbps! So if you are not in the same room as your router and are not receiving 3 bars. I would recommend to add this antenna extension to get the best signal possible. Made a huge difference for me. The TP-Link AC1300 is now working flawlessly and does not disconnect. Can't believe I am getting this kind of performance from a relatively inexpensive WiFi Card!

TL;DRIt was terrible trying to find the correct driver and even then I couldn't take advantage of my full DL speed (got 150 Mbps out of 500 Mbps I was getting on my laptop). However, range was phenomenal in that I was able to grab wifi signal from a different apartment building.Con:This wifi card isn't exactly plug and play. For the best speeds, sometimes you have to play with the driver installation. I tilted the antennae so they're parallel to the floor, and I downloaded the V1 driver from TP-Link's website.With the other drivers in the page (and the Broadcom drivers that some people mention) I only managed to get ~ 15Mbps download speed out of the 500 Mbps I was supposed to get from my ISP. With the correct driver, I was able to go faster to ~ 150 Mbps but nowhere near what I should be getting. Still haven't figured that point out actually!Pro:Phenomenal range. I live in an apartment complex that has a series of apartment buildings. We all share the same wifi which was provided by the property owner. The wifi in my building went out for a week but I was able to latch onto the wifi coming from another apartment building 30 feet away or so and still showed like 3 or 4 bars. My roommates had to do all their work on campus while I got to stay at home.