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Originally Posted by Limitless
Anyone ever dealt with a PCI-E wlan card slowing down over time? I have a TP-Link Archer T6E 802.11ac that supposedly gets 867Mbps. When I first built my computer last Christmas I was getting about 180mbps on Shaw's speedtest. Half a year later I'm down to about 2mbps - 30mbps if I'm lucky.
Updated the driver, checked the connection, played around with the antennas, nothing. My router and my tower positioning hasn't changed since then. Bought a USB wlan stick for my gf's computer beside mine and hers gets 180mbps no problem. Plug the same USB stick into my computer and I get the same 180mbps speeds too.
Anyone know what happened here with my PCI-E card? Surprised it died so fast... I always thought having a PCI/E wlan card would be better than getting a USB stick, but now I'm not so sure anymore :|
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I've owned the T6E and the T9E before. I think the antennas on it are just poor quality.
I repurposed an
ASUS antenna base from a different card and it improved my connection greatly.
I've since moved on to a Fenvi T919 for my Hackintosh. No issues here at all.
If you're looking for another TP-Link product, I'd get the T9U. It's about $80 on Amazon, but I had absolutely no issues with it when I compared it to my T9E. The T9E would give me spikes and packet loss in PUBG, but the T9U was perfect.
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Originally Posted by twitchyzero
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Happens everywhere. But a solid platform is solid regardless if it was a cherry pickled sample or not.