How to improve the speed of TP-Link wireless adapters

1).The distance and obstacles between adapter and router. As we know, each wall or ceiling will have a negative effect on wireless radio particularly the ones built by solid metal material. So, please keep the path between wireless router and TP-Link adapter as clear as possible.

2).The direction and angle of antenna on TP-Link wireless adapter and main router. Antenna on wireless devices are used to receive and send wireless signal. To have a stronger wireless signal, we recommend to place antennas at 45 degrees (diagonally) or 0 degrees (straight out parallel to the floor) which will be more effective, as the picture below.

Note: for PCIE adapters, please take the location of the computer main board into your consideration, and make sure the computer main board not interfere the transmission of antenna on TP-Link wireless adapters.

Nowadays, more and more network devices take 2.4G frequency to transmit signals, and various electromagnetic uses 2.4G frequency to work, which makes 2.4G frequency becomes too crowed to convey signals. Thus, we do suggest our customers to use 5G frequency for network activities to have the best network experience.

Slow association speed will affect the internet speed as well. According to the working features on Wi-Fi, normally download speed of 5G would be around 50% of wireless association speed and download speed of 2.4G would be around 30% - 50% of wireless link speed.

To guarantee that your TP-Link wireless adapter gets better speed, we need to let the wireless association speed archive to the highest value. Please change the wireless channel and channel bandwidth of your router. Different channels will have different performance. The more crowded the channel is, the poorer performance it will get. Channel Bandwidth is also important to the wireless connection, make sure it is set to the best or biggest value for your router.

Please contact TP-Link support with the following information after trying above solutions but all to no avail.

1). the download speed on your other wireless devices in the same location as TP-Link adapter.

2). the wireless association speed of TP-Link adapter. Please refer to the following instruction to check the wireless association speed: How to check the associated/link speed on a wireless client.

3). the driver version and computer system information by referring to How to check driver version of TP-Link adapters and system information of your computer?

4). the model number of your router.

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