Archer T3U Plus - dropping pings

Bought brand new, installed drivers from the supplied disk, had issues immediately so found and upgraded from the TP Link site. Network frequently drops momentarily if you do a ping you can see it chokes every 4th or 5th ping either timing out completely or responding with like 3000ms response time. Windows is up to date and works perfectly fine with ethernet, just I need to move this PC into another room where there isnt any ethernet.
I have an Archer A7 router/AP with 2 RE300 mesh extenders which have 3 bars of signal, all other devives seem to work pretty well on this network.
I always seem to have issues with USB wireless adapters, frustrating!
Can I tweak some settings somewhere?
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Hello.
I Think my problem was solved but not, i still have the same issue like before, i try another beta drivers but still same problem. So i use the cheap wifi from aliexpress. I recomended it to all of you, this tp lini get on the shelf. I dont have power to waste of time with this.
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Hi,
I will also send you the beta driver and you could have a look.
At the same time, you could also try to previous solution shared by other customers:
- Change to USB2.0;
- Adjust the wireless mode of the adapter to be 8011ac only;
Thank you very much.
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So I ran into further issues with the beta driver, it would the connection completely about once a day. This would require a restart or a run of the troubleshooting wizard to recover.
I am done trying to get this working, it is being sent back to Amazon today.
Thanks a lot to all the support folks trying to help, appreciate it. However, please advise your hardware folks to stop making garbage NICs/Drivers.
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@Col777, @Havris I experienced drop also in my pings since I recieved the adapter using the TP-Link drivers. I fixed it by installing these driver "Archer T3U_beta_U2_U3_5G unstable issue_1030.22.0202.2018" (https://static.tp-link.com/2019/201911/20191128/Archer T3U_beta_U2_U3_5G unstable issue_1030.22.0202.2018.zip) from this post https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/204222#topic-reply-432680
test bench: "iperf -s" on router, "iperf -c <server ip> -R -t 60 -P 2" on the tested client (-P 2: is for the # of MU-MIMO stream used)
Here are the results: no more 2+secs pings, no more timeout
Sys info
laptop: 2012 asus n76vz built in wireless n(disabled) w/ t3u adapter
router: asus rt-ax58u 2.4GHz disabled, 80MHz, MU-MIMO, 802,11ax active
Cheers
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@pluque Hello, but when i watch to the screen which you made i see driver version 1030.38.0712.2019. but when i install the driver which you post i have this version 1030.22.0202.2018 with which it is not working. Thanks for reply
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@pluque i have to try a lot of drivers, but without any reason, so i will try reinstall windows and if it not will work i will give the WIFI to the trash.
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Hello, same problem , pinging local addrees I've many time delay (driver version: 1030.29.618.2019, driver date: 04/09/2019
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Good day.
Thank you for your time and patience.
Have you tried the following driver before:
For USB Wireless Adapter:
Note: before installing, you might need to disable the driver sign as below link:
https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/stories/detail/383
by the way, how long have you had the Archer T3U and when did the issue start?
Thanks a lot.
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Hi,
I bought TP-LINK AC1300 Archer T3U Plus to to connect in 5ghz band. I am facing same issues as others.
I see high ping times ( tries 8.8.8.8) or request time at regular intervals.
When i set to use in "ac" mode, After ~10 good pings (~14ms), there is one ping with ~ 3 seconds !!, Some times there is request timeout. This keeps happening.
I notices that i don't see this issue when using T3U in "b" and "g" mode (2.4ghz), this is useless as i already have 2.4ghz wifi dongles and they work good.
I tried with the realtek driver you suggested, I still see same issue. is there a fix for this issue?
Note that I am using it with archer C6 router.
Regards
SrinivasS
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