I also have this wireless adapter for win8 while it's 32bit. I contacted TP support and they told me the chipest of this adapter is Atheros AR9287. Then, I went to Atheros website and downloaded...

In that case, you may need to share your local area connection like below picture.

really confused... what's the operating system of your PC? It can't support Soft AP on some OS.

Your PC would connect to the wifi with better signal automatically. If you do not want to connect range extender, you may move extender away and the signal of extender will get weaker for your PC.

ahindkjaer wrote Has that worked fore you? so far so good.:)

perhaps your driver is right, but you still can try this one. http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#2282