TP-Link Wi-Fi 6 AX1800 High Gain Dual-Band Wireless USB
TP-Link Wi-Fi 6 AX1800 High Gain Dual-Band Wireless USB Adapter, 1.2-meter USB 3.0 cable, Beamforming Technology, Low-Latency Gaming, Supports Windows 10/11, WPA3, Easy Installation (Archer TX20UH)
SuperSpeed USB 3.0
Up to 10x faster transfer speeds than USB 2.0
| Weight: | 220 g |
| Dimensions: | 11.17 x 3.05 x 1.48 cm; 220 Grams |
| Brand: | TP-Link |
| Manufacture: | TP-Link |
| Dimensions: | 11.17 x 3.05 x 1.48 cm; 220 Grams |
Small discrete little device. I used it for a new laptop that I installed Linux Mint operating system on. The Wifi card was an Intel 6E AX211 160Mhz. I used the dongle to establish an internet connection as most modern laptops don’t have a rj45 socket on them these days. i then could download all the updates and the latest Linux kernel and then after a reboot the Wifi was working perfectly. Would recommend having one in case your laptop’s Wifi card stops working. Great little device.
I found it tricky to set up, though that could just be me, and instructions were very basic. Once done, it gives a good strength signal on the desk top.
So I don’t know about range as I teher from my always close by phone, but it works well and quick enough to not bottleneck anything. Cheap, simple to install (plug and play). Recommended.
Ive tried multiple dongles from Bt, others from tp link and a few other brands but this is by far the best.
Plug and play with both my laptop and pc.
Better wifi Speeds than my built in laptop wifi.
Amazing range across both 2.4 and 5GHz Bands
Amazing little kit, easy to set up just plug and and join the wifi and ready to go.
You need to have good Internet to get top speed so don’t expect miracles if you only pay for 50mbps and want 500 you’ll not get that.
If you have wifi6 in your house, for example, giganet services, and don’t want to hard wire your desktop in, you need one of these to take advantage of the speeds. Very little latency and 505mbs download when tested through Ookla. No loss of speed and better than standard WiFi 2.4 or 5ghz.
Recommended
This made my internet speed so much faster and what I was expecting from my ISP speed. I used to get less than 100Mbps from a desktop network card but this is a massive improvement going above 500Mbps. I recommend this if you are struggling to get good speed. Works well through walls and long distance.
I have the ax1800 and have been using it in an old farmhouse in France, that has 75cm thick stone walls, for the last three weeks. It works really well over a distance of just 12 metres from the router, with no true line of sight between antenna and router. A Mac mini on its own could net get a signal at all, and a connection via a ring main was pretty awful. Now I can watch movies from Netflix etc. This has worked well for me. I downloaded the driver and getting it to work with Windows 11 was no problem at all. I have attached an extension lead to the antenna, so I can hang it up in the window around nine feet from the computer, and that also has caused no problem at all.
I recently had a Virgin fibre broadband put in and yes their customer service is useless, and that is nice, however, I got a booster from them and then I got this as my office is at the back of the house. It is BRILLIANT, next to the router I get 200mbps with this booster going through a hallway, lounge, Kitchen, and utility room and then in the office, I get 150/180mbps. So simple to install. The product is sturdy, versatile and also very nice-looking. Can’t recommend this product enough
I recently upgraded from 30Mb Fiber To The Cabinet (FTTC) to 500Mb Fiber To The Property (FTTP). Using my laptop to connect via WiFi to the router whilst standing next to it, I measured 500Mb/s download using fast.com, which speedtest.net corroborated.
Upstairs on my desktop, however, I was using the TP-Link TL-PA4010KIT powerline to connect via ethernet. Having used that setup for over a year, I can say the connection was not stable and, as seen in one of my attached images, there was a massive loss in speed (27Mb/s on a 500Mb FTTP full fiber connection – madness). Upgrading to the T9UH, however, I saw an immediate improvement of 480Mb/s to even 520Mb/s using the abovementioned speed tests. It’s worth mentioning that my house is a average-sized terrace house built in the 80’s; my router is on the ground floor at the front of the property and my desktop is upstairs at the back of the house – the signal is traveling upstairs and through a wall or two.
I’m very happy. Even if I get 480Mb/s, that’s still within the margin of error for my contract, a massive improvement over my old 30Mb/s FTTC connection, and impressive performance given the obstructions between my router and this tiny USB adapter.
I will say it only seems to work well on a 5ghz connection, on a 2.4ghz I was only getting between 10-30 mb/s.
For people struggling to connect to 5ghz open your device manager, find this, properties, advanced and where it says 2.4ghz disable it and wait a while, it should connect to your 5g network and work perfectly
My 3 year old laptop suddenly refused to ‘see’ any networks. Tried a network reset but this didn’t fix it so it is likely the problem is with the network card which is presumably part of the motherboard these days.
My laptop is out of the guarantee period so, rather than sending it off to Tech Support and paying for a repair, my husband suggested I try one of these. Arrived next day, plugged it in and it worked. It seems I didn’t even need to download and install any drivers, just had to select the network and enter the passcode. Not noticing any difference in performance. Plus it came with a 3 year guarantee so can be expected to last at least as long as the original internal network card.
It’s a fantastic product that I highly recommend.
It installed really easily. Seems to work ok. It’s not super fast though.
I had to replace my existing usb dongle as my new WiFi network uses WPA3 which this small dongle supports.
I bought this hoping it’d give me a more stable signal to my wifi box which is on the opposite side of the house, through several walls and floors. It definitely does that. Never had any issues.
Mainly used in raspberry pi 3b & pi 4 though, as it’s much easier to transfer files to retropie over the network.
Well worth the price and super small once plugged in.
I bought this as my old laptop’s WiFi card didnt use the 5Ghz bandwidth. After plugging this in and adjusting a few settings it vastly improved the internet speed I could get. As it goes directly into a USB port, I’d recommend using a USB hub as it could get knocked quite easily if moving the laptop around. Check your internet speed with a free online tester to check you are getting the speeds you are paying for before trying to improve performance with a gadget 5 GHz has a shorter range so it’s worth deciding whether you might need a booster too.
Right off the bat, the AX1800’s Wi-Fi 6 technology provides blazing-fast speeds that have significantly enhanced my online activities. Streaming 4K content, online gaming, and large file transfers happen without a hitch, all while maintaining a consistent and reliable connection.
Installation was a breeze, thanks to TP-Link’s user-friendly setup process. The plug-and-play functionality means I was up and running within seconds, without any technical hurdles. The compact and sleek design of the adapter is a bonus, ensuring it doesn’t clutter my workspace.
So I used to run my gaming PC’s with ethernet for years because guaranteed speed and ping however now that my only ethernet cable has died I dont really have the time now to set up a new one and having to re tac everything. Bought this.
I am pleasantly surprised with what this 20 dongle can do. Its doing the same speed as I would on wired but with minor fluctuations. I can take this over drop outs sometimes in games because of how my ethernet cable has behaved in recent years.
All in all im really happy with this purchase and I recommend it for people who are looking to replace an ethernet cable for wireless connectivity instead but in certain competitive scenarios where low pings matter I would still go for a wired connection. However my only game that I have been playing is Diablo 4 so low enough where its playable is what I was hoping for.
Disclaimer though is that speed and ping is varied on your ISP/General internet speed so dont take this as this lowers your ping and increases internet speed it doesnt. It gets real close though to your true internet speed if you know it with a wired connection.
Having spent several years struggling with wifi signal in a spare bedroom which was converted to an office, I bought a TP LInk RE365 plug in booster. It improved things a little, but still slow to connect and constant drop outs. Even worse, my mobile phone woudl stay connected to the RE365 when I was in the lounge near the router, so my phone was very slow unless I disconnected and reconnected it. In desperation I bought this AC1900, really expecting no better. Absoltuely wonderful, almost instant connection, no drop outs and good signal & wifi speeds. It sits on the desk but is very neat, in fact my wife knows I have it but still hasn’t noticed it. Phone stays connected to the router. Highly recommended.
This was the solution – by increasing the range from which my PC can pick up a signal, I get to connect directly to the hub. This is much better for signal – much better Wifi than hubs ever gave me. Even better, after using this for more than two years, I have never had any reliability issues with it.
Jokes aside, I have a ~300Mbps down connection and this handles it like a champ, and there’s barely any ping or lag spikes, no packetloss, and no issues really after installation (so far… I have a bad track record with TP-link wifi adapters from before but if you don’t see an edit then assume that it’s been working well since).
It was a major pain to install though. It didn’t immediately plug-and-play like many other reviews, and I had to install the tp-link drivers from the website.
Notice the paradox? Install drivers from a website without having the means to go online? Yeah, good one TP-Link.
Basically, if you don’t have a wired ethernet close by, or have some other means of getting your drivers, you’re screwed. What I did was plug my phone in and use USB tethering, that let me access the wifi. If you can’t do that for whatever reason, I suggest using a different device and using a usb to transfer the driver installation files like that.
Even after installing the drivers though, it refused to connect to my wifi even though it could see it!!! I was thoroughly vexed by now, having restarted my pc about 10 times, but eventually I found out that switching the USB ports fixed it, for some godforsaken reason. If you have a 3.1 USB port, don’t use that one, try to use a blue 3.0 port as apparently they’re not backwards compatible. Eventually, after messing around with USB ports, it now has not acted up since, and connect perfectly fine. I’m not too sure about range, since my router is in the next room, but I’m sure that’s not too bad either, the antennae look real enough.
Fitted the adapter – had to download the driver (as I have no CD drive) and was all connected quite quickly
Unfortunately I got nowhere near 500Mbps connection (i.e to match my broadband router connection speed). Was getting ~80-100Mbps maximum. Some investigation showed that if I went to Device Manager, went to Properties/Advanced and set the Wireless mode from Auto to IEEE 802.11 a/n/c this would give me about 250-300Mbps which was better, but still nowhere near 500Mbps to match my internet speed. In all cases not a bad line of site connection (through a wall) to the router
I have got another (faster) solution now but was hoping this was going to be it
So: good marks for price and relatively easy installation but bad marks for not reaching anything like the speed claimed