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BF4In1080P

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Right, I'll get straight to the point, I have just bought a TP-Link mini USB wifi adapter. I bought this because my other PCI internal adapter broke. I complete the startup, fine, download the win 10 drivers, all good. BUT every now and again the wifi stops, either the yellow triangle appears (Connected, no access) or I have full bars just no wifi. However the weird thing is it's ONLY on my PC, not my phone, tablet nor my laptop. I am thinking should I just buy a new router? Maybe get Ethernet? But i dont want to be spending my money if its a easy fix. Please help.
 
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its just a different interface for connecting to the internet so it will have little to no effect on all internet traffic going through the router.

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USB Wi-Fi adapters don't have the strength that PCIe/built in adapters have. They're useful if the signal is fairly close, but if it ain't close... well. It's not going to do anything. You'd either want to go ethernet, which is what I'd recommend, or get another PCIe adapter.
 
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sounds like it could be the adapter itself. IMO TP-LINK is not a very reliable brand so it could be either it could be defective or the windows 10 drivers since a number of people have been reporting issues with wireless adapters (USB and internal) since updating to windows 10 aniversary
 
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Possibly, my old adapter had the same sorta problem. Bit of a stupid question but does Ethernet bypass wifi traffic? Say lots of devices are on the wifi and i'm on Ethernet will it slow down?
 
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its just a different interface for connecting to the internet so it will have little to no effect on all internet traffic going through the router.

 
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