Wireless adapter not working on windows 10

ghassanh93

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Greetings everyone.

Please forgive me if I don’t provide enough information from the very beginning or if I am vague in any way. I have read the forum’s rules and am trying to follow them as close as I can.

I have a TP-link wireless adapter ( TL- WN725N v2 ) which I recently bought to pair with my bew pc build that came with a windows 10 64 bit OS. I have been trying to connect to my wireless network at home for days now without any success. It either shows “connected” but doesn’t actually connect to the internet. Or most recently; simply refuses to connect to my wireless network. Stating “unable to connect to this network”. All my other devices are normally connected to my network and my internet connection is just fine. And I have replaced my wireless adapter at the shop thinking the problem was from the piece itself. But when I try it on my windows 7 pc it works just fine. It just refuses to connect when put on my windows 10 pc.

Things I have done:

- uninstall and reinstall the latest wireless adapter driver (v2 driver as is with my piece).
- turning off security on my wireless network and trying to connect.
-resetting my windows’ setings.
-reverting back to an older windows image
- tried “forgetting” my network but it refuses to connect in the first place to even remember it. I have to enter the password whenever I try to connect.
- resetting my wireless adapter. My wireless network. And my windows.

Nothing seems to work. When I simply remove my adapter and plug into my windows 7 machine it works like a charm.

I have always disliked windows 10 but now I genuinely hate it. But I don’t want to revert to windows 7 on this pc.

My specs:

Intel Core I7 7700
Motherboard: msi b250 gaming
Gpu: geforce gtx 1060 6g gaming x (msi)
Windows 10 64 bit


If you need any more information I will be closely watching this forum to be able to instantly reply.

Thank you.
 

chmcke01

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Have you tried moving the computer closer to the wireless router to see if the issue persists? I have had issues where it shows 1-2 bars but it will not keep a stable connection. At least then you would be able to rule that out as the issue.

I would also suggest trying front USB vs rear USB and trying a USB 2 port if that board has any
 

ghassanh93

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Update: I have moved the adapter to all the available USB ports on my motherboard and nothing has changed. At one point it connected but with an extremely slow internet (my connection is fine on all other devices) and then it resumed it's usual "could not connect to this network". I am pretty sure the adapter is fine as it works perfectly on windows 7. I believe there is something to do with win. 10