https://micsthepick.com/blog/tags/hardware/ Recent content in Hardware on micsthepick's blog Hugo en-us Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://micsthepick.com/blog/post/fixing_my_wifi_adpater/ Sat, 14 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://micsthepick.com/blog/post/fixing_my_wifi_adpater/ <h1 id="fixing-my-wifi-adapter">Fixing my Wifi Adapter</h1> <p>I happen to have a TP Link Branded Adapter (T3U, but this fix should work on a variety of devices)<br> It turns out that a common problem is that it doesn&rsquo;t use USB 3, and when I create a PAN (personal area network) - even if I set it to prefer 5GHz, the speed was abysmally slow.</p> <p>I searched for quite a while for a fix, and finally stumbled on this beta driver from this TP-LINK post: <!-- raw HTML omitted -->Archer T3U Plus is causing BSOD when using a hotspot on Windows 11.<!-- raw HTML omitted --></p>