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Wifi USB Products from TP-Link not compatible to new Windows 11 products (ARM64, ARM, Snapdragon) ?

Wifi USB Products from TP-Link not compatible to new Windows 11 products (ARM64, ARM, Snapdragon) ?

Wifi USB Products from TP-Link not compatible to new Windows 11 products (ARM64, ARM, Snapdragon) ?
Wifi USB Products from TP-Link not compatible to new Windows 11 products (ARM64, ARM, Snapdragon) ?
Yesterday - last edited Yesterday

Hi everyone,

 

Could you help me? I'm a bit stuck. I just can't find a TP-Link USB Wi-Fi adapter that supports Windows 11 on the new ARM processors.

 

I tried a "TP-Link Archer T3U" (new) and a "TL-WN725" (older model) and returned both. I also couldn't find a single product on the TP-Link support page that supports the new processors.

 

Does this mean that TP-Link's USB products aren't compatible with the new devices like the Surface Laptop, Asus Vivobook, Zenbook, Acer Aspire, Lenovo ThinkPad, and Dell notebooks with Snapdragon processors?

 

Or is the error on my side and I haven't looked properly?

 

Regards,

Tim

 

 

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Re:Wifi USB Products from TP-Link not compatible to new Windows 11 products (ARM64, ARM, Snapdragon) ?
23 hours ago

  @Tim02 

 

Hi,

 

Presently there are no USB Wi-Fi adapters for which drivers for Windows ARM exist.

 

The drivers are made by the chip designers. The three companies that make chips for USB Wi-Fi adapters are MediaTek, Realtek and AIC and to my knowledge none of them has provided any ARM drivers for their USB Wi-Fi chips yet.

 

And since Snapdragon already includes Wi-Fi by design, there is actually not much incentive for the other companies to put much effort into making Wi-Fi drivers for Windows ARM.
 

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Re:Wifi USB Products from TP-Link not compatible to new Windows 11 products (ARM64, ARM, Snapdragon) ?
7 hours ago
Thank you so much for your detailed answer. That explains why there aren't any at all. Your answer makes sense. However, I'm still surprised that there isn't a single product on the market that can connect a Snapdragon ARM Windows device to a second Wi-Fi network. Thanks again, Tim
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Re:Wifi USB Products from TP-Link not compatible to new Windows 11 products (ARM64, ARM, Snapdragon) ?
an hour ago

  @Tim02 

 

If you need to connect to a second Wi-Fi network at any cost, then you could perhaps use a Realtek USB to Ethernet dongle and connect that Ethernet dongle to the Ethernet port of a Mesh extender or regular Wi-Fi extender that you connect to the second Wi-Fi network.

 

Realtek's Win11 driver package for their USB Ethernet adapters includes drivers for arm64. https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585

 

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