this device is doomed. the driver is buggy and tplink does nothing about it

I regret buying this so much lol

I found the same thing. It seems this device is set for 2.0 as a default. I use windows 7 Pro 64 and what you need to do is, go into "open network and sharing center". Click on your connection, it's on the right in the middle of the page. Go to properties, it's near the bottom. Then go to configure, it's near the top. Click on "Advanced" you'll see about 6 options. click on USB. To the right it will give you a value. It will say 2.0. Do a drop down click here and it will show you other options. Click " Force USB 3.0. That's it. Once you do, it may drop the connection. It will come back up though. Now ot show a speed of 3.1 super speed.