Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter

Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter

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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-06-28 01:50:31

  @collin3000 This is right on the specs page for the adapter:

 

System Requirements Supported operating system: Windows 11(64-bit) only
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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-06-30 15:39:54

The TP-link Wi-Fi 7 adapter uses a MediaTek card.

 

 

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* Archer BE9300/BE550 V1.60 Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 (USW/1.6) Router * MSI HERALD-BE NCM865 WI-FI 7 MAX (Qualcomm) PCIe Adapter * Windows 11 (Canary 24H2)
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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-06-30 19:18:58

 @soundnado I'm aware it uses the Mediatek card. But there is no good reason that MediaTek card can't have drivers written for Windows 11. Windows 11 is basically Windows 10+ in architecture and WiFi 7 isn't using something like TPM because the driver will work on systems without TPM 2.0 and Intel can make a driver for windows 10.

 

It's merely them not wanting to take the time to write a windows 10 compatible driver.

 

If for some reasom Mediatek isn't giving them access to driver files to make a signed driver then all their card is is a M.2 to PCIe converter and you can get a M.2 adapter and Intel card for ~$45 making the tplink price a huge markup for an inferior product.

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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-07-08 14:28:22

  @Riley_S 

 

Hi, just got this card installed Sunday. 

Was curious if this card supports WiFi7 MESH system features of MLO? I see by first post MLO is listed. 

I noticed this is a MediaTek chipset card vs Intel. Prior PCIe card that this one replaced was a Intel BE200 that connected via MLO. 

 

I know this MLO is farily new stuff and also seems to need or require Windows 11 24H2 to work which I have. 

 

 

Only issues I saw after installing the card was the USB flash drive that came with the adapter seem to cause my mouse to stop working and caused a partial PC crash. Had to force power cycle the PC OFF then back ON. So I downloaded latest driver from here and got it installed:

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/download/archer-tbe550e/

 

After installation completed, noticed that the card would only connect to 5Ghz and not 6Ghz with a 6Ghz supporting MESH system. I had to go in to the drivers advanced settings to get it to connect to 6Ghz. 

 

Any recommendations for suggestions to get the card to connect with MLO? 

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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-07-08 19:27:42

Hey @TwoXboxGamer,

Thanks for the information about the USB, I will make sure to pass the feedback along for our teams to take a look at, just in case.

 

MLO is very new overall, and extremely new when it comes to Windows Systems. When it comes to networking devices, they usually follow the established standard and it is up to the system to make use of the feature. Unfortunately, with the added support for Windows being so new, we do not really have a set of established steps (nor does Microsoft)- especially with the feature being limited to a canary build. Once we see more widespread availability of the feature, we can be sure to provide recommended settings and further test compatibility between our Wi-Fi 7 adapters and Windows.

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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-07-09 00:20:46 - last edited 2024-07-09 00:32:36

  @Riley_S 


Thank you Riley for this information. 

 

Would there be a time frame on when MLO could be implemented between TP-Link and MediaTek? Maybe later on this year? 

 

FYI, I updated the driver v5.4.0.1920 from the post just above mine and still, have to force adapter to prefer 6Ghz to connect at 6Ghz. No Preference seems to chose 5Ghz. I presume this needs tuning. 

 

Thank you for your support. 

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Re:Archer TBE550E - BOusWi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-09-13 19:48:18
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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-10-09 17:11:10

  @Riley_S why not have an option to run on windows 10 in degraded mode? That way when I do upgrade I have full functionality but can still use the product until I am able to upgrade? Other vendors do that.

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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-11-01 01:25:03

  @Riley_S 

What about a Linux driver? I saw Linus Torvalds writing the kernel for Intel BE200, which was kernel 6.10. Is there going to be a way to use this Mediatek chip for Linux?

One of my SSDs is a Windows drive, it was Win 10 Pro, but it got the Win 11 upgrade today so I could run this new card, which runs fantastic, but I normally don't boot into that drive, I boot into my Linux Mint 22 drive, that's my main one, I don't care for Windows. I had no problem running the Intel BE200 on Linux Mint 22, although it was not always connected to the BE band, but usually to the AX band, but it would connect to the BE sometimes. I have a TP-Link BE9300 A550 router. I got this wireless card to match my router, my machine sees the card in Linux Mint 22, but has no kernel driver for it, is there any way to build a kernel module for this card so that it will run?

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Re:Archer TBE550E - Wi-Fi 7 BE9300 Bluetooth 5.4 PCIe Adapter
2024-11-01 01:44:28

  @soundnado 

Is this an actual picture of the card that's inside my Archer TBE550E (BE9300) PCIe wireless card?

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