For TP-Link I can only say, looks visually very appealing ... illuminated only when a WLAN activity of equipping place ... in one, I personally liked them, send green. From the proportions of the stick is a little bigger than my old stick for example, a Fritz! USB WLAN Stick. Maybe a little unwieldy for netbooks and notebook users, but who anyway installed in most cases their own wireless cards ...
I use the stick on a desktop PC and am very satisfied.
But what I have to say, this is the installation in Windows 7 was a little more complicated:
1. The supplied driver CD contained only drivers for Windows 2000, XP, XP 64, Vista and Vista 64. The Windows 7 and Windows 7 64 bit drivers there but just on the manufacturing side of TP-link to download. If necessary, it is possible to use the 7 drivers in Windows Vista and then upgrade to the Windows 7 driver, where they are installed and downloaded from the manufacturer's site. What is a small effort and of course part of the manufacturer, it would long ago can be solved by providing the basic Windows 7 driver with CD. Personally, I have my Windows 7 driver pulled to a different computer and copied via USB memory stick to the computers to be installed.
2. The installation under Windows 7, can be problematic in certain circumstances, if you are not very experienced in dealing with manual driver installation for devices. But can be found on the manufacturer's site a very good guide that leads one step by step through this procedure, but unfortunately in English. Thus, it can be used for PC beginners and English is quite difficult might muffle. Search Any help on the Internet.
3. After installation, there was the problem that he wanted to find absolutely no WLAN despite the presence of Wi-Fi, well I was faced a unsolved puzzle, after repeated re-install the drivers and replace the driver through VISTA and tentatively XP drivers. Am I on Google search gone ... and found in a forum, the decisive tip has solved my problem. I'd write a quick summary:
! Important! I am not liable for any damage, all configuration is done on its own responsibility.
Windows 7 64 bit
(Can not now speak for other operating systems if the problem is there and available or whether you can solve the problem with this proposed solution)
Should you find the TP-LINK no WLAN, although wifi is definitely present.
Man goes into the "Network and Sharing Center"
Turn left at the side to "Adapter Settings"
Right click on "Wireless Network Connection", then click "Properties"
Then the check mark at "Kaspersky Anti-Virus NDIS 6 Filter" and "Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP / IPv6)" remove,
click OK,
and then can be started and run through the Network Troubleshooting Windows.
Then Windows should normally detect a wireless connection.
Then of course, the steps are reversed and the check marks reingesetzt again in the appropriate options.
Et voila ... I have Internet and can describe my experience on Amazon with the TP-Link TL-WN821N :)
and I have to say to these minor problems at the beginning, I am very satisfied with the WLAN USB Stick. He runs and runs and runs ...
We'll see what the future holds.
I forgive 5 star in spite of these shortcomings, the reason because I am thus become richer by one experience and then what have learned to get around a problem or eliminate. And of course because of the stick so far is going well and there were no further problems. From optical top notch, just perhaps a little big, but that does not bother me desktop users, with us, everything is a little bigger in the workplace.
Of course it would have been nicer without driver issues and with immediate WLAN detection, but ... what is nowadays already easy? ;)
Finally ... Whoever finds Rechtschreibfäler may keep them; o)
EDIT:
Use Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
and a wireless router: Speedport W501V
