[SOLVED] My TP Link TL-WN881ND stopped working all of a sudden

[matthewraagas87]

Hello everyone, for some reason while I was using my PC that network connection to the my wifi router suddenly lost connection after playing a game. The first thing I checked was the device manager and saw that there was a yellow icon over the pcie wifi adapter. I have tried to disable the adapter and re-enable, delete the driver and reinstall the driver and have removed the physical adapter from the PC and back in again. Not of these things that I have tried did not solve the issue, I am thinking if the actually wifi card is fried/broken and plus there is a LED indicating if it is working or not which should be green but it is turned off. Normally I would see a solid green light or flashing so that it is actually working. Can anyone help me with this issue.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Easiest and quickest way to proceed is to replace that WiFi card with a new one --- all indications are that it's dead. Often there is no better way of diagnosing a problem, especially when the affected device is relatively cheap to replace.

I always keep a spare network card in my computer cupboard, other cheapish items too like spare mouse & keyboard etc. Learned that from my boy scouts days, "Be prepared".

 

[matthewraagas87]

I pretty sure that the wifi card is actually busted now but I thought could the pcie port on the motherboard be broken or mainly just the wifi card itself. The wifi card only cost $29 aud. What wifi card would you recommend?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

I pretty sure that the wifi card is actually busted now but I thought could the pcie port on the motherboard be broken or mainly just the wifi card itself. The wifi card only cost $29 aud. What wifi card would you recommend?

Can't recommend one I'm afraid as I only use WiFi on my phone, never on my PC (and I don't have a laptop).