I recently purchased a TP-Link ARCHER T2U AC600 nano, which supports 802.11ac, because my laptop's wifi adapter is the RealtekRTL8723BE which is 802.11n but does not have 5 Ghz support, and the speed difference between 2.4 and 5 is huge.
Now I'm currently using the adapter to connect to my university wifi, which works on dual-band, and has a limitation of 2 users per registration id(of the college). So when I got my new adapter, I went and got my Wi-Fi access reconfigured to work with my new adapter and not my old one, and it was working just fine. This was 2 days ago.
However, today morning, I noticed that my adapter was not detecting my university Wi-Fi anymore, so I uninstalled and re-installed the drivers, and it successfully connected. But the speeds were back to being horrific.
When I checked, I found out that whenever the wifi adapter is set to any mode that supports 5 Ghz band, theuniversity wifi network is not visible to the card, while other 5Ghz SSIDs like my phone's hotstop are visible. Only when its set to 802.11b/g/n, the university Wi-Fi is visible.
This defeats the purpose of my buying it in the first place.
Furthermore, when I use my new wifi adapter in any other laptop, it can still detect and connect to the 5 Ghz band of my university wifi just fine.
I would like to mention that all of the reconfiguration etc is admin controlled through the server room in my university campus, although I'm suspicious , I don't have the technical knowledge to determine whether he could restrict such a thing to a particular laptop with a particular wifi adapter.
laptop model is : Asus R558UF -Intel i5 6200u, Nvidia Geforce 930m, 8 gigs of ram, 1 tb storage.
laptop's inbuilt Wifi adapter is RealtekRTL8723BE 802.11n with only 2.4Ghz support.
New wifi Adapter : T-Link ARCHER T2U-AC600 nano with 802.11a/ac/n/b/g.
Current operating system: Windows 10 build 1903
Latest drivers for the wifi Adapter are already installed.
What I've tried so far to no avail:
Now I'm currently using the adapter to connect to my university wifi, which works on dual-band, and has a limitation of 2 users per registration id(of the college). So when I got my new adapter, I went and got my Wi-Fi access reconfigured to work with my new adapter and not my old one, and it was working just fine. This was 2 days ago.
However, today morning, I noticed that my adapter was not detecting my university Wi-Fi anymore, so I uninstalled and re-installed the drivers, and it successfully connected. But the speeds were back to being horrific.
When I checked, I found out that whenever the wifi adapter is set to any mode that supports 5 Ghz band, theuniversity wifi network is not visible to the card, while other 5Ghz SSIDs like my phone's hotstop are visible. Only when its set to 802.11b/g/n, the university Wi-Fi is visible.
This defeats the purpose of my buying it in the first place.
Furthermore, when I use my new wifi adapter in any other laptop, it can still detect and connect to the 5 Ghz band of my university wifi just fine.
I would like to mention that all of the reconfiguration etc is admin controlled through the server room in my university campus, although I'm suspicious , I don't have the technical knowledge to determine whether he could restrict such a thing to a particular laptop with a particular wifi adapter.
laptop model is : Asus R558UF -Intel i5 6200u, Nvidia Geforce 930m, 8 gigs of ram, 1 tb storage.
laptop's inbuilt Wifi adapter is RealtekRTL8723BE 802.11n with only 2.4Ghz support.
New wifi Adapter : T-Link ARCHER T2U-AC600 nano with 802.11a/ac/n/b/g.
Current operating system: Windows 10 build 1903
Latest drivers for the wifi Adapter are already installed.
What I've tried so far to no avail:
- Uninstalling, reinstalling drivers provided with the adapter and the online ones at support website if TP-LINK.
- Uninstalling and replugging to install the default driver.
- Installed a version of the driver on a friend's laptop and when it worked on his, used the same driver on mine.