The drivers available for my adapter tl wn821n v3 are beta for win 8. I should've mentioned i had a mini usb stick tp link adapter on another pc in the house and that stopped working a couple of years ago. It didn't matter as it did the same on the other usb ports anyway. I did come across a forum where they said to reload the motherboard drivers to help with the usb 3 problems. I have usb 3 issues so thought it was possibly a consequence of that but i don't think so. Once the adapter started acting like this then switching back to win 7 copy didn't matter. wrecked my constant and has given me nothing but problems. I was using win 7 til 2 weeks ago then decided to switch back to win 10. Still got throttle back and disconnection issues. I somehow wrecked the atheros driver for it in my win 10 and it wouldn't recognize it anymore but would still pick it up, so i was able to connect via just automatic network profile set to private.

All i can figure is that it's an old adapter that can't handle heavy loads any more. I had an old phone so i connected that and no throttle back issues or disconnection.

Since the last reply to you it started to throttle back when i put it under load. The walls are thin and though it's not top signal strength it's constant at 70 to 90 signal strength. It's on my old pc in the garage but close to where the router is in the house. Most times that meant it had shut down then windows 10 would pick it back up again. Once zero was reached it would freeze ( Led light stuck on and would require to be pulled and reinserted. Of course that could be due to the torrent and seeds but that didn't matter as so much that once it started to happen it would throttle back slowly down to zero. It's not static so it happens at random times and at random speeds. That's how you can see it looks like it's being throttled back as it reaches certains speeds at verying times. I use torrents for alsorts, you can monitor download speed at the torrent speed the downloader operates on. Sorry didn't see the reply notification email. have to test it on a big fast download which means finding a downloader to download something at that speed. Well you have to fart with it but my old pc is a dinosaur. The new win 10 install wouldn't recognize it even with the drivers put in. So in the end i tried a new fresh win 10 install on another drive. I use an old pc so i got a couple of bsods i thought must be linked to it and looked at the minidump analysis. Tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it. I tried the drivers but there is only 2012 win 8 beta drivers for it. It would work for bit then drop down til it lost connection then reconnect. Any heavy downloading would make it do it again and again. It would max out at just under 4 mbs and then start to decrease til the Led light froze or went off completely. My old tl wn821n v3 usb stick adapter started doing the same thing about thursday last week.

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