Top 10 Useful Review for “TP-Link USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC 4.0 Bluetooth Dongle Receiver” Best User Review after 6 months of use.

TP-Link USB Bluetooth Adapter for PC 4.0 Bluetooth Dongle Receiver Support Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP for Desktop, Laptop, Mouse, Keyboard, Printers, Headsets, Speakers, PS4/ Xbox Controllers (UB400).

Positive Reviews

Positive Review 1

The Best Bluetooth for PC

Here’s my review after 15 days of extensive usage. So here are my initial impressions when I first opened the box and found this tiny device in it. On-device, it had TP-link branding on a side and Bluetooth wrote on another side, and some paperwork.

What was my purpose for buying this product?

I own a Desktop that is almost 8 years old and it doesn’t have inbuilt Bluetooth. I wanted to connect my Mi Sports Bluetooth Earphones to my Computer which was not possible. So I searched for some products stating “Bluetooth for PC” and I found this.

I read the ratings & reviews and was quite impressed by it and went ahead to buy this one. So now let’s begin with some pros and cons.

Pros:

It- Easy to install, Just plug it into your USB port and it starts working.

– Superb sound quality, No sound drops as such from my Bluetooth earphones

It- Very tiny and handy

Only 1 Con:

– Whenever I move away from my computer, I experience certain sound drops despite being in the same room. Firstly I thought its a manufacturing defect that’s why replaced it with a new one but the problem still resists.

Conclusion:

I am using this product for almost 15 days and I am really impressed by the quality TP-Link has provided with less than 500/- Rs which is quite remarkable. This is the best product in its segment and no competition for it whatsoever. I would surely recommend going with this product if your PC/ Laptop doesn’t have inbuilt Bluetooth. You can connect any device which has Bluetooth for eg. a Phone, Bluetooth Speaker, Bluetooth earphones, etc. You can also transfer/receive files using this Bluetooth device.

It was my first attempt to write a review. Hope you like it. Thank you.

Positive Review 2

Impressive DUAL BAND WiFi Adapter in at a reasonable price. T4U v3.0 High Gain

Model:- T4U v3 high gain ( if you order T4U, you will get the latest T4U v3 High gain/ with external antenna)

Disclaimer:- (My test router did not support MU-MIMO. it might be possible to get higher speeds over MU-MIMO)

Pros:-

1. Plug and Play for windows 10.
2. Dual-Band:- supports both 5Ghz and 2.4 GHz.
3. Comes with a high gain external antenna.
4. Maintains good transmission speeds even at a distance from the router and obstacles present in between router and adapter. Check the attached image for speed details.
5. WPS support.
6. Supports WiFi mirroring / miracast
7. Supports WiFi Hotspot and Adhoc network modes.
8. Foldable for low profile. External antenna folds on top to give it a profile of a Pendrive.(a thick one though. 😀 )

9.Supports MU-MIMO.(My test router did not support MU-MIMO)

Cons:-

1. No proper instructional video for installation on LINUX.Beta Drivers are present but a novice like me can never be able to install them).
2. No USB extension cable was provided.
3. Glossy Surface, easily scratched.
4. Not performing well on the 2.4 GHz band ( but it could be the fault of my router and not this adapters.)

Overall, I will recommend this product if your internet connection speed is up to 600 Mbps.

Above that speed, this adapter will be a bottleneck.

Positive Review 3

OMG My 8 Years old laptop now supports 5Ghz 250Mbps

Review for TP-LINK AC600 High Gain With signal antenna/ ARCHER T2U Plus.

Ohh my Ghosh, what to say, I do not have any words right now. This thing has made my 8 years old laptop compatible with the 5Ghz WiFi band which is supporting my jio fiber’s 250Mbps speeds. Previously by mistake, I had bought a tp-link wifi extender that was only supporting 2Ghz bands, but this is a dual-band that supports both 2 and 5Ghz bands.

Pros:

1. No special app is needed, just plug in USB 3.0 port and boom. It will take 2-3 seconds on Windows 10 to install the driver automatically once plugged in. Afterward, just click on the wifi icon and select WiFi 2 at the top. There you will be able to see your 5Ghz SSID.
2. Comes with a signal booster antenna. My ghosh this device at INR 1100 is a life savior for me. Now not only I am able to connect my 5Ghz SSID but also due to the network boosting antenna I am getting full signals in the room where I used to get very poor signals.
3. WiFi Extender+ Dual Band. This thing will save you some money if you are looking for a WiFi extender and 5Ghz supporter. This thing does both CHEERS!

Positive Review 4

Works like a charm with Windows and Ubuntu 20.04

Works like a charm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Do not go by the description which says macOS and Linux are not supported. Well, I’m not sure about the other distros but it works perfectly fine on Ubuntu both for mono and high-frequency stereo sound. I was able to test this for Skype calls as well as listening to high-quality music on my Tribit noise cancellation headphones and it worked like magic. I was just looking for a Bluetooth dongle or a Bluetooth PCI-E card for my PC since it doesn’t have Bluetooth out of the box. I searched for hours since I’m running Ubuntu and most adapters clearly state that they don’t support Linux OS. However, I looked at some of the other reviews that said it works with Ubuntu and took a chance as I was tired of searching.

The crux is that it was able to relay high-quality EDM music as shown in the screenshot with utmost clarity although there’s one catch as shown in the screenshot make sure to set the configuration as High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink) in the sound settings. This would be changed to Headset Head Unit (mono sound) for Skype or other voice calling software. Make sure to select A2DP while listening to music or watching movies and it will show amazing performance.

Edit: Some Bluetooth devices do not work on Ubuntu. I tried connecting my latest Oneplus earbuds but they only work with A2DP and not HSP meaning I could not use them for calls. I tried it on Windows too and it seems to work much better on Windows. So the problem is with Ubuntu lacking the drivers and not the device itself.

Positive Review 5

Upgrade to my Desktop

I custom built a Desktop for my Photography and Video editing tools, and the only bottleneck was the Wifi. Initially, I was using the TP-Link wireless adapter (G band), then I upgraded to an N series ASUS adapter, but as technology evolves, the bandwidth becomes a bottleneck.

Bought this as the reception on my 2.5 GHz adapter was pretty low. Now, with this installed, I am getting a Full or min 4 bars (out of 5) signal with an upgraded speed of 180mbps (as opposed to 35mbps with N series).

I installed this and it pretty automatically detected itself (on windows 10) and works well.

Now, I can buffer 4k videos easily and can download a 100MB file in less than 5 seconds.

It’s been 3+ months that I have been using it, and I am pretty happy about it.

Pro Tip: Use this on a USB 3 port on your system to get an even better consistent speed. On USB 2.0, this may become unresponsive or give slow speed.

Negative Reviews

Negative Review 1

Useless item – Read on to know why

This is one useless device and lets me tell you why

1. With the Win 10 2004 update, it won’t be auto-detected. You need to download the CSR harmony driver which is 460MB in size. I had a 10-year-old BT dongle that took 5 MBs of space and performed flawlessly until one day it decided to hang up the boots.
2. The interface is childish and seems to be designed by someone who had no UX/UI experience. If you add a device and that device is turned off and powered on again, there is no way in hell to make this dongle get to connect to that device again other than to remove and add that device again. At times, this dongle will automatically detect the device, but if you add two devices or more, this will act like ‘none of my business and you will end up scratching your head what the heck happened.
3. In some applications, the parallel existence of Stereo and AG audio is not supported. You need to disable one of the two options for your Bluetooth audio device in order to hear them. What a dumb choice of options.

Pros:

The sound quality is ok, not too bad like those Chinese ones. That’s it.

Avoid this altogether unless TP-Link fixes the above issue with an update.

Negative Review 2

Poor quality/range, cannot ascertain if it’s genuine or a fake.

Do not buy. Cannot ascertain if it’s genuine or fake.

1. When connected to the pc it just shows the name as “dongle” instead of TP-link which most devices from tp-link are labeled or titled after the product name/number.
2. Inaccurate website description by the seller. Also, they only offer replacement no refund which was rather odd. The adaptor doesn’t work even upto 10feet from the computer let alone the 65ft mentioned in the description.

Going ahead with the replacement with Amazon and will update my review accordingly. But please be aware depending on your need/use.

Negative Review 3

Crashing/Buggy/Unstable Wifi dongle with good speed in 5Ghz band

 (AC1300 mini dongle)

A buggy/glitchy dual band wifi dongle.

Its windows driver is so pathetic that it crashes windows if you try to boot from Hibernation and even on normal boot also.

The driver will crash the windows wifi service (WLAN Autoconfig) on the device plugin, toggling the wifi option in windows, and while booting. If you follow the event log, it says the Realtek driver module is crashing (Rtlihvs.dll). After 3-4 crashes it’ll connect. But if this happens while booting your windows might BSOD.

I tried to upgrade the driver, but the last updated driver was shipped on 25-10-2018, which was part of the windows update, and no driver update after that

God forbid if you try to check with another USB wifi dongle after this was used. This will cause the AC1300 driver to corrupt in such a way, it won’t even be detected in windows and will show “Unknown Device error code 43” (which means windows was unable to determine the device from the USB device instance path. Nothing will work unless you try to remove all the traces of the previous installation from the registry, windows folder …

Oh, did I mention about connecting to 5Ghz band AP from the same TPLINK wifi router (mine is TPLink Archer C3150) fails multiple times? It takes at least 3-4 tries to connect to their own router at 5Ghz band(2.4Ghz works every time)

If you want a device that is not supported by the company after 1-2 years and crashes multiple times then this nightmarish device is for you.

Negative Review 4

Big software issue with this adapter

TP-link Archer T2U Nano AC600 wireless adapter.

This is probably the smallest external dual-band adapter available in the market. It is packed very well which protects the device from any damage. But the biggest issue is the software and compatibility with windows 10. After I installed it, it quickly connected to my 5 GHz band and I felt this would do the magic. If you need a dual-band adapter because your laptop or PC cannot connect to the 5 GHz band then these types of Adapters are best for you. But Alas! This one just doesn’t work with Windows 10 properly. If your router Works then consider yourself lucky. I spent hours trying to troubleshoot with different software, windows, and TP link’s own software. Also tried various fixes that have been discussed on the forum. But nothing worked. I realized how pervasive the problem is with this adapter. A lot of people have complained about this not working fine. Something really wrong with this product. Had to return.

Negative Review 5

TP-LINK Archer T3U Wifi Adaptor – Too many signals drops both in 2 & 5GHZ – MU-MIMO is a Joke!!

1. Too much wifi signal drops both in 2ghz and 5ghz. Initially, I thought it is problem with the router but the Oneplus 7 wifi strength is very great, and havens have not faced a single drop.
2. MU-MIMO is a Joke!! … I have router TP-Link Archer C6 Gigabit MU-MIMO Wireless Router, which supports but using smart wifi selection between 2 & 5ghz. The adaptor always chooses 2ghz irrespective of distance between the adaptor and router.

I regret buying this product despite having an another D-link 2ghz one. Alteast signal drops happens rarely on D-link but speed is less than 40mbps.

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