Coming soon, TP-Link Archer T8E, AC1750 dual band PCIe card. Thoughts?

[Gordo74]

Can you do an alt+click on the wifi in the task bar and screenshot the info it gives? That should show transmit rate and the like.

 

[ammontgomery84]

Update:

Unfortunately, the card has been causing intermittent freezes and kext panics. When my system does decide to accept it, I can work on it for an entire day. However, 9/10 times when I restart my system, it causes a kernel panic. Running in verbose mode reveals that it is caused by the country code of the airport device. Honestly, I don't have the motivation at this point to even attempt a successful country code/id change... I give up. I'm sending it back and ordering a broadcom adapter from eBay.

 

[Gordo74]

Update:

Unfortunately, the card has been causing intermittent freezes and kext panics. When my system does decide to accept it, I can work on it for an entire day. However, 9/10 times when I restart my system, it causes a kernel panic. Running in verbose mode reveals that it is caused by the country code of the airport device. Honestly, I don't have the motivation at this point to even attempt a successful country code/id change... I give up. I'm sending it back and ordering a broadcom adapter from eBay.

If you have clover, all you have to do is put an entry in under "kexts to patch" from toledo's Airport guide on the stickied thread once and it fixes that issue forever.

 

[frontgear]

I got the TP-LINK Archer T8E installed in my gig and am running Clover boot loader (r3142). Everything works OOB with no Clover kext injections or custom kexts.

No issues whatsoever with booting/restart or errors with country code. It is connected to my 5th-gen Apple Extreme router at 450mbps. I haven't tried the latest Apple Extreme 802.11ac yet but will do so this week.

 

[the-darkvoid]

What's the device and vendor id?

Use DPCI Manager to see


Using that we can make it an original Apple Airport Extreme.

 

[frontgear]

I used skvo's injection in Clover and changed the device name. Note that this is only cosmetic.

Device is now shown up as Airport Extreme.
Locale, Country Code, and Channel are fixed as well.

Vendor ID = 0x14E4
Device ID = 0x43A0

 

[frontgear]

I finally had time to setup my Apple Extreme 802.11ac router (latest generation) and the TP-LINK Archer T8E is connected to the router @ 1300 Mbps!

I am a happy camper.

 

[Stork]

This post also has had success.

 

[UtterDisbelief]

This post also has had success.

Using Chameleon on my newest H97M build and this TP-Link card works fine. It's a heavy little beast with that big heatsink on it.

Booting into Windows and checking the Device Manager shows the TP-Link is based on a Broadcomm chipset but I'll be dashed if I can see the chipset model code in there. TP-Link have stamped their own identity on it. Vendor ID is 14E4.

In Yosemite System-Info it shows, as previously mentioned, as a "Third-Party WiFi Card" but with no other details except mac address.

However I can confirm it works very well, with no drop-outs so far for me, on 10.10.2 and OOB with no tweaking of kexts.

 

[Shoe-Jitsu]

Hey guy, wanted to know if anyone has experienced super slow data transfer with this card using the plug and play approach... I've started a thread for it here.

If anyone has any idea what I could do it would be greatly appreciated... I've scoured the internet for so loing and nobody else has seemed to have this issue / there are not many threads on this card anyway