2023 New AX3000 WiFi 6 Network Card,Wavlink Dual-Band AX200 Wireless Adapter with Bluetooth 5.2, WPA3,PCIe WiFi Adapter for Windows 10/11

I have no complaints. I had a Netgear USB wifi adapter and I was regularly disconnected from the network with it, because of my distance from the router. With this, my speeds are several magnitudes better, I have max signal strength, and I never get disconnected.

With that said, this thing has some real issues. The *transparent(!!)* orange tape over the connector, what in the heck were they thinking? It’s so hard to see. if there weren’t for the reviews here, I probably would have destroyed my PCIe port and returned here to give this a bad review. I’m almost certain a good chunk of the “didn’t work” reviews were because that thin piece of film is so hard to see under normal lighting conditions, and so people just throw it in their MB and it borks everything. Just an awful choice to make about a good NIC card.

Secondly, windows WILL NOT be able to find the drivers for this, out of the box. The Wavlink website, amazingly, also has the *WRONG drivers* for this. Yes, you read the correctly (see pic). Following the instructions Wavlink provided themselves *in the package(!!)*, windows will throw you a vague error about the drivers (provided on the website) not working. Wavlink can’t even be bothered to check that the drivers for this (WL-WN675X2) even work. Amazing!

Thankfully, you can completely ignore the wavlink website, which you 100% should considering their history. This card, in actuality, is an AMD/MediaTek RZ608, and Windows 10 recognizes it as such (see pic 2). If you google “mediatek rz608 drivers” the Microsoft Catalog Update page should be in the top results, which is where you’ll find the required drivers.

There were no items in the package that were damaged or missing. I’ve built my own computers since 1992, and worked in the IT industry since 2002. The first adapter I received was not recognized in Device Manager. I tried different PCIE slots and different computers. Same result. I returned it, and another one was sent. The second adapter was recognized, but the drivers would not work, except for the Bluetooth. I spent hours troubleshooting to see if I could find a driver for the network adapter that would work, but nope.

Drivers are not sent with the product. It uses Intel drivers, anyway, so you don’t need to go to the WAVLINK site to download and install them. Windows 10 will initially recognize the wi-fi adapter as “Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network)”, but it won’t work with those drivers. If I try to install the latest Intel drivers for the AX200, it will give a Code 31 error.

Obviously, the network adapter works for some people, but many people in various online store and video comments sections are having the same issue as me. Maybe I just got two bad wi-fi adapters? At any rate, hopefully when you order yours, yours works.

Got this for use in a cinderblock home… traditionally have had to use Powerline Networking as the walls block wifi… but reviews said wifi6 worked through concrete a little, so I figured I would try it…
Data rates are only around 30MBps… but that is crazy fast when going through concrete.
Distance from router is about 50 feet, with 8 inches of concrete, plus other traditional drywalls in between.
And does actually run faster than powerline on this old house.