Archer TX55E

I used to have my desktop PC connected to my router with a 30 ft ethernet cable. That was a little cumbersome, and the connection wasn't always great. I recently changed internet providers, so now my router is on a completely different floor of my house, and a long ethernet cable wasn't going to cut it anymore. I bought this adapter to get my PC back on the internet, and I was very pleased with its ease of installation and performance. The speeds are fantastic, and the connection is very stable. Also, I didn't realize when I bought it that it had Bluetooth capabilities, so that was a nice bonus.

I needed a Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi card for a custom-built PC I’ve had for years. Typically, I rely on Ethernet, but wanted wireless support for a headset, controllers, and a Logitech Bluetooth mouse to declutter my setup. This TP-Link Archer TX55E (AX3000) does the job extremely well—no connection issues so far, reliable signal, and easy to set up. Based on the specs, it does offer faster speeds and improved Bluetooth performance compared to older models.Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

All the Wi-Fi 7 cards on the market have a theoretical peak speed of ~6 gigabytes per second (Gbps), but unless you have an internet connection with a fiber-optic cable (which isn't even available in most US cities), you won't get more than 2 Gbps. Most cable internet providers in 2025 currently deliver less than 1 Gbps. My Comcast connection gives 200-550 Mbps, depending on the time of day, well short of 1 GB. So all this card has to do is do its job without any headaches.This card uses the Mediatek MT7927 chipset, and that's why the drivers take a little while longer to mature than the Intel chipsets and why you have to plug it into a USB port for bluetooth (Intel's offering uses proprietary CNVi instead, but almost nobody has a motherboard wired for that -- only the latest high end Intel ones). The heatsink casing is just for looks; it doesn't generate enough heat to do anything.In my experience, my Gigabyte motherboard came with a WiFi 5 card connected via M.2 connection instead of the PCI-e one this one uses, and I was only getting 10 Mbps. So I first got an M.2 Intel BE200 WiFi 7 card that was half the price of this one, thinking I'd just swap it out, and then when I did I got 40 Mbps. That was way too slow, and it probably has to do with a sub-par antenna or how the M.2 connection was wired.Then I tried this Wi-Fi 7 card and instantly saw 500Mbps, which is as much as Comcast will send me. So all I can say is it worked for me. Of course, you're going to want to download the latest drivers onto your computer before installing the card. You can use the mini CD that came with if you have a player, but that's only a plan B or plan C solution. I've had no problems with the Bluetooth.If you have an Intel chipped motherboard with CNVi capability, go with an an Intel chipped one like Fenvi. But otherwise this one works fine. The provided antenna has good reception, which was the key for me.

For Wi-Fi 6, this little card is a beast and gets the job done. According to Windows11, it is connecting at 2402Mbps both ways with OpenSpeedTest-LAN yielding 1.1Gbps Down and Up. Real-world file transfer of a video file to my Plex share yielded 153MB/sec (~1.5Gbps), which is about the write speed of the disk. Average does hover around 1.1Gbps. Server is about ~30ft away through a wall of wood and drywall.I did not hook up the Bluetooth as I did not have a need for that functionality, but it is optional with using a free USB header on the motherboard, cable included.Drivers did NOT get automatically detected, so you will need to use the included mini-CD or find them on TP-Link's website.

Wifi and bluetooth both work very well, especially for only $30. Note that the bluetooth functionality requires you to to connect the card to a USB header on your motherboard (it includes a cord to do this), the Bluetooth WILL NOT WORK UNLESS YOU DO THIS (if you only care about the wifi you can just plug it into the pcie slot). The driver installation was very frustrating, which is why I took a star off. The drivers are included on a CD, but who uses a cd reader in 2025. You can just download the drivers off of the tp link website (if you look up tx55 drivers on google you can find them), but the file sometimes won’t unzip in windows, so you might have to unzip to google drive them using a third-party website. It took me a few hours to get the drivers figured out but once I did the card works smoothly. Installation is super finicky and a bit frustrating, but especially for $30 this is a very effective, high-speed wifi and Bluetooth card.

Worked perfectly with Mint Linux in my Dell Optiplex. I opened the side panel and installed this card in one minute, booted the machine, and there it was in the network configuration. No driver install, not even a system message, it was just there working immediately.Performance is fine at 620 megabits on Speedtest (I have 600mb service) with a base connection rate to the AP of approximately 1gb and AX signal strength of 86%.Though TP Link does not officially support Linux in their docs, this card seems to be natively supported with existing Debian derivatives including Ubuntu, Mint, and likely all the others. Excellent Product.

Easy to install and setup. Motherboard has no built-in wifi. In my situation I also had to use Pci-e off set cable. Works great. Getting almost 200gb/s download connected to a wifi6 router.

Easy to install, works well. It's better than using a dongle in my opinion but that's just based on my experience and not any testing I have done. The Wifi portion is fine.I knocked off two star because the Bluetooth is horrible. I don't know if it's just bad luck and the part is bad or if the bluetooth is truly this bad. The audio quality is horrid. It's like listening through cheap $5 headphones. I am connecting to my Galaxy Buds Pro 2 and the quality is bad. Quality is perfectly fine when I connect them to anything else so it's not the headphones.