Hello there. I'll probably be posting in the forums here a lot but for my first thread I wanted to contribute some hardware knowledge to others. I recently picked up a 2005 XP-Era convertible tablet computer from HP at a thrift store for $5 as is and turned out it works great. The onboard WiFi works in it just fine but it was only WiFi-G @ 2.4 and I was hoping for better. I took a leap and bought this one off Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07PB1X4CN/ I can confirm that there are drivers for it on the TP-Link website for Windows XP 32-Bit. Also if you extract their driver package into a folder with winrar/winzip there are "Basic drivers" in there (Deep in a sub-folder) that will let us load just the basic drivers WITHOUT having to load their crappy 2nd party WiFi control software. This USB adapter works 100% with modern WiFi 802.11-AC / MIMO routers and it connects to my router at 433 Mbps on the 5 Ghz band. It degrades down to 155 Mbps at about 200~300 ft away from the router but that's normal (I need to Invest in a 802.11-AC MIMO MESH network later.. that would solve that part). But in general this works 100% and it's cheap. It's also USB 2.0 too and it gets full speed 5 Ghz @ 433 Mbps over USB 2.0 too. Which is a big deal because most older XP era machines probably won't have nor support USB 3.0. I am using this daily on my old HP tablet laptop and it works perfectly fine 100% with this machine running XP-32 & SP3. The only drawback is it seems to use 450ma / 0.45 amps of power constant when in use which has cut in to the battery time on the machine so that kind of sucks but oh well (The USB 2.0 spec allows up to 500ma / 0.5A of power by the way)
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