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Review on 🌐 TP-Link TG-3468 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express Network Card: PCIE Adapter for PC with Win10 Support by Jaime Alonso

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Don't buy if you're upgrading Windows 10!

This adapter is easy to install. Windows 10 recognized it immediately and loaded the standard Microsoft drivers (the adapter appears as Realtek). I checked the TP-Link website and found and downloaded a newer driver. Everything was fine until I tried to install Windows Update 02/2020. This caused the update to fail for a variety of reasons - the worst being a reboot loop with ndis.sys not running at boot, or a blue screen during normal Windows processing. Disabling the adapter before the update didn't help. Downloading and running the offline update file from Microsoft did not work. I eventually got the update to install and reverted to the default Windows driver (causing Windows to crash/restart). I tried a combination of drivers, disabled the adapter, removed the device and somehow it worked. Windows Update 02/2020 is finally installed but I don't know how I got there. I know the adapter/device was disabled on a successful attempt, and I disabled it *during* the update (not before the update started). We'll see how the next update goes, but I'm ready to just throw it away. I have no issues with TP-Link products in general, but I will NEVER buy this particular product again. :(

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