Interesting Wireless Adapter Behavior

[LinkofLight]

So I usually use a power-line adapter connected to my computer for my internet. My router is very far away and I seem to get more reliable connection, for the expense of speed which I am perfectly fine doing. Recently however, I got a new router and as a test I wanted to see how much speed I was losing by using my power-line solution. I have 2 wireless adapters, one that I bought before I had my power-line adapter from TP-Link, and one that I got for free as part of a mother board deal from MSI (but it's really just a re-branded Intel Chip). The links are there if you want a reference.

 

The MSI adapter was a bluetooth and wifi chip, so I have been using it for bluetooth for the past few months and never did any test for the wifi side. So with it already installed in my computer, I tried to connect to the wifi only to find out it wasn't working. Windows wasn't detecting it as a wifi device, only bluetooth. I thought to myself, "It's just a driver issue." So I went to go reinstall my drivers and try again, when I did the same thing happened.

 

I then thought maybe something happened with the Windows install since I have never used wifi on this system yet (The TP-Link wireless adapter was for another system if you were wondering). I installed the TP-Link adapter to check if my wifi was working at all, and it was and worked just fine. I then tried to get the other adapter to work, I switched the PCI slot it was in, made sure nothing was broken and tried again with the same result. 

 

I then gave up, didn't really think it was that big a deal and moved on. I plugged the MSI Adapter in for bluetooth and the TP-Link to test out the wifi. When I booted up the system, both adapters showed up and worked. I could connect to wifi on both adapters. I really don't know why this is happening, I just thought it was odd. I don't really get why I would need to have both adapter plugged in to get one to work. My only thought is that when Windows detects the fact that there is a wifi card, it realizes that the MSI one is there. I also haven't had a chance to try the adapter out on different pc to see if I get the same results, but I hope to do that at some point.

 

If you have any theories on why this is happening, comment away. I want to see if there is a reasonable explanation and it just me being dumb

 

Thanks

 

EDIT:

Here are my system specs if you think it has something to do with it.

 

MSI X370 Gaming Pro Motherboard

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (Overclocked to 3.8GHz)

8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 2933MHz

AMD RX460 2GB

A case, power supply, HHD, M.2 SSD, and stuff I don't really want to look up specifics but they really shouldn't matter to much.

[Donut417]

45 minutes ago, LinkofLight said:

So I usually use a power-line adapter connected to my computer for my internet. My router is very far away and I seem to get more reliable connection, for the expense of speed which I am perfectly fine doing. Recently however, I got a new router and as a test I wanted to see how much speed I was losing by using my power-line solution. I have 2 wireless adapters, one that I bought before I had my power-line adapter from TP-Link, and one that I got for free as part of a mother board deal from MSI (but it's really just a re-branded Intel Chip). The links are there if you want a reference.

 

The MSI adapter was a bluetooth and wifi chip, so I have been using it for bluetooth for the past few months and never did any test for the wifi side. So with it already installed in my computer, I tried to connect to the wifi only to find out it wasn't working. Windows wasn't detecting it as a wifi device, only bluetooth. I thought to myself, "It's just a driver issue." So I went to go reinstall my drivers and try again, when I did the same thing happened.

 

I then thought maybe something happened with the Windows install since I have never used wifi on this system yet (The TP-Link wireless adapter was for another system if you were wondering). I installed the TP-Link adapter to check if my wifi was working at all, and it was and worked just fine. I then tried to get the other adapter to work, I switched the PCI slot it was in, made sure nothing was broken and tried again with the same result. 

 

I then gave up, didn't really think it was that big a deal and moved on. I plugged the MSI Adapter in for bluetooth and the TP-Link to test out the wifi. When I booted up the system, both adapters showed up and worked. I could connect to wifi on both adapters. I really don't know why this is happening, I just thought it was odd. I don't really get why I would need to have both adapter plugged in to get one to work. My only thought is that when Windows detects the fact that there is a wifi card, it realizes that the MSI one is there. I also haven't had a chance to try the adapter out on different pc to see if I get the same results, but I hope to do that at some point.

 

If you have any theories on why this is happening, comment away. I want to see if there is a reasonable explanation and it just me being dumb

 

Thanks

 

EDIT:

Here are my system specs if you think it has something to do with it.

 

MSI X370 Gaming Pro Motherboard

AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (Overclocked to 3.8GHz)

8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM 2933MHz

AMD RX460 2GB

A case, power supply, HHD, M.2 SSD, and stuff I don't really want to look up specifics but they really shouldn't matter to much.

Windows 10 creators update seemed to cause a lot of issue with WiFi adapters. Not sure why, but I see lots of posts here about issues with WiFI cards and Windows 10. My guess is there was a driver issue, maybe a reboot or a recent Windows patch fixed something. Who knows. Hell my wired network adapter sometimes stops working and I have to reboot. I just think Windows 10 is a buggy piece of crap. 

[LinkofLight]

33 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Windows 10 creators update seemed to cause a lot of issue with WiFi adapters. Not sure why, but I see lots of posts here about issues with WiFI cards and Windows 10. My guess is there was a driver issue, maybe a reboot or a recent Windows patch fixed something. Who knows. Hell my wired network adapter sometimes stops working and I have to reboot. I just think Windows 10 is a buggy piece of crap. 

Yeah that could what's going on.