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Does using more usb 3 affect WiFi?

My computer does this wierd thing, where I unplugg my usb 3 SD card reader and it starts working. Whenever the SD card reader is plugged in, the wifi wont work. 

I then just unplugged my sd card reader and it started working again.

 

Then I decided to plug my mouse and audio DAC to the usb 2 ports

then I realise it works with my SD card reader in it.

 

My wifi card is the TP link archer t6e

 

Image result for archer t6e

 

Someone explain it to me XD

 

This seems illogical

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”


 


―  C.S. Lewis  :)

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It sounds like a power issue really, but one that makes little sense.  Open the device manager and plug in USB items with that open, so you can see if it gets disabled or removed (i.e. disappears) or what happens. 

 

Right Click the Start Button >> Click on Device Manager

 

In Device Manager >> Click the arrow next to "Network adapters"  

 

In the list you should see something with Archer.... as its device name 

device manager - network adapters.jpg

Start Menu - Device Manager.jpg

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USB 3.0 is known to interfere with WiFi in some cases.

Router:  Intel N100 (pfSense) WiFi6: Zyxel NWA210AX (1.7Gbit peak at 160Mhz)
WiFi5: Ubiquiti NanoHD OpenWRT (~500Mbit at 80Mhz) Switches: Netgear MS510TXUP, MS510TXPP, GS110EMX
ISPs: Zen Full Fibre 900 (~930Mbit down, 115Mbit up) + Three 5G (~800Mbit down, 115Mbit up)
Upgrading Laptop/Desktop CNVIo WiFi 5 cards to PCIe WiFi6e/7

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