TP-LINK software installation
- 1. Installation of a wireless NIC By George Smith-Moore
- 2. Installation of the wireless NIC Once the wireless NIC has been physically installed, you must install the software, If you do not, the device may not work!
- 3. Installing the Wireless NIC’s software. If the computer cannot connect to the internet, install the driver through the disk provided. Otherwise use the driver on the internet.
- 4. Click the setup application!
- 5. Installing the Wireless NIC software Now that the application has launched, click the corresponding model (the one you have installed, if you are not sure, it will say on the box)
- 6. Install Shield Wizard Once you have selected your model, the ‘install shield’ wizard will launch. You can install the driver only but the configuration utility is an add-on which is recommended by TPLIN K
- 7. File location You can change the file location but for simplicity I would recommend that you let the program create and install to the default folder. Once you have chosen the file location press, ‘next’ and then ‘install’.
- 8. Installation Now that the program is installing, please wait until it has finished.
- 9. Installation complete! Now that the installation of the driver is complete, press ‘finish’. Now the program can be loaded up.
- 10. TP-LINK GUI Once the application has booted up, you can use it to connect to the internet. Connecting to the internet is shown above, first choose your network, secondly type in the password if required, thirdly off you go!
- 11. Checking the internet. Once the connection has finished you get a popup message as shown. If you click on the status tab once connected, it will give you information about the network and your
- 12. Check the driver. To check if the driver has installed correctly, you can check in the device manager. Under the tab network adapters, if the TP-LINK adapter is shown (without an exclamation mark next to the image), then it has installed correctly.