Hi,

 

I have bought a WN881ND PCI-e wifi adapter. I want to make a hotspot and for this, the wifi adapter needs to support the Hosted network option. The supported models from any manufacturer when you type “netsh wlan show drivers” in the command prompt must show Hosted network supported  : Yes in the enumeration results. I have tested a cheap wifi USB dongle and TP-Link’s WN881ND PCI-e and both show not supported. Do you confirm for WN881ND PCI-e model in the windows 10 same results as mine? If your card netsh shows “Hosted network supported : Yes” then my windows has a problem. Unfortunately, the TP-Link’s manual doesn’t cover this information. If this PCI adapter doesn’t work for me then I want to try TP-Link Archer T9E AC1900 Wireless Dual-Band PCI Express Adapter. Do you confirm for this model Archer T9E AC1900 Hosted network supported : Yes? I have enclosed my card test result here. 

 

Work arounds up to now for this problem:

I have enabled Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power in device manager for the adapter (this is suggested by some people on the internet).

 

 

netsh wlan show drivers

 

Interface name: Wi-Fi

    Driver                    : TP-Link Wireless N PCI Express Adapter

    Vendor                    : TP-Link Technologies Co., Ltd.

    Provider                  : TP-Link Technologies Co., Ltd.

    Date                      : 5/18/2017

    Version                   : 2023.55.415.2017

    INF file                  : oem41.inf

    Type                      : Native Wi-Fi Driver

    Radio types supported     : 802.11n 802.11g 802.11b

    FIPS 140-2 mode supported : Yes

    802.11w Management Frame Protection supported : Yes

    Hosted network supported  : No

    Authentication and cipher supported in infrastructure mode:

                                Open            None

                                WPA2-Personal   CCMP

                                Open            WEP-40bit

                                Open            WEP-104bit

                                Open            WEP

                                WPA-Enterprise  TKIP

                                WPA-Personal    TKIP

                                WPA2-Enterprise TKIP

                                WPA2-Personal   TKIP

                                WPA-Enterprise  CCMP

                                WPA-Personal    CCMP

                                WPA2-Enterprise CCMP

                                Vendor defined  TKIP

                                Vendor defined  CCMP

                                Vendor defined  Vendor defined

                                Vendor defined  Vendor defined

                                WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined

                                WPA2-Enterprise Vendor defined

                                Vendor defined  Vendor defined

                                Vendor defined  Vendor defined

    IHV service present       : Yes

    IHV adapter OUI           : [00 e0 4c], type: [00]

    IHV extensibility DLL path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\Rtlihvs.dll

    IHV UI extensibility ClSID: {6c2a8cca-b2a2-4d81-a3b2-4e15f445c312}

    IHV diagnostics CLSID     : {00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}

    Wireless Display Supported: No (Graphics Driver: Yes, Wi-Fi Driver: No)

 

 

Regards

NNT