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How to Install USB Wi-fi Mediatek Ralink WLAN Driver on Windows 10
This post will download and install USB Wi-fi broadband driver the latest version for Mediatek and Ralink USB devices.
I'm going to show you how to download and install the most latest driver for ralink802.11 and usb wireless lan card so basically anything that you have from the manufacturer ralink because rallying doesn't exist anymore.
It's owned by Mediatek now so we need to go ahead and download this driver for this usb lan driver from Mediatek and I'm going to show you how you can download the most latest release.
So go ahead and launch your preferred browser
and before we do that I will remove this
Ralink driver which doesn't work properly so this is old driver which is not up to date for my
system.
I'll go ahead and remove it and then I will install the most latest driver for my usb WLAN wi-fi.
I want to remove all the features from railink wireless LAN and it's 1.2 and it's finished
completed and finished
Now I'll go ahead and show you how you can download from Mediatek.
Mediatek now takes care of anything that Ralink
had to do and this driver can be found here
from this location from this URL I will
leave in the description below and here you can see you can download it for windows mac and linux
so download it for your operating system
and install it.
I'm going to use it for this Windows 10 it should work on windows 7, 8
8.1 and 10.
Maybe for Windows 11.
Go ahead and download it open this in the windows folder downloads folder and unzip it. I already have unzipped it you can see it here the same
name open it once it's unzipped so how to do
unzipping basically right click on it and then say extract all if you're using 7-zip or winrar
use your preferred packages to unzip it or extract it.
And you can see I've got two folder with the same name so i'm going to delete these zip folder I don't need them any more and then also this one because I've got extra so this is the package I need okay and this is from Mediatek so go ahead and double click on this package to install and say yes on the UAC windows' popup and you can see Mediatek wireless LAN wizard should start and you have two options here simply say I accept terms and license agreement and then hit next you have two options you can install the
complete utility, or you can simply install the driver
I'm going to use the first one which is complete utility WLAN utility and then say install and it shouldn't take long time on my system because i
already had installed it previously but mediatek this driver takes bit longer so here we go.
I'll leave this link in the description
and in a moment you'll see how it looks
like. I have already used this Mediatek wireless utility for this USB wi-fi and it works perfectly fine I have been using on and off for some
time.
So you'll see once it's installed you
simply say finish and something will come up here
it's just trying to configure it you can
see it here and you see I'm just offline I just got disconnected because this driver is
trying to configure something so what I will do.
I'll just unplug it and plug back in and hopefully it's going to take care of it. I won't have to restart the system, if required you
simply have to restart the system.
Let's see what happens, okay here we go so this is Mediatek it's not working so let's see what
happened launch config utility and this is
basically happening due to this USB is not
responding properly.
I guess I need to restart the system.
All right guys!
Thank you for your patience you can see
after restarting the system this Mediatek utility
is working properly and it's giving all the information you can see and it's connecting automatically whenever I restart my system.
Now, I can also go ahead and show you in
the programs Windows that it's been installed and here it is mediatek rt2870 wireless LAN card driver.
Okay so that's it guys if you have any questions suggestion leave in the comment below.
Bye for now!!
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