TP-Link T2U (AC600) usb WLAN adapter driver on Ubuntu 16.10
Solution 1:
The circa-2013 driver file is too old for your 4.8.0-xx kernel, try this instead:
git clone https://github.com/ulli-kroll/mt7610u.git
cd mt7610u
make
sudo cp firmware/* /lib/firmware
sudo insmod mt7610u.ko
Please tell us how it went as we will have additional steps.