ALFA NetworkAWUS036AC Long-Range Dual-Band AC1200 Wireless USB 3.0 Wi-Fi Adapter w/2x 5dBi Removable External Antennas for Extreme Distance Connections - 2.4GHz 300Mbps / 5Ghz 867Mbps - USB Cradle Dock Included - Standard's 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11N, 802.11ac

I was looking for a solution to allow me to utilise my parents Virgin Media broadband about 20 meters (crows flight), window to window. This gave me around 30% on 2Ghz and about 30 other routers started displaying my list I’d not seen before.I’ve since had my own VM BB installed, 100MB and on 5GHZ I’m hitting just over 100MB down / 6MB up (limited) all day long no problem. I work with large files, I’m always streaming video in the background and I cannot tell the difference between WIFI / cable. I’ve tested in on Windows 8/10, OSX El Cap, Linux and it’s been no problem. The routed is situated blow my room about 6 meters away with 100%. I can only get 60% on built in WIFI on a laptop. It’s an old house, thick walls so I’m happy.I would recommend this product, it’s well built, the aerials can easily be replaced / upgraded. I’ll defo be taking this when I go away too, hotels always have black spots, this should work a treat!I had also bought a USB3 Amazon cable for it too, which is very well built!http://amzn.to/2a7F3ByIt’s a really high quality cable, no problems experienced.

My PC has wifi 'n' capability but at the far end of the apartment from the Plusnet fibre router it would only get it at 15 megs or so vs 70megs for the laptop near the router. I tried home plugs but they were no faster - the cupboard where the phone line comes in has the router and about 6 other electrical gadgets plugged into what was originally a single 13A socket. All of them. VoIP gateway, Sonos bridge, DECT phone base station, aerial amplifier etc, have those little power bricks which cause electrical interference and which were slowing the home plugs to a crawl.I considered a wifi repeater but really wanted to stick to a single wifi source so I thought I'd try a better receiver. This gadget is connected to a USB3 port (with a proper USB3 extension cable) and has transformed the computer using part of my life. It sees far more wifi sources than the internal Dell receiver and mostly gives me over 60megs broadband, with a fastest of 67megs. That makes downloads and uploads wonderfully quick (we synch our computers continuously across Dropbox Pro in the cloud).

The product arrived in a nice little box, and the actual adapter itself is pretty big and powerful. Also supplied was 2 reasonably sized antennas. To my surprise I found that as soon as plugging this into a USB 3.0 port on my PC running windows 10, Windows 10 installed the required driver instantly and I was able to connect to my 5ghz network out of the box achieving a very good signal and the full 150 megabits per second I pay for. Annoyingly the supplied USB dock is only USB 2.0 which makes no sense considering the actual adapter is USB 3.0 and can make full use of the benefits of USB 3 (I have uploaded a picture showing this) nevertheless, the box does state it is a free 'gift' so I'm not going to mark it down because of this.With Windows 8.1, you have to install the both the driver and the software in order to achieve full speeds. I found that the device was plug and play with windows 8.1 however you receive very poor performance without installing the driver from the Alfa website.Pictured, I have some speed tests. I have done an experiment and as you can see the adapter performs very weakly when the antennas are not connected. I get full speeds when connected from my bedroom - which is one floor and one room away from my router. For convenience sake, I have also added a 'real world' speed test conducting a download on a games client called Steam, pictured is the speed in MegaBYTES (not bits), of one of my games downloading. One megabyte is equivalent to eight Megabits so theoretically,according to my own speedtest, I should get a speed of around 19.8 megabytes which is more than accurate using this adapter.Overall, I'm very happy with my purchase, however because of the poor driver support in OS's other than Windows 10 and because of the fact the supplied cradle is only USB 2, and that the adapter performs poorly on its own without the aid of the antennas, I'm satisfied to give this product 4 stars

doesn't work on parrot,kali or ubuntu linux only windows

So let me set the scene:a long long time ago I bought a budget gaming PC, nothing too fancy just enough to play some games from yesteryear...or even yester-decade...or even yester-century. Anyway it came with one of those mini-dongles that you could swallow with a glass of water and it was hopeless. Loses connection easily, and if there was another USB device plugged into the adjacent slot it wouldn't work at all. One of my problems is that I'm upstairs and the router is downstairs with no possibility of being moved.So I began a journey of finding a replacement wi-fi dongle and with mixed reviews everywhere...and some outrageous prices I decided to plump for this one. It was a little more expensive than what I set out to buy but ultimately, if it worked, it would be worth it.So far so great! Full strength and been using it for a few days now and no problems thus far. Will have to see how it holds up to the age of time, but I really recommend this for anyone who is having trouble maintaining a connection.

Trying to install drivers in Linux was a struggle, and in the end I gave up. works well with Windows.The extension cable is a good quality and long.

Not the perfect adapter for my pc. Tried several installations but to no avail. Had to refund.