MAXDIGI USB wifi adapter 5g, usb ac600 wifi dongle 802.11ac Dual Band 600 Mbps wifi usb wireless for pc antenna Laptop, wifi card ac adapter Support Windows 11/10/8/7/Vista/XP/2000,Mac Os X 10.5-10.15

WiFi died on my venerable HP laptop (Win 10 Pro). This has proved to be an excellent solution!I had to disable the on-board WiFi in Device Manager as the laptop BIOS didn't have that option. I then downloaded the necessary drivers to my PC (as per the helpful email sent by the seller prior to arrival of the dongle).I then heard this tremendous banging on the front door. This heralded the arrival of the lunatic delivery driver who seems unable to recognise a doorbell. Anyway, after the usual apologies for the disturbance to people in the adjacent 3 parishes, I popped the dongle into a USB port on the laptop and without fuss, everything burst into life and I had, for the first time, 5GHz WiFi on my laptop (it previously only supported 2.4GHz).Everything works well and the speed improvement is noticeable with large file transfers across our home LAN and MESH WiFi.So, other than with the lunatic who does most of our local PRIME deliveries, I am very pleased indeed. Compared with high street prices, this dongle is also excellent value.It's a tad surprising this device isn't PnP (and requires the download of drivers). However, the installation was simple and painless.

Super-easy to install. With Windows 10 [build 1909] I didn't need to install any drivers first from either the supplied CD or the download link - I just plugged the dingle into an available USB port and within seconds I had a new WiFi network available on my desktop PC.Only one minor bit of configuration was that the initial connexion to the WiFi router was only at 72Mbps so, must have only been on a 2.4GHz band. This was easily resolved by configuring the new Network adapter in Device Manager: in the 'Advanced' tab there is a list item for 'Wireless Mode' which I changed from 'Auto' to 'IEEE 802.11a/n/ac'. Boom! - connexion speed now 433Mbps.If I'd installed the driver first maybe that bit of config wouldn't have been needed... but that settings tweak might just help somebody else. You DO need a router that supports these 5GHz network protocols though, obviously.Once installed, the new WiFi connexion seems to be working perfectly so far - would definitely recommend this if you need a super-quick way of enabling WiFi on a PC :).

This is a modern, fully featured plug and play wifi dongle at a great price. I have used many similar devices through the years, but this proves to be the most stable and hassle free of all. Great signal reception, no disconnection issues, no complains in general.If you are not a fan of blinking LED lights, you can easily cover the tiny little one existent on this dongle with some blue tac or coloured tape.

This is a very good USB wireless adapter, great reception on both bands. I'm only marking it down as the drivers are supplied on a mini CD which many modern CD readers no longer support. I ended up having to use my wife's laptop to copy the drivers onto a USB stick because Windows 10 could not find drivers online and neither could I.

I chose this one mainly because it looked different to the others.Some of which were rated low so difficult to guess the good from the bad when they looked the same.My PC isnt that far from the router, around the maximum length of the ether cable would fit, this dongle has given me more freedom in that respect, no more tight cable.Unfortunately I'm not able to say anything about overall range.I'm running Win 10 homeI plugged in the dongle , entered my wifi password and was online immediately, I didnt use the supplied Disk.It came in robust blister pack and delivered quickly.Not much more to say other than it works and I'm happy with my purchase.Update March 2022Still working fine and coping well with the 36Mbps fibre I'd upgraded to last year.

Item purchased: Sept19Enclosed CD: make sure you wipe it thoroughly before use otherwise you make have problems reading it, however I would not bother as the drivers on it are old and you're better off downloading more recent ones (for windows) if it is not automatically recognised.w10 auto recognised: This seems to depend on which revision of W10 you're running, some of my earlier W10 laptops did not recognise it and i had to use the downloaded drivers, whilst others recognised it from the box !Linux: Totally and completely forget the enclosed CD, it is completely useless, does not even have the required tar driver, you can downloaded later version but (a) they are kernel dependent and (b) disto dependent and furthermore the install.sh file doesn't work.If you want to get it to work under linux (I only tried this on ubuntu-mate 18.04) you need to git clone from brektrou/rtl8821CU and install the dkms package -linux admins will know what this means.Overall once i got it working I got around 450Mbps on the 5GH-ac channel whilst in the same room as the router. Not too shabby for a cheapish dongle.Anyway, hope above helps other installation sufferers.

Bought to replace a broken internal Wi-Fi adaptor on a Lenovo laptop. Windows recognised and installed the drivers straight away. Has worked without issue since. Recommended.