Maxesla Wifi Adapter - AC1200 USB Wifi Dongle,5dBi Dual Band 2.4/5GHz Wireless Network Adapter for PC/Desktop/Laptop/Tablet, Compatible with Windows, Mac OS X

Bought this for my son as he had a gaming PC that did not have WiFi built in. On ethernet he was getting a speed in the region of 800Mbs and when this was used he got around 260, quite a drop off but still good enough for his needs. It was easy to install, just plug and play. No need to download any drivers or anything, worked from the box. In all, a good piece of kit for the money.

We have just had ultrafast broadband installed, but I was finding that my cabled network wasn't giving the best speeds from the router. My mobile phone which could connect on the 5Ghz band was getting much better speeds. My laptop which is pretty old only had 2.4Ghz built in so I looked around for a solution and found this. At first I tried to plug in the unit assuming that Windows 10 would simply recognise the unit on usb straight away but it didn't. I then followed the instructions to use the supplied disc and bingo, it worked. I had to tell the Realtek utility which band to connect to and that was it. There were other more expensive options from bigger suppliers but this works well enough and it's difficult to see how spending more would get you better performance. My broadband supply speed is 108Mb/s at the router. This antenna gives 92 Mb/s on my laptop at a distance of 12 metres on a different floor of the house. This unit seems to me to be very good value for money and it works very well.I have no connection to the supplier or manufacturer, just thought it might be helpful for people to benefit from my experience.

Just bought this product for my laptop as the Wi-Fi on my laptop was very old and it didn't have the best signal/ power to reach my main router, when I received the package, which was quick, i simply plugged it into my laptop and it took 60seconds to turn on and connect, i didnt have to manually install any drivers which is great! and on top of that, my speed has drastically increased 10x, the only issue is that although its increased my wifi speed for my laptop it hasnt been able to reach its maximum.. in the end its convenient, i would highly recommend those for better connection, its also very reliable!

Plug and play for zgemma h11s, openpli 9.0, no need to install drivers, just plug in and that’s it.

I was very sceptical at first as my PC is upstairs in a converted loft and didn't think that the distance from my pc to my router would reach the antenna as it literally looked like a usb stick with an optional antenna attachment, however after attaching said antenna and literally plugging it into the USB 3.0 Port at the back of my PC , my PC recognised it as a Wi-Fi USB stick and installed the drivers before I could get back up from behind the computer and check the screen to see if it was recognised by windows then went onto proceed to give me the entire neighbourhoods selection of access points I could connect to including 5ghz connections which even my PS4 isn't even capable of connecting too despite being right next to my router.The USB adapter does come with a small form factor disk not to dissimilar to a GameCube disk if anyone is familiar with those consoles and instructions, however now a days windows 10 recognizes pretty much everything you plug into it unless it is not working. And it couldn't be anymore simpler than that. Plug it in and connect to the internet. Works wonders so far .

Initially i would have given this 5 stars as it works great on my pc. One slightly annoying thing is the software sometimes defaults to Radio Off, seems to happen randomly.Dropped it by 2 stars as I bought a second one, for which i would give it 1 star . Not for this device as such but for the appalling software that simply will not open on my other windows 10 pc and i cannot work out why not. There is also no support, they ignore my e-mails.

Bought this to replace a problematic built-in network adapter in my Lenovo IdeaCentre PC which had stability issues on 5Ghz wireless channel from my router. At the price I didn't see I had anything to lose. Firstly you DO NOT need to use the supplied driver/utility CD for installation on Windows 10 and on installation the unit locked onto my 5GHz wifi immediately so I disabled the built-in adapter via the windows device manager. It works OK using USB 2.0 port but I got buffering when trying to stream HD video, so changed to USB 3.0 port and problem was resolved. Data throughput was measured at 433mbps and perfectly stable. I suspect this limitation over what the claimed throughput could be is down to the router/PC combination so maybe a higher spec PC would give higher speed advantages.Overall I'm satisfied that this is a good USB wifi adapter at a price that's exceptional. No-fuss installation is also a bonus but remember you will should use Windows device manager to disable any built-in adapters to prevent potential driver and firewall conflicts.

I used this last year to get around not having an Ethernet cable connection. And it was bad. It got the job done but still sucked. It was slow, it was cutting out every now and then.Moved house and needed to use it again. Only this time it was worse than mobile data, and just kept cutting out which made online gaming extremely difficult. It got so bad now that on top of putting me under a lot of stress, I smashed it up. DO NOT BUY THIS.