StarTech.com Wireless USB WiFi Adapter – Dual Band AC600 Wireless Dongle - 2.4GHz / 5GHz - 802.11ac Wi-Fi Laptop Adapter (USB433ACD1X1)

Excellent device - installed without any difficulty on PC running Windows 10 latest version. Have bought a number of Startech items, all of which have been good. If you don't need the facility for 5.0GHz then this is an excellent value card for 2.4GHz. The included Ralink WLAN utility is also good with a decent interface. The instruction manual dated Oct 2013 doesn't go beyond the Windows 8 OS, but the advertised compatibility with Windows 10 proved correct.

I bought this because the Wi-Fi adapter in my laptop isn’t supported under MacOS. This little device worked perfectly after downloading the driver from Startech’s website (there is a CD in the box but I haven’t owned an optical drive in the last decade). Under Mojave it adds a separate Wi-Fi management utility and connection icon on the menu bar. Performance is ok, the device is discrete and was reasonably cheap.

My cable internet speed was increased recently from 60 mbps to 160 mbps but my laptop could only achieve the massive increase via an ethernet cable, but the internal wi-fi card couldn't cope. However, who wants to use a laptop with an umbilical cord.Having sourced this on the internet, and having had StarTech recommended to me by someone who knows about this stuff, I gave it a try.It was an extremely competitive price,arrived very quickly, and was a doddle to install. Just stick the accompanying CD in the drive, load up the driver, reboot,and stick the gadget in a USB socket. It was available in seconds (Windows 7), just stuck the password in on the available network (the 5G version) and bingo, 135 mbps download speed, wirelessly.It's narrower that a convensional USB stick, and has a protruding area about the size of a SIM card. Very neat. Haven't tried it at distance yet so can't comment although I did achieve >120 mbps in the adjoining room with a brick wall partition. I believe that the fall-off is greater with 5G than 2.4G.Would definitely recommend

I bought this to allow wirelss connection to my Dell desktop that does not have a wireless card. Very easy to set up and works very well.

Works as advertised,no problems at all (a rare gem in the world of wireless adapters).Put this one in an old Dell XPS M1530 which is running Windows 10 x64.This card is of the shorter form factor, so you may need a Mini PCI Express adapter / converter.

For some reason it doesn't pick up the top 5 Ghz band as opposed to the bottom 5 Ghz band. I have a Linksys one and that completely covers the 5 Ghz band. Using a three band router so whilst I had turned off the lower 5 Ghz band I had to switch it back on again. I suspect that it's defaulting to perhaps US settings but I have found no way to alter the channel bands. Bit of a mystery. The top band starts from channel 100.

used it with the raspberry pi. it was to small to stream pretty much anything. this hasnt got enough juice to stream let alone high quality hd files. it stuttered and really just in general couldnt handle what i was asking it to do. just as a note i got a belkin from argos instead for around £4 more and its been briliiant. its worth paying out the extra.

Great value. Excellent signal