Alfa Network AWUS036AC 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

Ease of use? Easy to install USB, drivers auto-install with windows 10 so no effort needed. Comes with extender cable with was very usefull to add some distance from interference from computer and the wall between it and the router. Storage? Doesn't take up much space, especially if connected straight to computer without USB extender. Price? Cheap as it has both 2.4g and 5g meaning you can get the best speeds possible. Reliability? Great so far, though broke on of the antennas off when i caught it standing up Worth Buying? Really increased by broadband speeds to my desktop and used of laptop for great effect

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/2a7F3By It’s a really high quality cable, no problems experienced.

Excellent design and performance on both 2.4 ghz and 5 ghz bands. I am using this device with two vastly different machines and different operating systems. First machine is a 12-yr old Dell laptop (Latitude D610). I upgraded the memory modules but not the built in b/g wifi card. So the Alfa product appeared ideal. Though the packaging lists support for Linux, it was very far away from a plug-and-play experience. I spent close to two hours hunting for drivers on both the supplied CD and on the Alfa website. I'm using Lubuntu 16.04 and couldn't get the supplied driver to work. However Lubuntu has a generic (I guess chip related driver) that I finally got to work. Performance is fast and strong on the 2.4 ghz band but falters on a 5 Ghz ac signal. Having rolled out prior to the introduction of 802.11n, the Delll doesn't have the horsepower to run ac but was very happy to chug along at unprecedented wifi speeds (for that device) on an 802.11n signal. Now for machine 2, it's an Apple MacBook Pro Retina mid 2014. And on this the Alfa was a screamer! I registered all time records for both down/up including direct ethernet connections - i got over 200 down and 20 up. And best of all, in areas in the house where i previously got fringe or dropping/no wifi on either band, the Alfa delivered virtually full power in the 5 ghz band. I don't know how important the dual external antennas are but i suspect they are able to grab more signal and that they are optimised for beamforming in ac. There is little detail on the Alfa website. All in all, good device, works well on both bands and for a range of machines, but you need patience to get it working (at least for the non-Windows operating systems)

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.

i don't usually write reviews for certain products. But i felt i had to for this. What a great product this is. Totally transformed my computer system. Its got to have made the internet browsing speed 10x faster. Downloads are so fast now its unbelievable. And now my signal strength has improved as well Its so so easy to set up as well. Just pop in the cd and follow on-screen prompts. Hopefully i will never have to buy another wifi adaptor but if i had to it would be one of these.

Plugged it into a Windows 8 machine. It worked straight away - I like stuff like that. However, word of warning, at least in my case it wasn't until I selected it as the network (e.g. WIFI 2) then select the desired broadband router that it shows a decent signal strength. At first I was really disappointed as I connect to a MIFI device at the top of my house or a BT-With-Fon on my neighbours router I get 5 bars and 3 bars respectively. The Alfa showed 4 and 2 bars - e.g. worse than the built in wifi device. In actual fact, once connected its full bars and excellent signal.

Having tried to install this on no less than 5 different desktop PCs with no success at all, I am nearly at the point of packing it up for return to Amazon. Maybe something simple is going wrong but the User Manual is of little help and there is no real support here in the UK either by access to forums or by telephone. 4 of the PCs are Windows 10 and one Windows 7. After installing the software that comes on the included disk and restarting the PC I have had a variety of experiences. On one PC I could see the utility but the utility could not see the device receiving any of the numerous choices of wi-fi connections available although it appeared that the unit was enabled and had a signal of 432Gbs. On the Windows 10 PCs the utility would not run at all. I have downloaded the driver again from the Alpha website to no avail it seems to be the same as that on the disk anyway and dated 2014. On each of the computers I tried it on I was careful to disable the ethernet cable adaptor and try to enable the Realtek wi-fi adaptor. Whether this happened or not (on some PCs it just wouldn't enable) the blue light on the dongle would remain flashing and no connections were reported. The WIndows troubleshooters all report a problem with the wireless driver. Grateful for any ideas please?

Brilliant wireless adapter, highly reliable and an extremely good price. I use Virgin Media and the speed entering the property can hit 300mbs on a wired connection, I need a decent receiver on my main desktop for gaming and it has to be low ping. My desktop is situated 15m away and 3 floors up from the Virgin 3.0 hub and I get speeds of 60mbs on speedtest.net and have often seen downloads on steam of 10mb/s. I would buy another one of these if needed! Probably the best on the market for the price.

This product is very good for pentesters it helps every single programs and windows Linux and security testing features with it.

Got this product delivered very quickly. Now all the computers and laptops in the house are connected via WiFi. Bought this USB WiFi adapter for its range, as my wireless router is 2 floors away, and in the diagonal position through the structure of the house. it's very easy to set up. Just installed the driver and plugged in this adapter, and hey, it worked on the first connect. Reception signal reading is much than the laptop and two other USB adapters without the big antennas. So now I can crank down a bit of the transmission power of my wireless router and still keep computers in all rooms connected without any issue. Recommend it (generally with big antennas) if you need to get reception through several floor and walls. Hey if you still have issues getting signal, the flexible antennas are there for a reason. Imagine a huge donut shape radio transmission cloud around the antenna, and make sure your wireless router is in the cloud. Hope this helps.

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MI EXPERIENCIA: Quería contaros mi experencia ya que he quedado totalmente alucinada con este dispositivo. Vivo en un duplex y en el piso superior o en la terraza era toda una odisea recibir señal wifi para conectarme al portatil (un HP Spectre x360) por eso decidí comprar un adaptador wifi usb. Tengo contratato el adsl de movistar de hasta 30 Mb y el resultado tras realizar diversos tests ha sido pasar de una velocidad de descarga de aproximadamente 2 Mb a 28 Mb. Respecto al número de redes detectadas he pasado de 4 a 18. Con estos datos creo que no hay nada más que añadir... Estoy encantada. De hecho, ya he pedido un segundo adaptador para la casa de mis padres. EL DISPOSITIVO: Este receptor wifi USB Alfa AWUS036AC tiene un buen acabado, con un bonito color negro brillante y dos 2 antenas de 5dBi cada una. Usa el estándar 802.11ac (el más rápido) con lo que llega a velocidades de hasta 1200mbps (el modelo anterior llegaba a 867Mbps). Al principio puede resultar un poco aparatoso ya que las dos antenas no son precisamente pequeñas, pero si coloco el adaptador en el puerto usb más alejado de mi teclado puedo trabajar perfectamente. Teniendo en cuenta lo que gano en velocidad entiendo que las antenas deban ser de ese tamaño. Viene con usb 3.0 y como el resto de antenas de Alfa network es compatible con Windows, Mac y Linux (importante si queréis utilizarlo con Wifislax). CONTENIDO DEL PAQUETE: Usb Dos antenas de 5dBi CD con drivers Mini manual de usuario (en inglés y castellano) FUNCIONAMIENTO En mi caso, con un portatil HP Spectre x360 con Windows 10 el funcionamiento ha sido mega sencillo: acoplar las dos antenas al usb, conectarlo al portatil y automáticamente ha detectado la señal wifi amplificada. Como curiosidad he probado el cd de drivers y, aunque en mi caso no lo he necesitado, veo que vienen los drivers para Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, Mac 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 y Linux. EL PRECIO: Ahora podéis encontrar exactamente el mismo dispositivo pero 6 euros más barato en otro vendedor de amazon. Yo ya he solicitado el cambio.