Disappointing
I used this with my ASUS RT-N56u Diamond Dual Band Wireless Router and Win7 64bit. The router is very close to the PC - in my spare room across the passage, so less than 2m with two thin walls. 2.4G performance was as expected, with no issues. 5G was very disappointing - to the point of being useless. My network tests are pretty agricultural - just consisted of me copying large amounts of photos, documents and music to my NAS drive. On 2.4G, I saw transfer speeds of around 1Mb-2Mb/sec. 5G saw a huge increase - around 8Mb/sec, but sadly the link was dreadfully unreliable. Kept dropping out. The ASUS allows you to halve the bandwidth on the 5G link from 40MHz to 20 in order to increase reliability (but that rather defeats the object of buying a 5G adapter eh!) - this helped slightly, but did not cure the problem. The link lasted longer, but still kept dropping. I also tried using different channels, with no...
Excellent dongle
Great speeds obtainable on this throughout my house. HIGHLY recommended for anyone looking for good signal speed. Worth a try, although could be a little cheaper.
D-Link DWA-160
I have two of these already and a third on the way. It has a very handy slot at the top of the dongle which allows it to be hung up for good reception. I had three D-Link DWA-140 before with no trouble but needed to upgrade to use the 5 GHz band. By the way, the illustration shown is the old version. The latest version has a press button for automatic setup if desired although the manual setup is still available. The adaptor comes with the latest 2.40 software.
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