Looks like a good deal for those whose computers don't have 5Ghz or the new AC wifi standard. Should get you speeds is 166Mbs.
But be quick it's a amazon lightning deal that I spotted late, only a few hours left.
Prime only
Btw fleabay selling at at least £11.99.
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fireman1
13 Jan 173#5
You don't get what you pay for?
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Bubuka83
13 Jan 17#1
ordered thanks
arch68
13 Jan 171#2
These are just cheap tat according to the reviews.
You get what you pay for!
DoctorDeals to arch68
13 Jan 17#3
wrong
ccnp to arch68
13 Jan 17#9
True. Amazon popped a 2.5" HDD case up for £4 recently and at that price, I bought 3 to house my old laptop HDDs safely. What a waste of time. Badly manufactured. USB port didn't even let a USB plug fit into it. Cheap is as cheap does to paraphrase the venerable Gump.
Gkains to arch68
13 Jan 17#10
But is it the hardware or the drivers?
Because while the description doesn't say, one of the photos is of the driver disc and it mentions RTL8811AU and at I've found Realtek's Win10 drivers to be very poor.
Had a TP-LINK USB N adapter using RTL8192CU and it would never connected after Windows 10 resumed from sleep. Tried a bunch of recent drivers from TP-LINK and Realtek without luck until I eventually forced a Win8.1 driver from 2013 which has worked for ages now. All of the more recent ones had the same resume bug though.
Only one of the cheaper TP-Link adapters but I don't think price has much to do with it. The most expensive Wifi adapter I ever bought was this LinkSys/Cisco for £25 or so (for 54Mbs 'G') and it had the worst drivers: resource usage-heavy and unreliable.
johnthehuman
13 Jan 171#4
Some unusual marketing of the product tbh :confused:
fireman1
13 Jan 173#5
You don't get what you pay for?
voicon
13 Jan 17#6
433mbps is pretty slow these days for 5ghz but for the price this is ok
Marvo434
13 Jan 17#7
100% claimed now, all you can do is join the wait list (which I have done, thanks OP)
VimesUK
13 Jan 17#8
Just joined the waiting list and actually got it. Did the same with the Eneloop batteries.!
Heat added and good luck for those on the list for grabbing one.
Thanks OP
Mecoconuts
13 Jan 17#11
Looking at the picture they are 'not new' either ....LOL
Mandroid578
13 Jan 17#12
Or add cold.
alanbeenthere
13 Jan 17#13
I wont use USB wifi dongles any more as they've always been unreliable, but heat at this price.
May be others have more luck than me.
the__cat to alanbeenthere
13 Jan 17#16
I use USB dongles to do professional Wifi site surveys. Never had a problem.
brbruno
13 Jan 17#14
I am using this on windows 10 and I'm finding ok so far but i never had an expensive or "tat" one to compare.
Deetea
13 Jan 17#15
300+ reviews already. Odd.
alanbeenthere
13 Jan 17#17
We used to use them in remote kiosks running sitekiosk and siteremote and the reports from them were a joke. Up down up down up down... we now use internal mini pci and not looked back.
:smiley:
the__cat
14 Jan 17#18
Well I suppose it helps if you use decent ones. The ones I use cost upwards of £60-70 at the very least. These cheap Chinese and Taiwanese cards are terrible, I'll agree.
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Opening post
But be quick it's a amazon lightning deal that I spotted late, only a few hours left.
Prime only
Btw fleabay selling at at least £11.99.
Top comments
All comments (18)
You get what you pay for!
Because while the description doesn't say, one of the photos is of the driver disc and it mentions RTL8811AU and at I've found Realtek's Win10 drivers to be very poor.
Had a TP-LINK USB N adapter using RTL8192CU and it would never connected after Windows 10 resumed from sleep. Tried a bunch of recent drivers from TP-LINK and Realtek without luck until I eventually forced a Win8.1 driver from 2013 which has worked for ages now. All of the more recent ones had the same resume bug though.
Only one of the cheaper TP-Link adapters but I don't think price has much to do with it. The most expensive Wifi adapter I ever bought was this LinkSys/Cisco for £25 or so (for 54Mbs 'G') and it had the worst drivers: resource usage-heavy and unreliable.
Heat added and good luck for those on the list for grabbing one.
Thanks OP
May be others have more luck than me.
:smiley: