TLDR: Looking for suggestions on 5GHz adapters. Narrowed down to these on my own, other suggestions welcome. I'm looking for a 5GHz wireless adapter for my desktop. Pretty common situation, always ...

Strong signal bars hid a deeply unreliable connection.

USB Wi-Fi adapters allow you to add wireless internet capabilities to computers that wouldn’t otherwise have it. These may be older devices that never came with a Wi-Fi adapter or newer ones that have ...

As far as the top or best WiFi USB adapters are concerned, the choices are plenty. But if we have to pick one model, it has to be the Netgear Nighthawk. This dual band adapter offers a wide range of ...

I'm fixing up an old laptop for my niece that has an old 2.4GHz 11n Wi-Fi adapter in it, which can't be upgraded much because Lenovo locked it down to whitelisted adapters in the BIOS. I'm plugging in ...

Totolink's A2000UA AC1200 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter offer a surprisingly rich feature set, but its performance is lacking. The A2000UA looks like a shrunken router. Two 7-inch 4dBi antennas jut ...

A frequent reader problem related to Wi-Fi—one I hear all the time as a result of having written books about Wi-Fi and Apple’s AirPort base stations for a decade—is getting good coverage, even when a ...

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