NETGEARA6210-100PES AC1200 802.11ac Dual Band (300/867 Mbps) High Gain Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter, Black

I built myself a new desktop PC a few days ago, finally moving back from laptops/all-in-ones, mainly for work purposes. I got an affordable WiFi adaptor and found my internet right down at standard Broadband speeds (5Mbps or so), which was frustrating. After upgrading to this thing, though, it shot up to the kind of speed I'd expect from my fibre connection, and about a third faster than any of my laptops or all-in-one computers reached.If I use the dock and cable and sit this thing on my desk, I get around 35Mbps from speedtest.net. That's right - it comes with a desktop dock, so you can move it away from all the interference your computer will cause and get maximum results. In desktop mode it also unfolds and extends if you need to squeeze a little extra speed out of it. I keep it folded up as it looks much nicer and tidier on my desk that way, but unfolding it does grant me a couple of extra Mbps if I'm in a squeeze (let's be honest, that's not often).If you're using a laptop and don't want to use the desktop dock, unfolded it'll sit at a decent distance from it to cut down on interference, but to be fair most laptops have built in WiFi these days, so you're more likely going to be using this on a desktop. To be honest, you need to use the desktop dock, because it's a little wideand plugged into a tower you'll find it ends up pointing sideways and obscuring the neighbouring USB ports, but the option is there if you really don't want it to be sitting on your desk.Sorted out all my WiFi problems and then some! Nice one guys!Also, I can confirm this is working like a charm on Windows 10 - UPDATE! After just under a month of use, one day I turned my PC on and it just didn't want to connect to the internet. After a lot of trial and error and frustration, the solution was to completely remove all traces of NetGear's drivers and just let Windows 10 do it's thing. In other words - IF YOU WANT THIS THING TO WORK WELL ON WINDOWS 10, DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE! JUST PLUG IT IN AND LET WINDOWS DO THE REST. NetGear's own software can cause conflict in Windows 10, but Windows 10 already has its own drivers etc to handle it for you.

I bought this to replace my old WNDA3200 which connected my pc in the basement to my bt home hub 5. My old wireless adapter struggled with the connection and could not connect on the 5 GHz channel. This connected easily first time, i have had no issues with it and in terms of range and speed it has been great.The only downsides are it doesnt sit too well in the desk stand and wireless AC speeds arent uber fast, when windows tells me my netowrkspeed itaverages at aorund 500 Mbps

This is a great network adapter. Annoyingly as a gamer, due to the position of my room and my router wired isn't an issue and I've always had drop outs with my wireless connection and the wiring in my house is so old that powerline adapters have never worked well. I've spent a fortune on routers and adapters for my PC and have always had issues, though I managed to get a decent connection I never quite managed to eliminate the drop outs completely.I got this with the intent of upgrading my ASUS router to a new version that supports beamforming but after getting this adapter my dropouts have completely gone so I'm still using my old router. I've had a very consistent internet connection since getting this and haven't been seeing the frequent drop outs I've had in the past. Add to that that it's at the cheaper end of the spectrum and I'm completely sold on it.It took no effort at all to set up, I just plugged it in and it was ready to go.

Edit : UpdateThis Adapter is NOT Windows 10 Compatible. It gives me a blue screen every time it tries to or connects to the internet. Wish I could send it back as not fit for purpose. Very very disappointed.............Arrived next day, well packaged. Web address listed in the accompanying excellent "How To" guide on where to download drivers. It does come with a CD but I have no CD drive in my pc. Drivers easily found, downloaded and extracted files. Ran the exe, set up started and ran with no problems, after a very brief whirr and please wait, it asked to plug in the device. The Adapter was easily assembled and pulled out a bit like a transformer and fitted into the blue SS USB 3.0 port perfectly. Clicked "next", I decided not the use WPS method - I really hate the idea of running around the house jabbing vainly at buttons on devices, it prompted me for the router password and boom, my signal went from poor to Good and my mbps from 13 mbps to around 500 mbps in a few seconds. I used to suffer dropped access around 10 times a day but now, not a signal drop since I installed the Netgear and that was 6 hours ago. I am one happy bunny!

I bought this at the end of 2015 and have been using it for almost a year on Windows 7 64-bit. It has caused me no end of grief, I installed the drivers from the DVD as told by the quick start guide, and inserted the USB adapter into my desktop PC, and it was recognised and worked straight away, which was a good start. However this is when it went downhill, since then I get constant disconnects, and very slow performance, even though the Wifi signal is full bars all the time. When it disconnects from the router the only way I can get it to reconnect is to disable it in the Windows device manager and then re-enable it. Updating to the latest drivers did not help, updating the router drivers also did not help. It wasn't until 2 weeks ago that I searched online and found plenty of people with the same problems. So last week I bought a cheap 7.99 USB wifi adapter from TP Link to try, and since then have had awesome performance, and no disconnects. So my advice is, don't bother with this and get something else.