Review on 🐼 Panda Ultra WiFi (b/g/n) 150Mbps Wireless-N 2.4GHz USB Adapter - Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OS X, Ubuntu 12.04 TLS, Fedora 17 and Puppy 5.3.3 Support by John Mejia

This Panda N wireless USB adapter has been described as plug-n-play and fully compatible with Linux. I plugged this adapter into the USB socket and in a moment the system (Linux MINT 17) proudly announced numerous WiFi IDs asking which one I would like to connect to. I entered the security key and this cutie has been working fine ever since. I figured I might need to provide an initial wired connection for Linux to load the correct driver, but this Panda adapter worked right out of the box. No performance rating, it stays within 15 feet of the router and shows 100% reception. There's also a wireless network icon that flickers dull blue when there's network activity. It's nice to visually know it's online and working. Impressive. painless. A few more of these and I could happily move my various systems to other places in the house. Update Dec 2014: Also plug and play with Debian, PClinuxOS, apparently every Debian Ubuntu Mint OS I've tried on an old Dell Inspiron. with an AMD chip and only 1GB of RAM "not visible" to CentOS, it just doesn't find that adapter, which is strange since, like Fedora, it's based on Red Hat. May work with these distros on a newer PC (ie older than 5 years). Just a premonition. Update January 2015: Decided to upgrade my old WiFi adapters, so I compared Panda to other brands: all connection speeds are in the same range (on my gigabit router with N150-N400 WiFi connection) and Panda beats all others in the Signal strength up by about 15% according to my Linux network tools.