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Review on Tenda U9 11AC USB Wifi Adapter - Dual Band 2.4/5G AC650 Wireless Network Card, Windows Compatible and Compact in Black by Goro Ueda ᠌

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Not a bad product, but you can find a better one.

Tenda U9 is what I used to replace the antiquated TP-Link adapter, which is incapable of functioning in the 5GHz frequency range. Tenda is satisfied, confidently pulls downloads, does not cut down, and picks up Wi-Fi immediately when launching the operating system. Ping leaps and occasionally loses packets, however this only happens in games. Pinging Google reveals the same thing: a consistent loss of packets accompanied by jumps in the ping rate. If you plug it into an adjacent USB port, then there will be no loss for the next minute; after that, it will begin again. I updated the drivers, read a bunch of recommendations, turned off a lot of things in Windows 10, tried to do something on the command line, and connected it via a USB extension connection; however, none of these things were successful in fixing the issue. For the sake of comparison, the old TP-Link did not give itself permission to do this, but it cannot be compared in any other way. I even started to wonder if the new adapter was getting too hot to handle. In general, a great number of things have to be done in order to ensure that saving is a poor choice. While it is a fine adaptor for passive usage, active users should avoid it at all costs. I didn't check it till late in the game after I bought it; otherwise, I would have returned it.

Pros
  • It is self-contained in terms of driver installation. If you don't reduce the number of torrents, the reception will be fine.
Cons
  • Ping hops and packets are lost when playing video games. When pinging Google, which is the same thing, the connection is quick yet sporadic.