📶 Enhanced NETGEAR WN111 Wireless-N 300 USB Adapter Review

It is difficult to find an adapter with such performance at such a price from a well-known brand. I work with Linksys and D-Link in the networking space, but neither of them had the capabilities of the N 300 USB receiver for less than $10. I bought it for a Win7 64 PC that I hardly ever use to connect to the internet. However, it worked perfectly to download all 30+ required updates and was good for Netflix too. It's big and white, it doesn't look good on the black Coolermaster case, but I…

Incredibly slow. Unless you put your computer right next to the router. But then it would defeat the purpose of a Wi-Fi adapter, right? I was blown away by how well it worked when I installed the latest drivers, but I was only two feet from the router. I parked my computer in the nearest (note: ten feet away) room, and lo and behold, the download speed dropped to a staggering 0.37 Mbps. I couldn't believe my eyes! In the end, my laptop, phone, and iPad (all tested at different times to avoid…

Cheap but not worth the time wasted trying to get this thing to work with Windows 7+. If you don't sell this item for <$5, keep searching. To save you a few hours of trouble; You need to download the 3.1 update drivers for Windows 7. Finding them isn't easy, don't grab the first package the Netgear website offers you. Check the release notes - there should be something about a bug that caused the device to "hang". Make sure to install it before uninstalling before installing new drivers. If…

I got this because I have a 10+ year old eMachine in my closet. I thought I'd retire it so my 4 and 5 year olds could use it for educational video games etc. - Not exactly Plun N Play - but I don't think it's an adapter issue - the old computer didn't have built-in WiFi. It works on XP. I think the operating system and the CD are faulty. The CD did not recognize the installation CD. I had to burn the disc to a flash drive from another (newer) computer so the old computer could recognize that I…

Beware of this adapter if you have Windows 7! I bought 3 of these to upgrade from the Belking adapters I had on 3 desktops. The drivers required for this are not downloaded automatically in Windows 7. I went to the Netgear website to download the drivers for Windows 7. I have read the installation instructions. My daughter did the install on her desktop, she said it was inconvenient and had some trouble with the install, but she did it. I think it suits her. I installed the software on a…

It is not compatible with 5GHz band, only 2.4GHz which is the most used band. But I use the faster 5GHz band for most of the devices in my house, so I was hoping it would be compatible. I had problems installing drivers. The driver disk that came with it didn't install the drivers properly on my old Windows 7 machine and kept giving me an error saying it couldn't be detected, even though I could clearly see that it was connected through Device Manager. Haven't tried installing on Windows 10…