Review on 🔌 Edimax EW-7833UAC AC1750 Dual-Band Wi-Fi USB 3.0 Adapter, Compatible with Windows 7/8/8.1/10, Mac, and Linux, in White by Charles Notti

I bought an Edimax EW-7833UAC AC1750 Dual Band USB WiFi Adapter. I have two issues with this product: speed and Linux support. Since speed is more important to most people, I'll talk about that first. This map is very rough. After installing and configuring the drivers in Windows, I noticed that my downloads were slowing down to a bare minimum and websites were taking a very long time to load. Having an ethernet cable that could run through my living room to my router and a Netgear card I bought from BestBuy a while back, I decided to test them all. Here are my results from Speedtest.net: Wired Ethernet: 50.89 Mbps down, 5.11 Mbps down. Netgear 2.4 GHz card: 30.03 Mbps down, 5.11 Mbps down. Netgear 5.0 GHz card: 50.76 Mbps down, 5.04 Mbps down. Mbps up Edimax AC1750 5.0 GHz: 1.70 Mbps down, 5.06 Mbps up So in summer this adapter is about 20-25 times slower than my other wireless download speed adapter. And that was when the AC1750 was plugged into a USB 3.0 port and Netgear used USB 2.0. I'm not sure why the download speed was working correctly with a 5.0GHz connection, but I ran a few tests (disabling and enabling connections in Windows) and they seemed pretty consistent. After advertising 450Mbps/1300Mbps, the actual result was very depressing. If I didn't have another wireless adapter, I would assume it's my router. But it was definitely this card. Now for Linux support. I got this adapter because my Netgear card doesn't support Linux and I recently installed Ubuntu 16.04. When I saw "Linux" in the title of the page, I thought that was a good deal and would suit me. And so it happened. The official drivers only work with kernel version 4.4, which is way below what my new Ubuntu installation used. I was eventually able to find a git repo that had been recently updated with good drivers, but it took a lot of digging, a 20-foot network cable through my living room, and quite a bit of hair pulling. Finally he could work. That's why I'm giving two stars instead of one because he did what I needed to do, albeit poorly and only after a lot of work on my part.