StarTech.com Wireless USB WiFi Adapter – Dual Band AC600 Wireless Dongle - 2.4GHz / 5GHz - 802.11ac Wi-Fi Laptop Adapter (USB433ACD1X1)

StarTech products just work. No BS. Great quality. Plug n' Play - no driver install needed on my Windows 11 laptop. Keep it this way StartTech. Thank you!

Looks like it works well on my Mac, a mid-2011 iMac with Sierra 10.12.5. Software downloaded and installed easily. Plugged in the device and it and the Apple Airport wifi were recognized immediately. Wifi connected with no problem. I use Little Snitch firewall/monitor and the seem to coexist just fine.My Mac's internal wifi card has been suspect for several years. After a few hours or minutes, it would claim to be connected at full strength but there was no network access. Had to turn wifi off/on to recover. No software or firmware fixes that I could find would solve the problem, and there were no problems with other devices. So far, this device has stayed connected. It supports the newer "ac" standard (Mac was b/g/n) could potentially be faster, but I'm on satellite which is the limiting factor. I immediately noticed that web pages start to load faster, and unexpected surprise. Measured download speed hasn't changed. Perhaps my internal wifi card was ailing worse than I realized.Some caveats:- Signal reception is good, but less than the original. This is as expected given the tiny size of the device. If you need range, consider one that comes with an external antenna. (This one does not, contrary to one posting that I saw for it).- The negotiated data rate is about half what an adjacent iPad shows and slightly less than an iPhone at the same location. I expect that this is partially a function of the antenna size and resulting signal quality.- This uses its own wifi control thingy, not the MacOSX control. It is a bit simplistic, so there could be a feature that you might miss.- As with all third party devices and software, there is always a potential for issues with on-going support and update timeliness.

Just updated to a Win 11 Pro HP PC Tower replacing a very old (10 yrs) but still a very Powerful HP PC Tower. I'm moving the old PC to a remote area in the home to make room for the New HP PC Tower and needed WiFi for it since it's not equipped with embedded WiFi capability. Looked around Amazon at several different WiFi Adapters and found this simple yet powerful USB WiFi Receiver. I have to say, I have used USB WiFi sticks, etc., in the past and they were so so, but this model here is Extremely Fast and handles a great deal of Data and Video Streaming with ease!! Could not be happier with the performance and the simplicity of the device, as well as the ease of installation!! I Highly Recommended this StarTec USB WiFi Receiver for folks like myself who just cannot part with an older device, it's like an old friend.... The StarTec WiFi Receiver is FANTASTIC, and my Old PC Greatly Appreciates it!!!!

Works well. have it on a 14 year old lap top with Windows 7 to create a faster wifi connection than the internal wireless adapter.- One thing I noticed, is that it will interfere with a cell phone if the cellphone's Bluetooth is turned on.It's almost like being on a call and then starting your car and the car's Bluetooth takes over. So I just have my phone's Bluetooth turned off when sitting in front of my laptop.

Wireless in internal laptop started to become unreliable. It was either a hardware or software failure. Even a software update did not fix it. Purchased this StarTech unit to use as an alternate.Installed Windows driver for this Startech unit, inserted USB wireless NIC, configured wireless SSID, and wireless was stable and reliable. It connects properly and reliably to high security business wireless that has WIPS protections. I would only get 802.11ac. The low profile is nice. It is important that it is low profile so that it does not get broken off in the USB port.

This adapter is the bottom of the barrel. Maybe good for a laptop that you don’t use for many things besides internet and maybe words. Lags a lot with high demanding apps and also drops signal frequently. Don’t buy this if you want something cheap. There are other cheap options 100x better.

Worked in Windows 10 right out of the box! I did not need to download any drivers from Startech or use the supplied mini-cd that had the drivers on it. It was totally plug and play for me. I literally took it out of the box and plugged it in and Windows 10 installed its driver and I was up and running in seconds. I have Verizon Fios 50/50 and I did the speedtest.net test and got 56/68 with this little adapter. Some background. I have a Samsung laptop that had the built-in internal Wi-Fi adapter go bad. I went into the bios and disabled the onboard Wi-Fi adapter and plugged the StarTech USB adapter in its place. The speed I am now getting is nearly double what the onboard adapter was capable of providing. I believe my onboard adapter was only a G standard compared to this new N version in the StarTech. Not sure if this has a lot to do with it or not, but I am getting maximum bandwidth from this little dongle. My laptop has only USB 2.0 which is plenty fast enough for this device. If you have a newer machine with USB 3.0, you might want to consider the AC version of this device unless your onboard Wi-Fi is already at that speed. I am totally impressed with the ease of installation and speed of this little adapter. If you upgraded to Windows 10 it should work out of the box, but I can't verify this since I did a clean install of Windows 10 on a new Samsung EVO SSD that I also put in the same laptop a week ago. Your results may very, but at a minimum, if it doesn't work out of the box like mine did, just install the drivers from StarTech.com under the "support" tab for this device and you will be fine.