Asus (PCIE-AX1800) AX1800 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Wi-Fi 6 Adapter, Bluetooth 5.2, WPA3, OFDMA & MU-MIMO

Great quality. Moved house and the phone socket is not near where I put the pc so I had to switch to wifi rather than running cables. This has done the job perfectly. No increase in ping times vs using ethernet, no issue with signal strength, no issue with reliability, no issue with speeds, no issues with packet loss. I can download on it, stream for hours and game on it wit no issues at all. I use 5ghz for most things and 2.4ghz for streaming as my streaming device doesn't support 5ghz. No issues with any of it.The external antenna is great as I can put them up on the table instead of being stuck behind the pc and it makes it easy to move around a bit if you need a better signal. Cable for it could have been slightly longer but its easily long enough to get from a pc on the floor up to a desk.Of course your performance may vary depending on how much interference you have and how many other people are using wifi nearby on the channel you have chosen. Use something like "inssider" to scan the wifi in your area and see which channels have less people on them and then use those channels. Avoid *partially* overlapping other wifi networks as this just causes both networks to see each other as noise, if you have to use a channel that overlaps another network then you are better to use the SAME channel as them so that you completely overlap, the 2 networks then see that it is another wifi network rather than interference and can live together better to share the bandwidth rather than if you have a partial overlap of your signal which just results in them constantly fighting each other as they think it's noise.

Great and affordable. Hassle free connectivity!!! Runs my broadband full speed as opposed to some other ones not worth mentioning..

I have a lovely desktop PC from 2018, and the PCI card stopped functioning when I changed to 'fibre-to-the-premises' a few months ago. I tried rebooting drivers etc but no success, I left the ethernet cable from the BT extender plugged in (but this left it trailing over the floor).The PC has an Asus motherboard and so I had some difficulty finding a new WIFI card to replace the old Asus basic model form other manufacturers, so I opted for this model.I had needed to enable TPM 2.0 on the pc so that it could upgrade to Windows 11, and this also played an important role in deciding whether to get it.It all works brilliantly.It uses an on-board usb power supply (I think it's for Bluetooth) and I only have 2 so I unplugged my SD card reader as I have en external one.It came with CD software and it installed all of it first time.I instantly saw a threefold increase in wifi speed using an online speed-tester and it meets the BT claim for my full fibre service.My PC then updated to Windows 11 and the PCI card works perfectly.Having the aerials moveable with the magnetic base means I can get the best speed from the broadband router.Job done.

Tested in conjunction with the Asus RT-AC87U Router.To test it I popped a Sandisk Extreme USB3.0 memory stick into the router. I have a 3.1GB ISO of Windows 7 Home Premium on the SSD of my PC (upstairs). I installed the Asus PCE-AC68 adapter on 5.0GHz AC with beam-forming enabled. I copied the ISO from the PC to the USB memory stick and got 1058Mbps. Holy bandwidth Batman! That’s beating a wired gigabit Ethernet connection! OK my PC is in the room directly above the router, but that is still impressive for a USB file transfer over WiFi. The copy was running at an average of 25MB/s and the whole copy took a little over 2 minutes.With the recommended ports forwarded, I was getting an average ping of 10 on UK servers of BF3. I played for over three hours without a SINGLE hitch, lag spike, rubber band or dropped connection. I suppose I had just gotten use to the occasional stutter, so it was very noticeable in its absence.I have a 100MB down service from Virgin Media. Whenever I ran Speedtest.net with my TP-link 2.4GHz 400Mbps USB adapter connected to the Superhub I would get it hovering around the 80MB mark on a good day (right after a Superhub power-cycle). Typically though it would be more like 60 to 70MB. With this router and the PCE-AC68 adapter it ALWAYS maxes out at 107MB down.The magnetic base is very strong and the cable is long of you are planning on mounting on your case. You'll struggle if you want it further away though. The Asus utility is straight-forward and easy to use, and provides useful network status and connection info.My only minor quibble is that the PCIE backplate (where you connect the aerials) has an absurdly bright blue LED to flash when there is traffic. At night this lights up my room so I've blacked it out with a CD marker pen. No stars off for this though. The performance so far has been perfect.