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Best Wireless Card or Dongle Dual-Radio?

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  • 1.  Best Wireless Card or Dongle Dual-Radio?

    Posted Jan 22, 2014 09:32 AM

    I am looking to purchase a dongle or wireless card (preferrably USB dongle) for my laptop.

     

    I am not sure which offers the best price performance.

     

    I obviously need something that is dual-radio 2.4 and 5

    802.11ac is a bonus but not sure if these dongles are mature enough...

     

    What do you recommend?



  • 2.  RE: Best Wireless Card or Dongle Dual-Radio?

    Posted Jan 22, 2014 04:47 PM

     

    I bought the following a couple of months ago and its been pretty good :

    http://support.linksys.com/en-us/support/adapters/AE3000

     

    I haven't had any good experience with the 11ac USBs ( Netgear , Linksys , Asus) but I read in a couple forums that some of those issues have been addressed with newer firmware 



  • 3.  RE: Best Wireless Card or Dongle Dual-Radio?

    Posted Jan 23, 2014 03:52 PM

    Seems like a good product, I can find one for $55, worth it to try it out.

     

    Thanks Victor



  • 4.  RE: Best Wireless Card or Dongle Dual-Radio?

    Posted Feb 22, 2014 04:46 PM

    Do you guys know any wireless dongle dual radio in which the manufacters actually care about firmware upgrades?

    I got a AE3000 but linksys does not care about the firmware upgrades... for example i put it on a windows 8 machine and yes i got it to work but as there is no drivers for windows 8 the max speed i get its 54mbps... when the dongle is capable of 450 in a band...

     

    Cheers

    Carlos