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The following extension cable may be useful for use with this and similar usb wifi adapters:
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Review: (2024-04-24) I now have one of these adapters.

I tested this adapter for several days in client (managed) mode. I pushed it hard with iperf3. The client system is using Debian 12. The adapter was plug and play. I updated the driver firmware per the Firmware guide in the Main Menu. I could not find any problems. The adapter was fast and very stable. I did not notice any thermal related issues even though I pushed it at max WiFi 6 throughput for extended periods. The case of the adapter does have vent holes. When you combine well done vent holes with a chip that runs cool to begin with, there are no thermal problems. I need to do more testing but right now, indications are that it has better than average range and the antennas are removable. I consider that to be a really good feature. As I have time, I will test it with some Alfa antennas to see what happens. Lately, the adapter has been running in AP mode using my AP mode guide here on the Main Menu. I am using the WiFi 6 hostapd.conf example. AP mode performance has been very good. It is very stable with 5 GHz WiFi 6 AP mode. It has an LED that serves as a powered up indicator. At the time of this review, When I look at the Amazon reviews, reviews I see some less than perfect reviews but I think Linux users can ignore that. It appears that all of the lower rated reviews are from Windows users that are complaining about finding a driver. As Linux users, we don't worry about that since the adapter is plug and play on Linux as long as the kernel you are using is kernel 5.19 or later. My testing is with kernel 6.6 and I have not found any problems that would affect daily use by regular desktop or laptop users. My overall opinion is that this adapter is a good adapter and the price is good. Most Linux users running modern Linux distros such as Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 or fedora 39, the recently released Kali, etc. should find this adapter to be a problem free experience.
I tested this adapter for several days in client (managed) mode. I pushed it hard with iperf3. The client system is using Debian 12. The adapter was plug and play. I updated the driver firmware per the Firmware guide in the Main Menu. I could not find any problems. The adapter was fast and very stable. I did not notice any thermal related issues even though I pushed it at max WiFi 6 throughput for extended periods. The case of the adapter does have vent holes. When you combine well done vent holes with a chip that runs cool to begin with, there are no thermal problems. I need to do more testing but right now, indications are that it has better than average range and the antennas are removable. I consider that to be a really good feature. Lately, the adapter has been running in AP mode using my AP mode guide here on the Main Menu. I am using the WiFi 6 hostapd.conf example. AP mode performance has been very good. It is very stable with 5 GHz WiFi 6 AP mode. It has an LED that serves as a powered up indicator. At the time of this review, When I look at the Amazon reviews, reviews I see some less than perfect reviews but I think Linux users can ignore that. It appears that all of the lower rated reviews are from Windows users that are complaining about finding a driver. As Linux users, we don't worry about that since the adapter is plug and play on Linux as long as the kernel you are using is kernel 5.19 or later. My testing is with kernel 6.6 and I have not found any problems that would affect daily use by regular desktop or laptop users. My overall opinion is that this adapter is a good adapter and the price is good. Most Linux users running modern Linux distros such as Debian 12, Ubuntu 24.04 or fedora 39, the recently released Kali, etc. should find this adapter to be a problem free experience.

Update: (2024-12-15) Running the adapter with kernel 6.12 these days. It is still very stable. This is a really good adapter to use on Linux.

If you want something specific tested, let me know by asking in Issues.

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