A7000

I bought this portable USB WIFI adapter to help with a computer that was located in a corner of the house which did not receive a good wifi signal. This unit definitely helped and this computer is now getting a better signal. I bought a used version of this wifi adapter as a new unit was too expensive for my liking. Overall, I would recommend this unit at the used price point, I am neutral about its price point as a new unit. Here are some of my observations:PROS: The unit does help increase week wifi signals. I can’t tell how much definitely but my signal level increased about two bars. The unit is stable with no signal breaks or drop offs. The unit is larger than most portable wifi units that I have used in the past. With its base, I would not use this unit at a coffee shop as it is very obvious and large. However, without its base, you can connect the unit directly to your laptop with no obvious issues. The base unit also has magnets which you can use to position it on a metal surface if you have one. The unit’s driver, which was described as rather large in the comments section, is divided into two types. One type is standalone and a complete suite. I just used the standalone and it worked just fine with no issues noted thus far. The installation was relatively simple with no hang ups noted. Thus far, I have encountered no issues with this unit.CONS: The unit is larger than most. If you use the base, it will use a portion of your desktop that otherwise would be vacant. Not a big issue if you have a normal desk; however, if you are in cramped quarters just be aware. I wish they provided a longer cord for the base unit and made the chord a little thinner; although, not a significant issue thus far. The unit is not plug and play. You have to download the driver, its in a zip format, then decide what driver unit you want to use. It has a standalone and a suite format. I just used the standalone and it worked fine, for me not an issue, but some may find it confusing. The unit uses USB 3 or 2, but for best performance you have to have a USB 3 port open. For some laptops, this may be an issue, especially if you have other devices already attached to the laptop. I use this unit on a desktop so I don’t have this issue.I have used this unit continuously for about two weeks thus far with no issues noted. Thus far, it works as advertised.

My Mom needed a WiFi adapter antenna because the marina where she lives on her boat has one WiFi router and she's very far away from it so she barely gets any service. I bought this one from Netgear and a cheaper one from TP-Link because this one took longer to deliver and she needed one ASAP. The difference in performance between the two is MASSIVE. The TP-Link one improved the connection a bit, but it was still very slow and she couldn't have Zoom calls without the video and audio dropping out. Once she received the Netgear one, it was better than when she had a wired ethernet connection in her home. She also said that the setup was very fast and easy. Now she has zero problems with her internet. It's very fast and stable with no dropped connections, and no spinning wheel waiting for a page to load. I did a lot of research before buying one, and this is the best one by far. It's a little more expensive than the other ones, but you get what you pay for.

I've upgraded my adapter from an Alfa AR9721. Which used to work marvelously, but it got old and brought my network speed down to 4-5mbs, this adapter shot my speed up to 200mbps. I love this beautiful adapter and it's power. I feel like I'm on ethernet right now. Hahaha, it's so epic. Thank you to the seller for shipping it so quickly for me to enable me to develop my projects without any hassle. I love this amazing adapter. I have not had such a strong network signal in a long time via Wi-Fi. It's brilliant!I'm just another one of your super satisfied customers friend. Thanks for this hardware! I love it! (I realize I'm probably sounding like a broken record, but getting such a speed output through network speed tests shocked the crap out of me). xD

Moved into a new house and have my office setup in a shed across a large driveway from the house where the router is installed on the 2nd floor. My existing ASUS Vivobook is getting a little long in the tooth, but was still picking up wifi signal without any booster. Definitely not getting the 1GB speeds I'm paying for, but it allowed me to get some work done. I have another laptop for work with another client and it was able to get a much stronger signal. Initially another older laptop wouldn't see the signal at all, so I ended up grabbing a cheap $60 Netgear USB dongle at Wal-Mart. Noticed better speeds on both other laptops than my own ASUS.I was going to upgrade a variety of items (may still do that) but decided probably grabbing a new USB dongle for my laptop would be the fastest solution for me... and it was.The Netgear A7000 comes with a CD in the box to install software and drivers initially, but my ASUS Vivobook doesn't have an internal CD-ROM so I just plugged the sucker in and hoped for the best. Nothing. Visited the Netgear website to install the latest drivers and did, still nothing. Device wouldn't recognize driver and also appeared the Netgear Genie software wouldn't actually run either. I eventually had to manually install the driver for the device myself, not a big issue, but not something I think the average user would be able to accomplish.After I got the drivers installed, everything worked like a charm. As you can see from the included image. Got improved speeds overall, with fairly significant jump in my upload speeds.Now I just need to go in and relabel my wifi connections from Wifi1 and Wifi2 to something more helpful and descriptive.