Customer Ratings & Reviews

I used this as my primary internet connection for a little over 2 years. I was pleasantly surprised by it's performance. I did not drop connection or experience slow speeds. It powered my desktop like a champ. I recently upgraded to a triband PCI Express style card. Otherwise, I would still be using this one.

Works great for gaming. My motherboard didn't have wifi built in so this solved my internet issue. Was very easy to use, just plug and play and works faster with USB 3.1

I bought this for a desktop computer that only has wifi available. It works fine. Be aware that you have to download software for this to work. I used a laptop to download the software to a flash drive and then installed the software on the desktop. The installation was easy and the desktop is wifi capable.

I have an older laptop that ran only 2G. Not wishing to have to try to replace the WIFI card in the laptop I found it easier to just get a USB dongle for WIFI. I am familiar with Netgear being a good product so I decided to go with the dongle for 5G by Netgear. It has been eight months so far no problems. Very simple to install. Since buying the dongle I have purchased Netgear's router with the eight ports from BestBuy. One thing i did like is their price matching for the ASUS - AX6000 Dual Band Wi-Fi 6 Router. Don't know if it is still on sale, but it allows me to upgrade to WIFI 6 in the future. Should I choose to do so. I don't think much about brands when they claim one thing and do another. However with Netgear it seems that for the home the dongle and the router is a good foundation for streaming from PC, tablets and other automation devices. As with any networking device it is only as good as your network provider's service. I say this because one's expectations should not be to clear up bad internet service by purchasing a better router, because there isn't a router made that can do that. A good router will enhance the service provided by a good internet provider by allowing the devices in one's home or office to be more efficient. So if your looking to update an old PC to WIFI 5 this is the dongle that did it for me. Happy web surfing!

It works pretty well, the wifi doesn't turn off as often as it did when I was using the failing card in my computer. It would be nice if a driver were available with the unit rather than available as download from the internet, since the entire purpose of this object is that my computer couldn't connect to the internet.

Plug and play; perfect in every way! Also, reasonably priced as such things go.

Easy to install, fast, good range. Works well even three rooms away from router.

The wifi on my old gaming laptop stopped working. I tried everything to fix the problem so I wouldn't have to use an ethernet cord constantly or pay a big chunck of money to replace internal parts. This external adapter was a perfect fix and was easy to use.

Much faster network speeds than the 2.4GHz adapter it replaced.

It works great! Plug and play, connection is strong!

Super small, worked great on my old laptop. Never had any issues.

This was a good buy for Windows 11 will buy again if needed

Got this for kid's HP laptop for school and works great..no issues installing or connecting. Good throughput.

The small size delivers great reception. It was easy and quick to setup. After using it for month it’s performance is excellent.

Never have used a wifi adapter until now. Working from home and I use a desktop computer that is not WiFi compatible. My job sent me a TrendNET brand WiFi adapter which was absolutely horrible and slow. This one works at great speeds and I’m able to get my work done. It’s nice and small, can barely even tell that it’s plugged into the back of my desktop tower. I now have the ability to move my workspace away from my internet router and modem without having to run an Ethernet cord.

Works well now that the software was downloaded and installed. My laptop was having an issue connecting to WiFi so I was instructed to get an USB Adapter. In order to use this particular adapter you have to download the software from the website - which is hard to do if you do not have internet connection... In the end I had to use the Mobile Hotspot from my phone to connect my laptop to the internet and then was able to get install software to be able to use the Adapter. I guess some adapters come with the software installed already and once you plug into laptop it installs automatically - so just be aware that this is not the case with this specific one.

Worked flawlessly. Bought after I lost the WiFi adapter on my CPU.

This nano device is the best I have found. I had a different brand adapter and when I change my Wi-Fi to high speed fiber Internet, that device did not work. I decided to buy the one from Netgear. As soon as I connected this device to my laptop, It started working at the high-speed 5 MHz connection. It is a very reliable device. I will recommend it to anyone.

Works fine. I've had one of these break before so be careful with them. Also you need to download the driver's via a USB stick on another computer first to get this to work

Good range through walls and out doors. Easy setup and installation