A7000

I had my ethernet cable running down the stairs to the router. I (the wife) got fed up of the mess so I did some research on the best wireless adapter and this kept coming up in the top 10. There are some really expensive ones and this was the most reasonable for performance. I was a little nervous though due to the £80 price tag but went for it. On arrival, (took 2 days), I followed the installation instructions, instead of my usual 'I know what I'm doing'. I have no CD drive so went to the net gear support website to download the driver software. I usually just get the drivers for this kind of install, instead of the full bundle software utility. This time I played safe, due to some of the reviews of difficulties with it on windows 10, and installed the full package. (It's not really needed as it's just basically a network selection utility and performance monitor but it's fairly light). I plugged in the adapter into the magnetic base and into the USB 3 port on my PC and BOOM! there it was. Connected to my WiFi and BOOM! Speeds just as fast as the ethernet. I'm only on a 200mbps connection from my provider, (so can't vouch for the advertised max speed of it) and this adapter is giving me a WiFi connection of 217mbps. My PC is upstairs and in the room above the router, so it's not really testing it I guess. Been running for 2 weeks with no issues at all, no drops in speed, no disconections. It is a big adapter but not as big as some. I guess if you want to pick up strong signals you need a big reciever. The magnetic base is great too, my desk has metal vertical plates on the side and it sticks there no problem. All out of sight. Hasn't moved and the adapter hasn't fallen out of the base, it's got a good solid USB connector on it. Will update if I notice any issues but I don't think I will.

Excellent. Well worth the money. I was having problems with the built in WiFi in the pc motherboard and getting a very slow connection and constant drops. This was very easy to set up and install. Just click on a link and download the latest drivers or install them from the usb drive. The install process even disabled the current WiFi hardware for you without having to go into device manager and do it yourself. (I check and it disabled the motherboard WiFi perfectly). I ran a speed test and under the old motherboard WiFi I was getting about 10mbs. I installed this and ran a speed test and my speed has gone up dramatically to 611mbps (and that’s in a different room from the router). I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is having problems with built in WiFi on their motherboard.

After getting dreadful performance using the tiny wifi dongle supplied with the gaming PC, I opted for the main ethernet adpaters. However, this was still tremendously poor, and we only got speeds up to 8Mbps, even though we have full fibre. I bought a couple of these and am now consistently getting speeds of 400Mbps+.

Bought this for my father as a gift, to replace his aging WiFi dongle. He uses this for his old desktop computer tower to connect it to his home WiFi. It works well and the connection is fast, but be aware that there is no CD or USB stick with the latest drivers and software loaded on - you have to download them online from the support website. He found that pretty frustrating, as he needed to use his old slow dongle to download the latest software & drivers for this new dongle, and he needed my help to navigate to the official support site, choose the correct software version etc. If it included a USB stick to load the initial software, and then a wizard to load any updates once it was connected, it would have been 5 star rating.

On Windows you need to manually install the driver. The driver comes with a piece of poor software that you can't uninstall (without losing the driver as well). The first connection after boot works: you connect to WiFi and the Internet. But every other connection attempt to any network will result in no Internet after that - WiFi connects but no Internet. I used this with my desktop, but imagine using it on a laptop... You go to a cafe, boot your PC and connect to the cafe's network; then you go home and try to connect to your own network. Nope, you have to reboot or else it won't work. Also, if you want to use this on Linux you need to compile the driver yourself, because it's not in the mainline kernel. It's an expensive WiFi adapter but it's worth less to me than the cheaper ones. Having excellent signal is useless if you can't connect at all.

Amazing best gaming and hd streaming adapter at the moment. Does not drop connection set up correctly. Highly recommended. You will need to download the software and I had to tweak the driver settings too to stop it going off. Once your setup this runs like a dream. It's outstanding and I came from a cable setup to this as I did research and I thought this was the best, and I have not been disappointed. It just feel as though I am on a cable setup as its so fast and stable. I am on Windows 10 Pro, so for those saying this does not run on Windows 10 it's not true and can only be that they have not set it up right. I use mine for gaming and surfing the net and find it perfect. I have had mine now a couple of years and it's never let me down. I use it on a gaming desktop and have also used it on my laptop with no issue. Do your homework and set it up right. Read the paper work and watch a Youtube video if needed and you will have no issues.

I have 3 of these - if you have issues with poor performance with the wifi or signal drops/intermittent connections then you need to rollback to an earlier driver from the netgear driver site directly (as the one installed by default is defective as of Jan 2023)

Mon ordinateur est dans un bureau séparé du routeur Wifi 6 par environ 20 mètres, 1 étage et plusieurs cloisons, je cherchais un moyen de le connecter efficacement pour des usages variés : travail, straming, cloud gaming. Cet adaptateur Netgear est plus imposant qu'une clé USB, mais sa rallonge et son pied aimanté permettent de le poser où on veut sans bloquer plusieurs ports de son ordinateur. Il peut rester discret sous un bureau, mais avec son design moderne et élégant, vous pouvez aussi bien le laisser sur votre bureau. L'installation est très simple, mais il vaut mieux télécharger d'avance le logiciel d'installation sur le site de Netgear. Au quotidien, il fonctionne parfaitement ! Il capte mieux le wifi que les cartes de mon ordinateur professionnel récent. Le débit est excellent pour tous les usages en dépit des obstacles (à l'instant, j'ai un ping de 4ms avec 230 Mbps de débit descendant et 460 Mbps de débit ascendant). Bref, j'en suis très satisfait ! Reste à voir comment il se comporte dans la durée !

Ich habe mich von den negativen Rezensionen nicht abschrecken lassen und mir den Netgear A7000 gegönnt. Die vielfach beschriebenen massiven Treiberprobleme konnte ich mit aktuellem Win10 nicht beobachten (Kauf 11/2018). Ehrlich gesagt war die Installation tatsächlich reines Plug&Play. Ich bin wie folgt vorgegangen: Ich habe mir von der Netgear-Seite den Standalone-Treiber runtergelanden (diese Treiberversion kommt ohne die ebenfalls oft kritisierte Netgear-Software, finde es auch tatsächlich besser, wenn das WLAN über die Boardwerkzeuge von Windows gemanaget wird, eine Zusatzsoftware bringt hier m.M.n keine Vorteile). Dem Installationshinweis auf der Verpackung folgend habe ich die Treiberinstallation VOR dem Anstecken des Wifi-Adapters gestartet. Und siehe da: runs like a charme! Keinerlei Verzögerungen beim Windows-Start, keinerlei Verbindungsverluste oder sonstige Probleme. Läuft einfach nur sau schnell, wobei ich die maximale Geschwindigkeit gar nicht ausreizen kann, da mein Router nur 2x2 Antennenkonfigurationen unterstützt. Ich habe mir den A7000 trotzdem gekauft, da der kleine Netgear AC1200-Bruder zum Kaufzeitpunkt nur etwa sieben Euro billiger war und ich den Adapter stationär am Desktop-Rechner betreibe. Letzteres ist ein Punkt: wer einen Adapter für sein Laptop anschaffen möchte sollte zu einem kleineren Adapter greifen. Der A7000 ist groß und breit, wirklich verdammt groß und breit! Diskussionswürdig wäre lediglich, warum der Standfuß einen so starken Magneten beherbergen muss, dass man ihn von Festplatten und anderen Magnetspeichern fern halten sollte.

Det fungerar mycket bra, jag rekommenderar det.

This WiFi adapter is great and works perfectly. I've tried a few other adapters before this one, but the all had issues with dropping the connection, slow speeds and having horrible latency and jitter, but this one has none of those. The only issue really is the 2008 look of the program you use to connect to a network, but it works great. So, since you really don't use it that often, it's totally fine.

Gran producto. Lo he tenido varios años, hasta que le han caducado los drivers en W11