N600 Dual Band (2.4GHz & 5.0GHz) 300Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter w/WPS Button - Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11, Zorin, Mint, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Centos & Kali Linux

No hesitation with us recommending this for Ubuntu/Mint 17.2: plug n' play and just enjoy... running Mint off one USB and having the wireless off one of the other USB's in the notebook is gratifying: absolutely, over the last two months or so we've had this no problems an great/consistent wireless speed: FIVE STARS!On the other hand, Windows (XPSP3 & 7Ultimate) have been problematic: using this adapter with indigenous WZC, or the Mediatek supplied configuration utility - yes, I updated from their website - resulted in continual disconnects from both the XP wireless laptop and the Windows7 wired desktop.Five stars for Linux... don't hesitate to purchase.Edit 10/30/2015: 3 star average rating (0 for XP/7 - 5 star for Linux) upgraded to 5 across the board. Unsure of the problem with my previous router but given the variability of home wireless connections, unsure of what it could be. WZC and Mediatek utility working flawlessly with continuing rock solid linux. "Hello John... thank you for the attention. Yes also thought this very very strange! Recent change in a router and now running full "N" has eliminated the XP and Seven connection problems so now all three OS's operating flawlessly. Will now attempt to upgrade the rating and the review. Great wireless USB and GREAT PRICE. Thank you!"

Having upgraded my custom Windows 7 desktop to Windows 10 last year I have not had any problems until it came to using WI-FI. My previous network card (TP-LINK TL-WDN4800) gave me multiple issues including not connecting to my remembered network automatically, speeds and signal dropping overtime and just not working.Getting tired of these issues, I searched for a network adapter that was compatible with Windows 10 and I decided to go with the Panda N600. Once it arrived in the mail, I took the necessary steps to remove my old network card (disable device, uninstall drivers, shut down computer, remove card, etc.) and placed the N600 in the rear USB port of my PC. Booting up the PC, the device was already ready to use.Um, wow. That was easy.Using the adapter, I no longer ran into the issues I ran into my previous card and using it for six hours on a single boot I have not had any signal or speed issues.If there are two complaints with this device, it would be that the blue LED is a bit bright (nothing electric tape can't fix) and that the device gets a bit hot overtime. Other than that, I highly recommend any Windows 10 users with WI-FI issues to get this adapter. It's simple and it works.

I was miffed because out of the box, this adapter was not plug-and-play with Debian Testing Linux. It recognized the adapter, wifi connections were shown, and it would connect to my router, but there was no internet. After going through countless help guides, I found an easy solution, something about an issue inherently on long names cutting off in the mac blah, blah, blah head explode, so here is the fix;As root (sudo or su - root, or whatever it takes to get your peas boiling), enter this into terminal: "ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link" without the quotes, and reboot. And it works like a dream, so try the fix if you can't get connected.Speed test shows near the same speeds I was getting with a wired connection. Linux friendly (almost) = A+Update 12/14/2018: I was wrong about the speeds. This is where I take off a star. You will get around 45Mbps download which for most applications is fine. If you are running games via Steamplay to devices though, it may be a bottleneck. My laptop's wifi gets 120Mbps which matches my ISP's speed package, so this is how I know this adapter struggles with full download speeds.Also, I switched to Manjaro linux and this adapter worked out of the box, no fiddling with command lines needed. I still highly recommend it.

If you're looking for cheap, fast, dual band wifi, this is the product for you. It looks nice and unobtrusive, although the blue light can be a little annoying but it's not bright so you can just plug it in the back if your pc if you like. I have the latest version of windows 10 and it worked right away without installing software.Pros:-Looks alright without any protruding antennas unlike other dual band wireless cards I've seen, although you can see that from the pictures-Fast-No real need for installing drivers(at least for me)-It's a good thing, just buy it, what are you still reading for?Cons:-Pulsing blue light can be a bit annoying, but not really

I want to say up front I haven't used this for a while, because I haven't needed to really. So the reason I bought it was because I wanted something that was made to work well in Linux. See a few years ago, I had tried out Linux because Windows 7 was about to go to end-of-life, and I wanted to see if I could use Linux. I have an old linksys adapter, that only works in windows, could not get it to work at all in linux. So I bought this. Truth be told, this didn't work as well in windows or linux as my old linksys did, however it did work, and I was able to use it. Fast forward several years later and I have built in wifi connectivity. So I don't need it, however, I am running primarily in linux now, so if I ever need one I can use it. The build quality seems to be okay for a cheap Chinese wifi adapter, the signal strength wasn't as great, but it's not horrible either. It did seem to drop sometimes though.