This thing can barely pick it up 10 feet away. The tablet can get our router's signal almost a block and a half away. The three laptops and tablet pc we have are able to get signal anywhere in this 1 bedroom apartment at full 5 bars. I brought it over to my router using the extension cord and pulled my router as close as I could without having to rewire it: They're about 3 feet apart and I'm still only getting 4 out of 5 bars. Overall Review: I would seriously consider just about any other usb wifi adapter over this one. It's better than nothing but that isn't saying much. It absolutely cannot hold a connection for more than a couple hours even with 3 bars. Other networks show up and drop off completely randomly minute by minute. It can barely pull signal from a router that is just next door (15 feet away through 2 doors). That happiness was short lived when at first it pulled 2 bars on the router that is less than 10 feet away. Recently I had to bust it out because we're moving and cleaning our apartment up and I was so glad I had one handy for the transition days. Blinking light lets you know it's plugged in, installed itself on win7Ĭons: I've had this thing for a couple of years now and never really used it because I'd always had ethernet. Pros: Small and comes with a long usb cable. Provides enough bandwidth to support music downloads, file sharing and multimedia applicationsīackward compatible with Wireless-G standard productsĪdditional Information Date First Available Hardware-based 40/64-bit & 128-bit WEP encryptionĨ02.11b: Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (CCK, DQPSK, DBPSK)Ĩ02.11g: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (64QAM, 16QAM, QPSK, BPSK)ĭelivers consistent wireless connections-no more dropped connections or dead spots I have found in the past that you can go from poor signal with frequent disconnects, to full signal strength at the highest speed and no disconnects, just by choosing a better channel (and yes, I usually pick 6 first, and only try others if necessary).Learn more about the Netgear Inc. Look in your router manual or pdf guide or whatever instructions you have for it, and change the wireless channel. Wireless can be like that, and most routers are factory configured to channel 11. So lets say you and your tv station strike up a deal, and they move to channel 6.and nobody else in the area is on channel 6.great, now you can watch your program effortlessly. If you are watching channel 11, but 3 other tv stations are broadcasting along with the one you want to watch, it takes a lot more effort to get the information you want from the one station you are trying to watch. Imagine if we lived in a society where all TV signals came in on the same channels. Sometimes you will get a false low signal strength indication, but here's something to try anyways.

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