BrosTrendLinux WiFi Adapter for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Mate, Zorin, PureOS, Raspberry Pi 2+, Windows 11, etc. 1200Mbps, 5GHz + 2.4GHz, Long Range 2X5dBi Antennas, USB3.0

Worked very well with Ubuntu 22.04. I did what I usually do, which is try to search the internet for how to install the driver in Linux. I wasted 40 minutes installing an outdated driver that probably wasn't working. I finally opened the package and found the little CD inside with a PDF with the very simple instructions to install the Linux driver directly from the manufacturer's website. You don't even need the little CD. There is a little slip of paper next to the CD with the URL for the simple Linux installation instructions. Go to their website and installing the driver under Linux takes maybe two minutes and it updates the repository on the computer so driver updates occur automagically.The twin antenna dual band USB WiFi adapter is far superior to the little 2.4 GHz WiFi dongle I had plugged into the front of my computer with a tiny built in antenna. Now my computer is seeing four times as many WiFi SSIDs. I'm thinking of putting a 3D print farm in a room on the other side of the house, a floor below off the basement, and this new WiFi adapter should allow me to manage that print farm from my office. The old slow dongle wouldn't have the range and the speed would make multiple video feeds problematic.

Just an hour off the truck, and I've already doubled my wifi speed after another install of Linux Mint. That's what I've been wanting this past month of averaging 2 distros a day to find an easy way around that annoying 0.2 mbps from the internal pci adapter. Got it up to 20 with a nano-whatever usb, but it obviously isn't certified for linux like this BrosTrend apparently is. Not getting 300 on the 2.4, but I'm upstairs and a wall over. Fifty is fine. I expect the distro installs to continue to recognize it and use the kernel drivers. I went an extra step and found it easy to install "more advanced" drivers on the BrosTrend web site. Relief!

This was part of what turned out to be a 3 step process to get WiFi out to my detached garage. When I started, I was getting no WiFi reception in the garage at all. This is using an 8 year old Dell laptop that was a “bargain” unit to begin with, so it wasn’t using top of the line components. The onboard WiFi adapter was single (2.4 GHz only) frequency and weak on signal reception. The first step was to get a WiFi range extender. That got me some reception in the garage, but signal strength was so-so and download speeds were really slow (about 0.5 Mbps according to speedtest).This WiFi adapter was the second step. I bought it because while I use Windows when I have to, I prefer to work with Linux Mint and the listing said it would work with Linux. I started by installing it under Windows, because the drivers were available for download on the BrosTrend web site. After installation, I initially found no increase in WiFi performance which was a major disappointment. I soon figured out that I needed to go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network and Sharing Center\Network Connections. There I could disable the onboard adapter and enable the BrosTrend. Connected to my network and BINGO – immediate gratification! The 5 GHz frequency was available and I was getting download speeds over 100 Mbps – about 200 times the speed I had before. That is a result! Even on the 2.4 GHz channel I get downloads over 20 Mbps. I am really pleased with all of that.The third step was to get the adapter working under Linux. As the listing stated and other reviewers have pointed out, BrosTrend requires you to connect to their site to install the Linux driver. Since my laptop didn’t have an Ethernet port (see “bargain” unit above), I sourced an Ethernet to USB adapter locally and was able to obtain the driver that way. Loaded it up and it worked like a champ. Again, really happy with the result.While I would rather have saved the extra $20 I spent on the Ethernet adapter had BrosTrend just made the Linux driver available for download, I give them great credit for supporting Linux at all. The easy thing for them to do would be to just cover the Windows/Mac world and be done with it. So thanks for helping those of us who have ventured off the beaten path!Five stars all around!

Once I could get the Linux drivers loaded, this worked great. I requires an internet connection to get the drivers on older versions of Linux. I have some old software that requires nothing newer than Ubuntu 10.x which had no drivers and the computer was in a workshop with no wired connection. I ended up upgrading to the current version of Ubuntu (24.x) and I'll be running a virtual machine for my old software.

Compré esta antena basándome en su ficha técnica, la cual indicaba una velocidad de hasta 1200 Mbps. Tengo una conexión a internet que alcanza los 900 Mbps, por lo que esperaba un rendimiento cercano a esa cifra. Sin embargo, la antena solo logra una velocidad de 43 Mbps, llegando en el mejor de los casos a 100 Mbps.Considerando que esta antena se conecta por USB, cuyo límite de velocidad en la versión 3.0 es de aproximadamente 600 Mbps, resulta incomprensible cómo la ficha técnica puede mencionar una velocidad de 1200 Mbps. Esta discrepancia entre la promesa y el rendimiento real es la razón por la que devolví el producto sin dudarlo. Claramente, la antena no cumple con la velocidad anunciada de 1200 Mbps.

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