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I decide to try this little adapter, after my Tp-link died on me.*****Pros*****1. 5ghz, unlike my d-link it picks up 5ghz with little work.2. Comes with all the accessories. (The usb extension wire, and little mount clip. Just no drive cd not a deal breaker)3. Range, this little bad boy as better range then my last adapter and so hasn't drop connection once.4. The extension usb cable is a good length.*****Cons*****1. No driver cd2. Plug in play, doesn't work on windows 10. Had to download the drivers from netgear so make sure you have an internet connection3. The serial code was crossed out with a sharpie. So no support for me.This a great little adapter, with decent range. And for the price, how can one say no.(Only tested on windows 10)

So far so good! I've spent $13.00 on worse! Had to try it because of the price and wanted to access the 5 Ghz band on my dual band route, which I couldn't get to with my inexpensive Win 8 Asus laptop ($249.00 from Best Buy last year). I am happy with my decision. Packed plainly in a Netgear non-retail box (brown cardboard with Netgear logo on it.). Came in USPS with over-packed bubble envelope. Packing great, arrived in one piece!Downloaded a 50 mb file from Netgear support page, fired it up, it asked me to plug the unit into the USB port. Viola! works fine. I disabled the onboard wireless adapter, which was also giving me occasional disconnects and always low speed test results. This piece is great. BTW, comes with an extender USB cable so you can plug this into the cable, then plug the cable into your computer. Gives you flexibility, instead of a rigid USB dongle sticking out of the side of the computer, waiting to be hit and snapped off (dread the thought!)

Purchased recently, certified refurbished. Working perfectly so far, and I don't anticipate any problems, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed as it only came with a 30-day warranty. I'm willing to handle that risk since I bought this at at approx. $15, less than half of the retail price.Heads up: The adapter I bought was the WNDA3100v2, NOT the WNDA3100v3. They're the same as far as I can tell, but they each require a different driver, so hopefully someone will read this and save yourself the half hour of frustration I went through installing the wrong driver.

I love this this product and would recommend this product to anyone who needs it. It might take a minute to get everything running but look online and go by the directions and you should have no problems getting it together downloading the software and it working the right way but its a wonderful product to buy and cheaper then the stores same product, so it was WEll WORTH my money and time to get it on cause it's such a wonderful produce.On Nov 4, 2015 6:27 PM, "Amazon.com Reviews" <customer-reviews-messages@amazon.com> wrote:>>  >  >  >  >  >  > How did this item meet your expectations?>  >  > NETGEAR (WNDA3100 v2) RangeMax Wireless-N Adapter Dual Band (Certified...>  > Netgear  >  > Start by rating it>  >  >  > Review your purchases>  > Check out amazon.com/ryp to find past purchases to review.>  >  > We hope you found this message to be useful. If you'd rather not receive future e-mails of this sort from amazon.com at toccara1981@gmail.com, please opt-out here.>  > Reference 155034970. (c) 2014 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon.com, 410 Terry Avenue N., Seattle, WA 98109-5210.

I bought this for use with my DishTV DVR receiver. Plugged it into the USB port of the DishTV box. It was recognized and began the initialization process in a step by step manner. It works great. The one thing I did that also helped was to use a 3 foot USB cable to move the Netgear away from the back of the DishTV box. The signal strength was okay but much better moving it just a short distance from the DishTV box.It does not have to be hooked up all the time. I use it to download shows to the DVR and I watch them later. Needless to say, once the shows are downloaded, you can remove it if you like. It is nice to be able to download, store it on the DVR and watch later.

My previous model (NETGEAR RangeMax Wireless-N Dual Band Adapter WNDA3100 v2) quit on me but it was to be expected. I was not very careful with it. Anyway I needed a replacement and came across this refurbished model. I'm very, very leery of refurbished anything but the reviews were mostly good. I rolled the dice and ordered one. Received it well packed. It looked in great shape. Did a re-installation of the software since I kept the CD from my old one (you won't receive a disc) and it is working flawlessly so far. Plus I saved a bit of coin getting the refurbished model. That's always good. Keep the extra dough in your pocket and try this factory refurbished wireless adapter.

Works great on my Raspberry Pi 2. The supplied CD indicates that the drivers are from MediaTek. Note: No need to install supplied drivers. Just pop in and go.

Nice price for an adapter with a really good range.. Tested on Linux, Windows 7, Windows 10, and Raspberry Pi (namely OpenELEC, Berryboot, RetroPie).

I ordered two of these for two of my Raspberry Pi 2's that I just Kodi on in two different rooms. So long as the one rooms door is open I get signal, it gets iffy once the door is closed. The one in the living room is working like a champ and I've been running 9+gig bluray movies through it.

This is a well designed product. I tried it with Windows and Linux operating systems. On Linux it works with no driver installation needed. On Windows the included driver needs to be installed. The signal reception is excellent which is expected with the external antenna.I also used it in access point mode in Linux which worked without issues. I love it when a device just works as advertised without having to jump through hoops. Could you make a dual band device (2.4 and 5GHz) with the same capabilities? That will be an awesome product.

This WiFi adapter kicks butt! When doing a neighborhood scan this adapter picks up twice as many APs with its external 2dB antenna than a no antenna external 3dB WiFi dongle. I get a solid 144 mbs from it. The only down side is the size of the antenna on my Surface Pro. This adapter can be placed in to monitor mode easily and works on Linux. It does get warm as it is working so it consumes some power on a notebook or laptop.

The wireless usb adapter showed up on time in my mailbox this afternoon. I bought a netgear n300 router for almost $40 to use on my UBUNTU tower! Needless to say, I jettisoned it and went to Amazon to buy this device because it supported Ubuntu. When I unpacked it, I plugged it into the tower. I powered it on, and the adapter came to life almost instantly! The white part glows blue. After I logged in, I immediately noticed thet it was already connected and I didn't need to do a thing. It has a decent connection to my DOCSIS 3.0 router. If this thing works on my raspberry PI, I will be ordering another one, and future ones as I convert friends old pc's to Linux!

Super fast, works as intended. Why 4 stars? Well, you would think that someone that ordered this was doing it BECAUSE THEY NEED TO GET ONLINE, so a note in the box telling them where to go download the drivers instead of putting them on a .50 CD is a bit of a pain in the butt, I had to tether to my cellphone and download a pretty hefty driver pack....other than that, fast shipping, and I'm on it now.VERY fast, I'm satisfied....that whole driver thing was a little chintzy though -

I was given a Panasonic 2012 TV. I put it in my bedroom and needed Internet to be able to use it. I have an old Sony Wifi Bly ray player that was not picking up good enough signal to avoid buffering to the point of uselessness. The Panasonic wifi adapter was very expensive so I looked around and found this. It was under 12 dollars and works fine for me. I only occasionally use it but when I am in the mood to rainy day snuggle with pups in bed and watch a Netflix or Amazon movie it has worked fine. Price point was so good I wasn't expecting much but it works well without any buffering stops so far!

Came on time. Package was clean, secure, no dents. The UBS item was beautiful without a flaw.Downside was it comes with NO software to install. You must go to their website to download it which will be difficult for some since they are purchasing this to GET ON the net. The directions with the item concerning this are short & may confusing confusing & anger some who aren't familiar with this type of computer work.For those who can get online & download the software the must then have a way of moving it between the devices/computers.Good news is that the correct software is easy to find among the list on the site. It's also rather simple to install onto the computer. The UBS item gives 2 options after installing on how to access the internet. Pick the one you prefer & voila! :-D

Had issues at first but found out it was ZoneAlarm causing the problem. Had to unistall ZoneAlarm then the Netgear WNDA3100 installed just fine. Reinstalled ZoneAlarm after I got the wireless going and haven't had any issues since.

It was fine. The only problem was my PC didn't locate it as a disk drive. So when it recognized it as new hardware, it couldn't install the software to run the install. I had to go to a different PC with internet connection, find the website, download the correct install program, save it to a removable harddrive, then attach to the PC that didn't have internet the harddrive, then run the install software. Then in recognized the wireless router.It shouldn't have been that hard to set up.

This device is simple to install and works very smoothly with my Netgear Dual band Router. It kicked up the WiFi speed of the computer from 19 MB/S download to 53 MB/S and from 5 MB/S Upload to 29 MB/S. This was achieved using the 5 GHZ band. The actual incoming speed from the Modem is 55 MB/s Download and 29 MB/S Upload. In fact that was the reason that I purchased this item. My other laptops and desktop as well as the tablets can all receive the 5 GHZ signal. When I observed the difference in performance from the 2.4 GHZ compared to the 5 GHZ it was a no brainer to bring this computer up to that band. Very satisfied with the result. Easy Installation. Great Price. Web surfing speed has tripled. Well worth the effort.p.s.: make sure you do not have a 5.8 GHZ cordless phone. It will interfere with the WiFi 5 GHZ band.

good

Not bad. I can pick up wireless much farther from the source with this than I could before. The price was good and it is a good size. I am very glad I got this.

Worked great; didn't realize it lit up so brightly, kind of a bummer since I was looking for a product that would blend in.

Great price! shipped fast! It also comes with an install disc and great instructions. I was doing an install on a Windows 7 OS...followed the directions...and it was confusing because some of the things they were referring to were not available on the install. So after trying their way...I then messed with it for 5 mins, and ta-da! Connected! So docking one star for the crazy confusing, but appreciated directions...but I would buy this again.

I purchased this for my desktop computer. I was setting it up in the basement (a floor down and about 50 feet away from the wifi transmitter on the first floor), and wanted something that would pull a strong wifi signal. This worked okay. My laptop gets decent signal at my desk, and this dongle doesn't get as strong of a signal as the laptop. Disappointing for a desktop that I planned to use for gaming. Would have been okay for a computer that is used only for light internet browsing.I ended just routing a really really long ethernet cable and no longer use this product.

Works for my laptop but for whatever reason is not compatible with my desktop (older model)

Works but only after a great deal of effort to obtain the correct driver software to install and after installing it properly. Turns out there's two different packages that get downloaded and only one of the two will do the job...and the instructions on the web don't tell you which! Arg.Shipping and package arrival were fine however!! And package info didn't even tell you to go to Netgear to get the drivers!!

I loved the price and the product, only problem is that windows 7 hates the drivers and will freeze up on occasion but it hasn't been enough for me to stop using it. Still a great product, just write better drivers!

I have this in work shed with desktop computer. 30 feet from house, works ok. will stream music at low bit-rates but Netflix etc,forget about it!It would be nice to have more range,but that's not what its built for

I am running Windows 7 and when in a skype video call the wifi adapter completely crashes. In the Windows event viewer it reports "Error 11, Disk: The driver detected a controller error on \device\Harddisk4\DR4" and the adapter only starts working again upon restarting the computer. Unplugging it does not work and it is not possible to disable/enable from the network controls, you cannot restart/stop the Netgear WNDA3100 service, and attempting to do anything with the drivers causes Computer Management to freeze. Reinstalling drivers from the latest software pack (2.2.0.3) did not solve the problem. Notably this problem does not occur when using other video chat services such as Google Hangouts.Besides this odd little hiccup the device works perfectly. Despite being under heavy load (5Megabyte/s down, 2Megabyte/s up) for an extended period of time there has been no other crashes outside of using skype. The device dutifully picks up both of my 2.4 and 5ghz networks and connects to each of them reporting a strong signal (between 160 and 240 mbps when connected).I would love to give this decide the 5 stars it probably deserves, but having it crash so painfully indicates that there are still things to fix with the firmware and possibly the device as a whole.

This thing disconnects a ton. Most of the time I't wont connect to my wireless modem at all. My modem is an Arris (Time Warner / Spectrum). It may work with other modems but I would stay clear as it's a gamble.

After like only months I think it just disconnecting continuously. It just stood working, until I have to unplug the USB and plug it back in. I've had it for almost a year now, and for some reason I've just chosen to live with it. It's so incredibly annoying.

this worked fine, but now it's 11 months later and it's done working....... not happy any more

I don't know if it was because it was refurbished, or didn't work well with Windows 10, or what...but I had issues with this thing from day one. And after two weeks of getting progressively worse with its connection stability, weird firewall issues(no problems with the new stick I got blocking programs), and terrible tied-in program, I just gave up and bought something else. Don't know what else to say about it in specific, but I did switch from this thing to a Panda N600 and it plugged and worked without a problem, going on a week now.

I had the n300 adapter which was giving me connection issues so I bought this one and it hasn't disconnected since.updatedkeeps disconnecting to my browser.

I was hoping this would solve some problems ive been having with my current wifi adapter. It works well, except it doesnt perform at the 300mbps as advertised, only 144. My download speeds have also been cut in half compared to my original adapter, which also got 144mbps, so im not really sure why that happened. Needless to say, i am dissappointed with this purchase, but will keep this adapter as a backup since it is so cheap.

Doesn't work all the time. Can crash the system.Might be a problem with my PC though.

Not working on my ubuntu machine.

Product arrive today without any kind of documentation. After installing the drivers the item was not recognized by both of my computers. I can't believe the lack of control from this company, sending refurbished products that don't work. Do not recommend

Terrible Adapter, came in some nondescript cardboard box with it's Serial Number marked out with a permanent marker. After testing and seeing a top speed of 5 MBps, I went ahead and bought a new router to see if my results improved with a resounding "No" after setting up a new AC router. Do Not Buy

I bought this product, it worked fine. Then I upgraded to Windows 10. Now it doesn't work at all. Microsoft support as well as Netgear Tech support both claim that it will not work with Windows 10.Period. End of story. No other options have been offered by Netgear except basically saying "Too Bad". This came without warning. I feel like i have been duped into buying a defective product with no recourse to recover what I have lost. If you ever want another dime out of me for anything, "Too Bad".

For what ever reason that I can not figure out, this WiFi adapter keeps dying out. It just "stops working". In order to get it to work again, I have to unplug it and plug it back in.I'm thinking of sending this back either for a replacement or buy something else. I will see what Amazon will do for me as I have never had a issue with any products on their website before. I will update this if I decide to get the same product again in hopes it just might be a faulty product? My decision will be on getting another of the same is if they will allow me a "test" time period and if it fails again to allow me to return for something else.With some research, this seems to be a known issue: [...]I'll first try their work around which is to go to your power management settings, and disable USB selective suspend setting. If this works, I don't plan to add any stars as this thing should work right out of the box without hassles!Updated -- Forget that work around that i found on the internet. It does not help :/ .. I've found multiple "work around methods" and they do not solve this issue.I'm forever thinking this is a complete waste of money for this product. It has this known issue that if you just google it, you'll find lots of complaints. I really wish I would have googled the reported issues that I saw on this amazon comments area!

tried to stream netflix on our 2011 panasonic tcp42s30 viera tv. the adapter was unable to reliably hold the router signal. it seems it had extreme difficulty locking onto & maintaining the ip address and/or default gateway id. except occasionally it would play an entire movie uninterrupted as long as ff or rev were not used. sent it back and amazon credited our account and covered the return shipping. hats off to amazon. now looking for an authentic panasonic adapter at a reasonable price.

Started having connectivity problems after 2 months, stopped working almost completely after 3 months. Great while it lasted. Wish the warranty was longer or that there was a way to exchange it, maybe I received a faulty one :(

One of the worst purchases. Did not what on OSX 10.5.4 as advertised

very old version

My Win10 laptop detected it originally and it worked for about 5 minutes, then it stopped being recognized in Device Manager.

A piece of junk. I installed it and the driver, and it wouldn't detect my Wi-Fi network. I uninstalled and re-installed the driver at least 3 times, but still didn't work. Troubleshooting guide was not helpful.