#Install ac1200 wifi usb adapter netgear install#

Adapter is definitely high gain and can provide good speeds even at long distance on 5Ghz band, However on Windows 10 it keeps on connecting / disconnecting while switching to USB 2.0 / 3.0 which is very disturbing at the time of bank transaction or any other important communication. Had to take replacement from Amazon as per recommendation by Netgear support however was of no use.īuild quality is good however this adapter has major issues or design flaws. I also have the TPLINK T2U nano which has the RTL8812AU and that too is useless at the moment. Even the ALFA 1900 which uses the same chipset is nothing more than a fancy brick to look at.

So much for performance, so little for being useless. DO NOT get this device or any of the RTL series because it will not work with fedora 31 or other newer distros. The A7000 uses the RTL8814AU chipset which is excellent but has pathetic support with the new kernel. Realtek does NOT officially provide any apt support for the RTL series devices for LINUX. I reckon it will work nicely with 4.19 on the new Debian but most people aren't gonna use that. You will be forced to use 5.2 series the last being 5.2.18 with this device. With the 5.3 series kernel there hasn't been any updated driver on github. NOVEMBER 2019 UPDATE: I have revised it to a 2 star rating. Switch off SECURE BOOT in BIOS as it creates problems.

#Install ac1200 wifi usb adapter netgear install#

Install drivers manually using either dkms or compile using make. So get a good router if you want to exploit this card. Highly recommended device if you frequently use vnc and ssh, but all speed is determined by router.

Absolutely no issues when updating new kernels using make. This card is good substitute to gbit ethernet. Check out aircrack-ng on GitHub to download any updated driver. Good number of contributors are pushing updates on GitHub. Works brilliantly with Linux and bleeding edge kernels.