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(More customer reviews)History has shown that we Mac owners tend to get left out in the rain when it comes to product compatibility. Naturally, I was initially skeptical when I placed my order for this little dongle. Faced with a MacBook Pro Unibody hosting a fried WiFi card and a $100 repair bill (not including labor), I was looking for every, and any, solution available. Call me surprised.
The dongle itself is cast in a slightly cheap-ish white plastic housing with a built-in green LED status light. It looks robust enough to take some good whacks, but probably not a direct drop (though I doubt any USB would). It extends about 7mm out from the side and is very secure. No wiggle and a firm fit in the port. The included mini install CD won't work in a slot-loaded drive, but their website was very user friendly and had downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Once downloaded, the setup was very simple and had drivers for both PPC and Intel machines. The only caveat is that the Apple AirPort Utility is bypassed while their own Wireless Network Utility is used instead. Connection to my home's AirPort network was very fast and, dare I say it, quicker than the built-in WiFi, while actual throughput was identical. Range was also on-par with my prior 802.11N setup.
On the whole, I'd highly recommend this adapter to anyone looking at a steep laptop repair bill!
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Interface : Universal Serial Bus 2.0LEDs : Link/ACTButton : WPS ButtonChipset : Realtek RTL 8188CUStandard:IEEE 802.11b/g/n (Draft 2.0)Data Rate: 802.11n (up to 150Mbps), 802.11g (up to 54Mbps), 802.11b (up to 11Mbps)VMM:802.11e QoS EnhancementWireless Security : WEP 64/128/256 bits WPA1/2-PSK, WPA1/2 -802.1X, AES-CCMWPS : PIN, PBCSupport OS:Windows XP, Vista, 7, MAC, LinuxDimension : 19.2 (L) x 15 (W) x 6.6 (H) mmWeight : 2.2 gCertifications :CE / FCC / NCC / RoHSLanguage Setup : 12 Languages (English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian )
