Panda Wireless N600

No hesitation with us recommending this for Ubuntu/Mint 17.2: plug n' play and just enjoy... running Mint off one USB and having the wireless off one of the other USB's in the notebook is gratifying: absolutely, over the last two months or so we've had this no problems an great/consistent wireless speed: FIVE STARS! On the other hand, Windows (XPSP3 & 7Ultimate) have been problematic: using this adapter with indigenous WZC, or the Mediatek supplied configuration utility - yes, I updated from their website - resulted in continual disconnects from both the XP wireless laptop and the Windows7 wired desktop. Five stars for Linux... don't hesitate to purchase. Edit 10/30/2015: 3 star average rating (0 for XP/7 - 5 star for Linux) upgraded to 5 across the board. Unsure of the problem with my previous router but given the variability of home wireless connections, unsure of what it could be. WZC and Mediatek utility working flawlessly with continuing rock solid linux. "Hello John... thank you for the attention. Yes also thought this very very strange! Recent change in a router and now running full "N" has eliminated the XP and Seven connection problems so now all three OS's operating flawlessly. Will now attempt to upgrade the rating and the review. Great wireless USB and GREAT PRICE. Thank you!"

Having upgraded my custom Windows 7 desktop to Windows 10 last year I have not had any problems until it came to using WI-FI. My previous network card (TP-LINK TL-WDN4800) gave me multiple issues including not connecting to my remembered network automatically, speeds and signal dropping overtime and just not working. Getting tired of these issues, I searched for a network adapter that was compatible with Windows 10 and I decided to go with the Panda N600. Once it arrived in the mail, I took the necessary steps to remove my old network card (disable device, uninstall drivers, shut down computer, remove card, etc.) and placed the N600 in the rear USB port of my PC. Booting up the PC, the device was already ready to use. Um, wow. That was easy. Using the adapter, I no longer ran into the issues I ran into my previous card and using it for six hours on a single boot I have not had any signal or speed issues. If there are two complaints with this device, it would be that the blue LED is a bit bright (nothing electric tape can't fix) and that the device gets a bit hot overtime. Other than that, I highly recommend any Windows 10 users with WI-FI issues to get this adapter. It's simple and it works.

I was miffed because out of the box, this adapter was not plug-and-play with Debian Testing Linux. It recognized the adapter, wifi connections were shown, and it would connect to my router, but there was no internet. After going through countless help guides, I found an easy solution, something about an issue inherently on long names cutting off in the mac blah, blah, blah head explode, so here is the fix; As root (sudo or su - root, or whatever it takes to get your peas boiling), enter this into terminal: "ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link" without the quotes, and reboot. And it works like a dream, so try the fix if you can't get connected. Speed test shows near the same speeds I was getting with a wired connection. Linux friendly (almost) = A+ Update 12/14/2018: I was wrong about the speeds. This is where I take off a star. You will get around 45Mbps download which for most applications is fine. If you are running games via Steamplay to devices though, it may be a bottleneck. My laptop's wifi gets 120Mbps which matches my ISP's speed package, so this is how I know this adapter struggles with full download speeds. Also, I switched to Manjaro linux and this adapter worked out of the box, no fiddling with command lines needed. I still highly recommend it.

I use Slackware 14.1, (original) kernel 3.10.17. I had some problems getting this to work at first, but after investigating and with help from Panda support, I found that the rt2800usb module supports this adapter. I've been using this adapter with a Netgear wired/wireless router (N300), separated by about 30 feet thru several walls, and it works quite well. NOTE: The standard 'huge' kernel that comes with Slackware 14.1 has the rt2800usb module built, WITH support for rt55XX enabled (grep the config file in /boot for 55XX; you should see CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT55XX=y. If you do not see this, the module has not been built or was built without the Panda adapter support (148F:5572 is the usb id for the device)). You will have to load the kernel source and enable support for and built the module. I usually rebuild my kenel and modules and did not have the Panda at the time I did this, so I did not have the correct module for the Panda built. Once I did this, the Panda was recognized when it was plugged in, and by using NetworkManager I was able to connect to the NetGear router and the internet.

If you're looking for cheap, fast, dual band wifi, this is the product for you. It looks nice and unobtrusive, although the blue light can be a little annoying but it's not bright so you can just plug it in the back if your pc if you like. I have the latest version of windows 10 and it worked right away without installing software. Pros: -Looks alright without any protruding antennas unlike other dual band wireless cards I've seen, although you can see that from the pictures -Fast -No real need for installing drivers(at least for me) -It's a good thing, just buy it, what are you still reading for? Cons: -Pulsing blue light can be a bit annoying, but not really

Based on the good ratings here at Amazon, I purchased this Panda N600 (PAU07) WiFi dongle roughly a year ago, and it's worked great. I don't know if it actually delivers the speed claimed, but I don't have any problems watching YouTube videos at 1080p60 on a Win10/Linux Mint 17 platform with a WiFi router hard-connected to a cable modem. It's been a lifesaver when my Windows 10 Lenovo laptop decides to overheat the shitty internal WiFi card and starts dropping connections. It's been useful in the case where my older Windows/Linux desktop was almost out of range of my router and kept dropping connections, because I could pop this in and seriously reduce the frequency of dropped connections. Finally, it's been recently useful for my brand new HP desktop with Linux Mint 19. The Linux kernel doesn't yet seem to support the on-board WiFi device, so until it does, I've been using this unit pretty successfully. The only drawback is that it takes up a USB slot.

Recently updated to Windows 10, and upon doing so my old (and very out of date) wireless adapter was no longer functional. Item arrived on time, and was very simple to use. It did include a disc and detailed (but small) instructional book. I just plugged it in, entered my password and was connected in seconds. It's actually performing quite a bit better than my old adapter (which would stop functioning several times daily. I've been able to stream HD video, while having a download running in the background with several web pages pulled up without any interruption to performance. Stable, which is good and the product quality overall seems much better than even Netgear or Belkin adapters I've used (which feel flimsy and cheap). Only downfall is that it didn't give me the option to connect to my 5ghz connection (defaulted to the 2.4ghz, and the speed difference is noticable). *** EDIT: 8/10: You do need to download the drivers if you plan on using the 5ghz connection with Windows 10. Easy enough to install from the disk that's included or you can reach out to the company directly for the drivers. Regrefully the performance of the 5ghz connection on Windows 10 is horrible. I'm stuck using the 2.4ghz connection now until they release a future update to help with the performance. Because the performance issue isn't mentioned anywhere in the product description (but the product does state that it's fully compatible with Windows 10) I'm reducing my rating from 5 stars to 3 stars. **** Edit 8/16: Panda has reached back out to me citing that their driver is 100% functional with the 5ghz connection on Windows 10, and the issue encountered was due to my wireless settings. This contradicts what they previously stated in our communication. Reducing this to 1 due to the conflcting ifnormation and customer service issues this company has. I'll be purchasing another adapter from a seperate company that is 100% compatible with Windows 10 on a 5ghz connection.

Omg FINALLY! tried 3 alfa adapters, all of them had driver and/or Linux compatibility issues. I almost gave up. Used this on a raspberry pi 4 for aircrack-ng and other fun experiments. For Linux (well, any distro i tried), this thing is plug n play. Can't speak for windows 10 or Mac users, or for those requiring long distances or high speeds, but this thing worked flawlessly for me on Linux and the raspberry pi 4. This or maybe the pau06 are the only adapters I'll use for my Linux projects, bye bye alfa.

I use this device for my desktop. It also works great for linux installs where the native wifi adaptor needs additional support/drivers. Allows me to complete an install and get the rest of the hardware support before unplugging for safe keeping.

Purchased this due to he the built-in laptop wifi adaptor having issues with Ubuntu Linux, this works out of the box plugin and start using on Ubuntu 20.04. There was no need to install any drivers or compile etc in my case.

Don't buy this

Great product works with most devices no complains

Works well on both my Linux and Windows 10 based devices.