PAU09 N600 Dual Band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wireless N USB Adapter W/Dual 5dBi Antennas - Windows 7/8/10/11, Zorin, Mint, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Centos, Kali and Raspbian

Build is of high quality, I have been using this product for quite some time already and absolutely not issues.Device works well in Linux and Windows a like. Card is capable of entering promiscuous mode which is great for wifi mapping and seeing conflicting signals.

It was an ordeal trying to get it installed! It works fine now, but there are so many details about this for Linux that could be really good to know.* It took some force to make the USB plug go into the hole!* There's a green LED on the antenna that lights up if the wifi connection is made, and flashes when it's transmitting or receiving* In Linux apparently it's an ongoing struggle to work with the manufacturers of the chipsets to make the wireless antenna compatible with Linux. Open source software is sometimes available. Software from the manufacturer is sometimes more or less compatible and workable. And this particular gadget works with Ubuntu and Dell in 2025. I'm not recalling the details of the chipset. Amazon might not be the best place to get this from.* I had to install two or three packages and start a service to get it to run in Ubuntu.* Support team supported me very well, emailing back and forth.Overall this solved the problem of having an older, smaller panda antenna that was dropping out whenever the zoom call started to get exciting.

For Linux users. I bought this adapter instead of a standard adapter because we have a very large old house with 12" walls, and I have trouble with wireless range on most usb adapters. I have been pleasantly surprised by the performance of the adapter, but I have actually been amazed with the performance of the Panda support team. I have been in touch with them several times because I initially had trouble with my 5GHz band performance. They reply at once, and the information they request is cogent and the solutions that they offer are sensible and they work.The adapter is plug and play for Linux. You do need to install the proper firmware for your distribution, but that is true of any adapter that you purchase. The installation disk only has Fedora files, so you will have to find the firmware necessary for your distribution. For Debian Jessie, for instance, it is firmware-ralink, and for Debian Stretch it is firmware-misc-nonfree. In any event, after you install the proper firmware, the adapter is plug and play. It is also worth mentioning here that if you run PCLinuxOS, the firmware will already be in place and the adapter is truly plug and play. Just configure your internet connection and away you go.Performance. Ironically, the reason that I initially contacted Panda support is because I was having trouble with stability on the 5GHz channel. I had no such problems with the adapters that I was using, so I was confused that this one would be less effective. It turns out that the extended range of the adapter also meant that interference from a neighbor's connection caused the occasional signal drop. Alex from Panda's support team picked up the problem immediately, and I have had no trouble since.I can absolutely recommend this adapter for Linux installations.RLF

The device works well, but if you need a long range unit, then you need to be creative and either replace the antennas or find a good signal booster (or both). If your goal is to experiment pen testing stuff, I assure you that it works with Kali Linux and offers monitor mode plus packet injection.

[back from the future] 3/4/19Great Wi-Fi device for Windows. Would tell the "past me" to buy it again :)[back to the past]I wanted to FINALLY get 5Ghz working... 2.4 "monitoring" (wink) is becoming so yesterday.. Well I'm here to say it WORKS! And it was drop dead easy.. My setup is a Pi 3 + Raspbian (box stock except for updates)... and the Panda 09. No additional drivers or dicking around to get it up and running, at least on Raspbian :) To get it to scan the 5Ghz band you just need to add the switch "--band a" (this will scan 5Ghz). or "--band ag" ( 2.4 & 5g). As in: "sudo airodumpt-ng --band a wlan0mon. Or "--band an" for 2.4 & 5ghz. The "man" docs in Raspbian clearly state this however other sources I found on line omitted this small detail. So read the actual MAN pages for the real scoop. P.S. I believe this Panda 09 adapter doesn't support A or AC @5gh. Correct me if I"m wrong. But it does see all the 5Ghz on N on my network. Which is 99% of the battle IMHO. So this still isn't the ultimate adapter.. but I'm glad to finally be out of the 2.4 ghetto for a breath of fresh air. Cheers!Other worthy note. Works under Windows 10 "out of the box". No other drivers or software required. Nice!

I'm using this on a Linux host to broadcast multiple SSIDs with hostapd. Working great. Signal is strong, I even have suitable signal from this to add IoT devices in a partial metal outbuilding where I thought for sure I was going to have to run fiber to add a remote AP. Good unit.Only gripe is the little stand is way too small, it falls over easily. But that's just a USB passthrough socket in a base, so easily mitigated/replaced.