Question Recommended USB WiFi adapters for a PC ?

[cloudff7ps1]

Which models of USB WiFi Adapters sold by Aliexpress are good, stable and give a strong signal at a low price, and what functions are necessary for good performance ?

 

[Lutfij]

Which models of USB WiFi Adapters sold by Aliexpress are good, stable and give a strong signal at a low price, and what functions are necessary for good performance ?

What is your budget? What is your location? Signal strength will depend on a couple of factors, like where your router is placed, if you have anything between your wireless router/access point and the USB driven adapter.

Perhaps we might be able to suggest something better. How about you pass on your system's specs like so:
CPU:
CPU cooler:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:
Monitor:
include the age of the PSU apart from it's make and model.

 

[bill001g]

The problem with aliexpress there are outright thieves selling stuff on the site and it is hard to tell a legitimate seller from a thief. Aliexpress does little to nothing about it until it gets extreme.

The less serious issue, at least for a buyer , is all the equipment that is being manufactured without paying the license fees. In these cases the manufacture that makes these boards for brands names just made a bunch more under the table.

The key thing is that they do not actually make the wifi chips they just put them on boards.

In any case what you look for, for a desktop machine, is physical size and a device that comes with a USB cable. Those extremely tiny devices that almost fit inside the USB jack are really designed for laptop or tablets. They favor small size and low battery usage over performance. These devices have lower power radio transmitters and the antenna are very tiny and if you put them in a back of a desktop all the metal of the motherboard and case blocks the signals.

These devices used to sell for like 99 cents on aliexpress before they changed the law related to customs mailed into the USA.

A large device with big antenna that sits on top of the PC case is the best option. No way to tell for sure what is inside the device until you get it and can look at the chips to see if they ripped you off when you buy on ali

 

[cloudff7ps1]

My PC IS i5 3470, 16gb ram ddr3, asrock b75m-dgs r2.0, Radeon R7 360, Power supply Corsair cx500, Windows 10, HDD 2.5" and ssd, monitor led ips LG 23.5" i lived in Brazil state Ceara

My router IS TP-Link wifi6 AX3000

I not have many money in. Aliexpress low cost

 

[Hasselblad]

Why would anyone buy from AliExpress, well I did, twice

BIGGEST mistakes I ever made, never ever again

I have used and would 100% recommend NETGEAR or this make

https://www.amazon.co.uk/BrosTrend-...belkin+pc+wireless+usb+adapter,aps,79&sr=8-10

 

[Hasselblad]

This is what I used up to last week, 100% A1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CYCKZF34?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3&th=1

 

[Hasselblad]

My PC IS i5 3470, 16gb ram ddr3, asrock b75m-dgs r2.0, Radeon R7 360, Power supply Corsair cx500, Windows 10, HDD 2.5" and ssd, monitor led ips LG 23.5" i lived in Brazil state Ceara

My router IS TP-Link wifi6 AX3000

I not have many money in. Aliexpress low cost

AliExpress will cost you money when you find it doesn't work and can't return it

Go for pre owned

If you buy from AI good luck

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/20562585...xO+UU87QFPaP3QYpvY8/UA9Q==|tkp:Bk9SR6K6tp-GZg

 

[Hasselblad]

I had to fall back on this last week, and it works,

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/23521563...-8937-e28e8f42c7e1|iid:2|vlpname:vlp_homepage

 

[USAFRet]

I not have many money in. Aliexpress low cost

What IS the budget for this?
Specific number, please.

https://www.amazon.com.br/s?k=usb+w...UZNT&sprefix=usb+wifi,aps,72&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

 

[cloudff7ps1]

Netgear very expensive converting to Brazilian currency

I didn't know I would need to invest a lot of money for a good product

 

[cruisetung]

Avoid AliExpress as suggested. See if you have Totolink or Mercusys in Brazil, might be a little cheaper than TPLink.

 

[USAFRet]

Netgear very expensive converting to Brazilian currency

I didn't know I would need to invest a lot of money for a good product

Giving us an actual budget number might help us to give you better advice.

 

[cruisetung]

Maybe this one in Brazil?

https://www.mercadolivre.com.br/kep...r-wifi-usb-wifi-antena-wifi-802/p/MLB22599122

 

[cloudff7ps1]

Maybe this one in Brazil?

https://www.mercadolivre.com.br/kep...r-wifi-usb-wifi-antena-wifi-802/p/MLB22599122

1 antena IS good or bad compared 4 antenas?

 

[cloudff7ps1]

Maximum 8,50 Dólar IS possibly good adapters?

 

[USAFRet]

Maximum 8,50 Dólar IS possibly good adapters?

Have you looked at that Amazon search?

 

[bill001g]

1 antena IS good or bad compared 4 antenas

They are trying to pretend that the device can run 4x4 mimo. I have not seen a usb device that can run 4x4 mimo and even PCIE cards are very rare.

What they are doing is putting 2 antenna on the 2.4g radio and 2 antenna on the 5g radio. This is stupid since the 2 radios can share the same antenna.

This is one of the many deceptive things you find on aliexpress (other sites also but not as bad). This one is not a actual lie since they state the speeds the radios run and if you are tech savvy enough you know it is not running 4x4 mimo.

Lots and lots of deceptive stuff. A company selling wifi7 USB adapters but in the fine print it says it only runs on 2.4 and 5g. The whole reason wifi7 exists is to run on 6ghz.

There is no way to tell anything about what you buy from aliexpress it is all a gamble. In any case you also want a USB cable to move the device away from the back of your PC.

 

[cloudff7ps1]

I don't have the technical knowledge to choose a good model to use on my PC. There are models with 1 antenna, 2 antennas, and 4 antennas. Amazon has more expensive shipping and taxes to Brazil.

 

[cruisetung]

1 antena IS good or bad compared 4 antenas?

You want it cheap and what speed you are looking for? 4K video only requires 30Mbps. If one antenna can achieve 433Mbps then it's great.

The product at least has very good reviews it seems with about 4.5 stars. I don't know Portuguese, I use Google translation.

 

[USAFRet]

I don't have the technical knowledge to choose a good model to use on my PC. There are models with 1 antenna, 2 antennas, and 4 antennas. Amazon has more expensive shipping and taxes to Brazil.

The one listed in Post #13 is almost certainly no crappier than anything else at that pricepoint.
And less of a gamble than AliExpress.

Buy that one.

 

[cloudff7ps1]

I liked the price of the model in post 13, do you have any reviews of it? Is it stable and has a strong signal even with obstacles like walls and a distance of 10 meters from the tplink wifi6 AX3000 router?


I saw many antennas 4 small ones x 1 big antenna but there is not much difference

 

[cruisetung]

I liked the price of the model in post 13, do you have any reviews of it? Is it stable and has a strong signal even with obstacles like walls and a distance of 10 meters from the tplink wifi6 AX3000 router?

The reviews are right on the site. wifi is always trial and error, no one knows the result until tested in that particular environment. Wall can be concrete, bricks, woods, drywall, etc. You will always get different result,

https://www.mercadolivre.com.br/kep...sb-wifi-antena-wifi-802/p/MLB22599122#reviews

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

My two cents! If you buy cheap, you buy twice!! Or in the case of Aliexpress, you buy a third time or fourth.

Get something decent.

 

[USAFRet]

I liked the price of the model in post 13, do you have any reviews of it? Is it stable and has a strong signal even with obstacles like walls and a distance of 10 meters from the tplink wifi6 AX3000 router?

I doubt you'd find any specific independant reviews of it.

But the innards of it are almost certainly exactly the same as any other $10 USB WiFi device.

 

[cloudff7ps1]

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This adapter is USB 2.0 and my internet plan from the provider is 600mbps, will 2.0 be a limitation on downloads?