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Okay, so I made a huge-a** mistake on one component I bought along with my desktop, this abomination, the Asus USB-N13 http://tinyurl.com/bqrszj6 Trust me, don't buy it.
Why is it an abomination? Simple, the failure rate at which it refuses to connect is 95% or so. Oh, this one takes the cake, the download speeds are a whopping 20 kbps! That's right, you can get wireless and dial up! Yes, wireless dial up, the dream of all apartment tenants and other potential buyers! Oh, and did I also mention that it drops connections randomly too?
tl;dr don't get this, it's easily one of the worst pieces of s**t money can buy! Guaranteed!
In all seriousness, this is the only Achilles Heel of my desktop, the wireless USB device, something I regret buying. The only reason I haven't RMA'd it yet was I wanted to test several things, to make sure it wasn't my internet at fault. I can't even surf a normal page without it losing the connection, I can't even download a 5 MB file without an ETA of 10 minutes showing up (and I have pictures capturing that very moment). In fact, it was so bad, I got as low as 1,200 bps (not bytes, but bits). This is but the icing on the cake, what really makes it shine is the fact it has trouble locating the apartment's router, which is <5 meters away from where I sit. It has to spend five minutes to find the router every time I start up or wake the desktop up from its sleep state.
And to set the record straight, this USB device is better than the apartment-issued dongle, but that's not saying much.
Honestly, I don't know why I've had such rotten luck with this sodding POS. I should have gotten a wireless network card instead, at least they can connect and not drop 9 outta 10 times. I ran ping tests and they resulted in >3500 ms and would rarely go < 500 ms, on top of 75% data packet loss in most tests I ran. The gateway address would show up, proving that I do "have" a connection, but the lag is horrific. So I not only am no longer able to send it in for credit (maybe), but I wrote a "nice" review about it on Newegg. I await their automated "apology" for the inconvenience.
Any recommendations for a good network card that isn't super cheap but not overly expensive? Granted, I have other means of connecting (laptop, Wii U, etc), but this is ridiculous.
Summary
- Bought Asus USB wireless
- USB dongle drops 95% of the time and refuses to connect to nearly every site without an error
- Download/upload speeds rarely exceed 30 kbps if I'm lucky. This is not sufficient for any activity on the internet.
- USB dongle is better than one issued by management, but not by much
Why is it an abomination? Simple, the failure rate at which it refuses to connect is 95% or so. Oh, this one takes the cake, the download speeds are a whopping 20 kbps! That's right, you can get wireless and dial up! Yes, wireless dial up, the dream of all apartment tenants and other potential buyers! Oh, and did I also mention that it drops connections randomly too?
tl;dr don't get this, it's easily one of the worst pieces of s**t money can buy! Guaranteed!
In all seriousness, this is the only Achilles Heel of my desktop, the wireless USB device, something I regret buying. The only reason I haven't RMA'd it yet was I wanted to test several things, to make sure it wasn't my internet at fault. I can't even surf a normal page without it losing the connection, I can't even download a 5 MB file without an ETA of 10 minutes showing up (and I have pictures capturing that very moment). In fact, it was so bad, I got as low as 1,200 bps (not bytes, but bits). This is but the icing on the cake, what really makes it shine is the fact it has trouble locating the apartment's router, which is <5 meters away from where I sit. It has to spend five minutes to find the router every time I start up or wake the desktop up from its sleep state.
And to set the record straight, this USB device is better than the apartment-issued dongle, but that's not saying much.
Honestly, I don't know why I've had such rotten luck with this sodding POS. I should have gotten a wireless network card instead, at least they can connect and not drop 9 outta 10 times. I ran ping tests and they resulted in >3500 ms and would rarely go < 500 ms, on top of 75% data packet loss in most tests I ran. The gateway address would show up, proving that I do "have" a connection, but the lag is horrific. So I not only am no longer able to send it in for credit (maybe), but I wrote a "nice" review about it on Newegg. I await their automated "apology" for the inconvenience.
Any recommendations for a good network card that isn't super cheap but not overly expensive? Granted, I have other means of connecting (laptop, Wii U, etc), but this is ridiculous.
Summary
- Bought Asus USB wireless
- USB dongle drops 95% of the time and refuses to connect to nearly every site without an error
- Download/upload speeds rarely exceed 30 kbps if I'm lucky. This is not sufficient for any activity on the internet.
- USB dongle is better than one issued by management, but not by much