Panda Wireless® N600 Dual Band (2.4GHz & 5.0GHz) 300Mbps Wireless N USB Adapter w/WPS Button - Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11, Zorin, Mint, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Centos & Kali Linux

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!"

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.

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.

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.

I've gone through several USB wifi adapters that advertise Linux compatibility and this is the FIRST I've purchased that actually works (partially). The Good: * Works natively in latest version of Linux kernels without compiling drivers (plug and play); * Connected both on 2.4 and 5GHz (yay!). The Bad: * Very limited range, poor signal on computer located downstairs 20 ft away from the router (Asus N66U) which is upstairs; * 5GHz is very finicky about which channel it likes. I had to experiment with several before I could finally get it to connect. Once connected, the signal was so weak it was basically unusable. As noted above, I've tried several different USB wifi adapters that advertise Linux compatibility and this is the first one that actually works (see my other reviews for ones NOT to purchase). Unfortunately, this little adapter just didn't have the antenna / range for what I needed and 5GHz compatibility was very spotty and sometimes simply refused to connect. If you are very close to your router with no LOS issues this might be a good, cheap solution for a wifi adapter that actually works with Linux. If you need a more robust solution, you probably will be disappointed. I have finally given up on 5GHz wifi on Linux and am going to run ethernet through my attic and drop lines. I never had these issues with Windows, but then the whole point of going to Linux for us was to get away from MS so we will adapt and overcome.

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.

.. but just so-so wifi connection with my desktop Dell 9200 PC. . Signal drops. Router nearby and all my other devices work fine. Update: Even if I prioritize the desktop with my Google multi-nest router and reconfigure the network adapter via the Win10 Troubleshooter the signal still drops, esp while viewing YouTube videos. Update 10/17/2022: Finally reconfigured the Wifi device thru the Windows 10 to select only the 5 GHz signal when I queried the patient Panda rep. He finally acknowledged that was another solution in addition to prioritizing the PC desktop via my Google Home app under “devices”. Now the signal drops much less but YT videos still occasionally go to the buffer mode at which point I have to use the Win 10 troubleshooter and reconfigure the Panda wifi network adapter. Not perfect but better. The Dell desktop is old and yet it’s updated and works for my needs. No issues whatever with newer chips and software on my other devices

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.