USB-AC68

Bought this to replace a TP-LINK T4UH AC1200 wifi adapter which was starting to really underwhelm - with wifi dropouts that you can only fix by pulling it out and plugging it back in, half-arsed windows 10 drivers and an army of fellow buyers online with similar issues. I'm on Virgin's superfast 200mbps fibre package, and with this adapter paired with my TP LINK Archer C9 AC1900 router - the 5 GHz band refuses to drop below 217mbps. The connection is damn reliable and the drivers feed through the Windows 10 wifi notification icon to save you a mighty headache with unneeded wifi connection software. They also work flawlessly with Windows 10 !!! My router is located on the ground floor of my house, and my PC is in my room on the first floor - with plenty of electronics between and around the two. The 5 GHz band is phenomenal, with speed-tests through Ookla giving an average of 218.01Mbps Down and 12.20Mbps Up. For comparison, the 2.4 GHz gives an average of 94.17Mbps Down and 12.27Mbps Up My ping sits around a constant 9-10ms. My TP-LINK adapter would often reach upwards of 200mbps 5 GHz speeds but dropout after half an hour or so, with large variations in speed and signal strength. With this adapter I get constant full signal icons on both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands through windows 10. In terms of looks - this adapter looks morelike the marker from Dead Space or something from the new DOOM game than it does a piece of wifi kit. It's also big and bulky for a USB stick, but you feel as if the size and long antennas are what gives the adapter an advantage over other smaller usb dongles. Personally, I think it looks rather cool in it's cradle and think Asus have done a tremendous job with this adapter. I would highly recommend this to anyone suffering with frustratingly poor wifi stability and speed - and who have ac functionality present in their router. The impressive 5 GHz speed is more than worth the higher price tag - and this is a tech category that you especially don't want to cut corners with.

Hello guys, I've recently bought this item. I have it for 2 days. Currently I did what did the manually said in the first place, I have installed first the drivers than connected the device and rebooted. I'm a windows 10 user, 64bits. On my first connection, for like 10 minutes it started to disconnect by it self. However this is not a new thing to me. I had a similar issue with my tc4u wireless adapter from tp link. However, I've changed it to another USB 3.0 and currently works very smoothly both in games and streaming videos youtube, Netflix, etc. The 5.0 ghz signal is very powerful currently due to the external antennas. With my old adapter, I barely had a 120mb signal from my room, the connection wasn't stable in games and the streaming was also affected. Right now all of my issues are gone. I think i will repost in 1 week or 2. Right now my signal from my wif fi it is around 360 mb, I know it's not much but keep in mind that, I leave in a house with 5 people with mobiles phones p.c's etc. The load on the router it self it's heavy. I'm very happy despite of the bad ratings and warning comments. I've bought many adapters during the last years, cheap ones and I think this purchase it is by far the best one.Worth every peny! :). For those who are searching for something high end, this product for sure is one, at least in my opinion.

I got this a few years ago and it either had a poor signal receiving or it simply couldn't coope through two walls. I did change antenna in my PC since then, however I am saying of what I can remember. Setup was nice and easy but I had to upgrade.

Don't normally write reviews, but found existing reviews on here to be a little misleading which made me a little anxious in purchasing. I'm temporarily living in a place which has shared internet amongst rooms and I'm in the room furthest from the router. On my previous wifi adaptor (the Asus AC1200), I was only getting ~5-8Mb/s (bits not bytes) and this is now hitting 50-55Mb/s. I'm moving at the end of the month to a place where I'll have a much higher tarriff so will be able to comment on higher speeds then, but as it stands: it's easy to install (literally just run setup from the disc provided), the cable length is ~1m long which is fine for me and there's been no problems with setup. it's a 5-10 factor increase in speed on the AC1200 (standard), which is not something to be frowned at. In terms of value for money, my previous adaptor is still selling for £33, so it's not much of a leap to buy this. Ergonomically, I kind of like how it looks like it's standing up and cheering for you I'm not sure where other people have had problems, I'm running on windows 10, but read somewhere that there was speculation that performance issues were from older batches of this adaptor.

My Lenovo laptop has been struggling with our wifi network and diagnosis suggested the drivers +/- network adapter were at fault. Nothing worked so I chanced the creation of a second wifi network through the installation of this piece of kit. Firstly, the installation guidance was absolutely accurate but close enough that you can be confident it really is properly installed - but, because it gave a bit of trouble I give four stars as fractions don't work! Instantly, I had wifi networking very close to the router LAN network connection to the internet. The signals no longer mysteriously stop - stability is rock solid. So, worth every penny - it occurred to me that I could equally install it on my old desktop PC to give it wifi. Just an idea if anyone else finds themselves in that circumstance. I have learnt to relax, knowing my surfing and website maintenance won't suddenly die.

Returned after not even a day of use. Out of the box, installation was a breeze, and connected to my home network without a problem. My issue became apparent after trying to transfer some files via ftp from the internet across my home network, where I noticed the speed was slightly slower than when using my integrated WiFi. So I tested a file transfer from my NAS to PC, where using my integrated WiFi, I would get somewhere around 25-28 MB/S. And, the USB stick could not even manage 2. That was on the 5Ghz network, and the same on 2.4, and even the 2.4 connection was somewhat odd, it would keep acting like the USB stick had been pulled out and plugged back in instantly, every 10 or so seconds. I've ruled out my machine as the issue as it did the same on 2 other laptops, so possibly a defective unit, either way, wont be bothering with another. Shame, ASUS.

Having used this adapter for over a year now I've become very familiar with it, and with its problems. I'm being forced to replace this wifi adapter now after weeks of troubleshooting, which finally concluded that this adapter is the problem, the connection is unstable and the device crashes under even light loads (even as little as 7mb/s downloads are crashing it now), i finally figured out exactly how to recreate the errors and tested with other wifi adapters, confirming this one is the problem, and theres no fix. Pros: -Fast connection speeds (877 link rate on 802.11ac / wifi5) -took my internet speeds from 30mbps to around 360mbps ( vs an old BT600 adapter limited to 802.11n / wifi4) -Signal strength is decent, though router and signal type also affect this -Easy to install and extension cable is useful (practically a must) Cons: -Unstable connection under load, Gets progressively worse as time goes on -gets very hot -Very large, i wouldn't want this sticking out the side of a laptop. Its too big to fit in a USB on the back of my PC, nor on the top, there's just not enough space. and it would likely get snapped anyway. so the extension cable is needed. -expensive compared to other products of a similar spec

Well I am on my 3rd wireless adapter for my PC. After doing some research and finally choosing the ASUS what can I say? Wow, I am blown away. So fast on the internet and does not drop out and I am on 5G (which my Netgear A6210 Genie couldn't really handle as kept dropping out and so slow, even though it was supposed to be fast). Even my Canon printer is fast and scanning I can't keep up! I can 100% recommend this especially as my pc is upstairs at the back of the house, whilst my router is at the front of the house downstairs. My PC has never ever been so fast on the internet.