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- #61 in Laptop Network Adapters
Product Description
Smart AX901-Upgrade Your PC/Laptop/Desktop to Latest Wi-Fi 6 Standard Function
AX901-Features New Generation Wi-Fi 6, Allows You to Game and Stream 4K Videos
AX901 Features High-Speed Dual Bands 2.4G/5G, More Stable and Fast Connectivity
Simply Plug, Simply Connect for Your Windows 11/10/7 PC/Desktop/Laptop
1971 Hummer
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2025
I have tried a number of different 'solutions' to my speed problem. I haveAt&t All-fi internet air service. My laptop at my desk several rooms away from router. My laptop is juat a little over the hill. onboard 802.11 adapter was only capable of 2.4G. This new little (thumb-sized) adapter gave me true 5G speed I did not have previously. Setup wss easy. Plug device into USB. Driver install should autos start Install the driver then restart you computer. disable your onboard NIC. click on your network icon in your system tray on Windows. My machine is running windows 11 64 bit Home. My average Speed test now affords me 80 Mbps performance download and about 8 Mbps upload. very worthwhile solution in my opinion.
Mathew Joseph
Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2025
it works that is all that matters
MD
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 2, 2025
Outstanding - all I had to do was stick it in the usb port and my older computer that could only pick up 2.4G WiFi instantly picked up the 5G signal and connected. Very happy
jack
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2025
Arrived in time and in great condition. this installed very quickly , very pleased with that. have been using this for a week or so now. it is doing a fine job. at times it takes a few more seconds to boot itself up or pages do similar. If Youtube would lay off of those every 3 minute add's this would be an excellent Adapter for what I use it for. I do suggest this as an useful item.
Bill L
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2025
Most importantly- product works as designed. Good quality, strong signal, easy setup.
OtakuN3rd
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2025
This is a very interesting solution for "no driver needed" network cards. Spoiler alert: a driver IS required!As any IT professional would know, all hardware devices require a driver of some sort. Its just a matter of if its included with your operating system or if it requires a separate installation. This falls into the latter case.Historically, drivers would be distributed on floppy disks or CD-ROMs, later you would need an Internet connection for a download (especially since more and more its a rarity to have a computer with a CD/DVD drive). Downloading a driver for a network card is a pretty tall ask if the driver is for the device that will get your computer online in the first place! That's where this USB Wi-Fi dongle has a trick up its sleeve.When you first plug this in, it pretends to be a USB flash drive (with a tiny capacity of 4MB) and has the driver installer on it! You have to go to Computer > Removable Disk, and then run the program called Wi-Fi Driver to turn it into a network card. After the the driver is installed, it will hide the flash drive part, and then show up as a AIC8800D80 USB WiFi in the Windows Device Manager.It looks like the driver installer has driver files for Windows 7 and Windows 10, both 32-bit and 64-bit. I can confirm this also worked fine on Windows 11, and I would suspect Windows 8/8.1 would be fine with the Windows 7 drivers as well. Older versions are likely out of luck, but I didn't explicitly test any.Linux support, unfortunately, appears non-existent. Linux Mint just sees the fake flash drive with the Windows driver. I suspect Mac users are also out of luck, but its unlikely a Mac user would even need a USB Wi-Fi dongle.I have two versions of this Wi-Fi dongle. One has the attached 5dbi antenna, the other is just the small dongle with no antenna sticking off. Both have the same wireless chipset, have the same flash drive in disguise trick, and use the same drivers. The one with the external antenna does have a real external antenna, and it does measurably perform better on my home wi-fi than the one without the long external antenna. Annoyingly, it is not a removable antenna, and it can be continuously spun around. This leaves the potential that it may break, so if durability is more of a concern than performance, consider the one that doesn't have the antenna sticking out of it.Ultimately one of these will be used on a desktop computer where it will be cost-prohibitive to run a wired network cable. It is performance-limited (bottlenecked) by the USB 2.0 bus that it is connected to. That being said, they both seem to work fine for basic day to day tasks.If you're on Windows 7 or newer and need a quick and dirty way to get onto Wi-Fi, these are worth considering if you're not comfortable installing an internal Wi-Fi card.
Jeff Moore
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2025
2017 PC Windows upgraded to 10 with bad internal wifi card.Plugged in the Hakimonoe USB and within 2-3 minutes the install was instant and full connectivity on family PC. Also worked when unplugged from PC and installed on 2 different laptops and worked just fine even outside the home around the yard and recreation areas.Well worth the price paid in Dec 2024.
eric
Reviewed in Canada on December 28, 2024
easy to install
Gary Karasik
Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2024
I am determined to keep my Win7 computers running, so I'm always on the lookout for devices that will let me upgrade my old computers to more modern standards. I've recently added a PCI-E board that provides two USB 3.0 ports, a Bluetooth 5.4 dongle, and this high-speed WiFi dongle.The drivers for this WiFi dongle come on a supplied USB stick. To install, first you plug the WiFi dongle into a free USB port. It can be plugged into either a USB2 or USB3 port; it's faster in USB3, but it's reasonably fast in either, giving me better 150mbs speeds in USB2 and 200mbs in USB3. After plugging the dongle in, the initial driver load will fail--Win7 does not come with built-in drivers for this device--and you'll then go to Device Manager, find the incompletely loaded device, then update the driver via navigating to the appropriate sub-folder on the supplied USB stick.One consideration: This is a large device--3" x 1" x 3/4" (and with the two antennas extended, it's even bigger)--so if you have no free USB ports on the front of your PC, you'll need to put the dongle in the rear with all the potential inconvenience of that. Fortunately, this dongle works with a USB extension cord, which allows more convenient placement. I used a 2' cord, and it works fine.One caveat: On the supplied USB stick, there is a Setup utility in the "Windows Driver" directory. This Setup utility does not run on Win7 32-bit. (Perhaps it runs on 64-bit, but I couldn't test that). However in that directory's "WlanUI" sub-folder, there is another Setup utility, and that one does run on Win7 32-bit. This latter Setup utility will add a WiFi utility, but if you're comfortable with Win7's built-in WiFi-control, you won't need it.For Win7 die-hards, the install process is not effortless, but neither is it overly cumbersome, and the result is worth the effort. Once installed, the device works well, and it extends my ancient PC's life.
razz
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2024
just followed the instructions everything good
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