Panda PAU09 N600 USB WiFi Works Fine With Linux

[gsedej]

Does it need nonfree firmware, mening you need wired network to download fw...?

[Sonadow]

80211n is now ancient.

80211ad is about to be pushed out and yet we still can't find any 80211ac usb wifi dongles that work OOTB in Linux. What a freaking joke the Linux WiFi driver stack is.

[stiiixy]

Always good to see hardware achnolwedgement.

M1kko, I believe some laptops actually hook in to metallic parts of the chassis in order to improve their reception. I noticed on my own laptop that the wiring is also quite long. As you note, and whatever tech is used, reception does seem to work quite well in lappies.

[M1kkko]

Really, the range of a relatively large external wifi antenna is comparable to the internal wifi cards found in ultrabooks? Is that a good thing?

[Chewi]

Good to know something like this exists now. Years ago, I was looking for a dual band PCI Express card and couldn't understand why there were none to be found anywhere. I eventually realised that routers, at least at the time, must have had two adapters.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Panda PAU09 N600 USB WiFi Works Fine With Linux

If you are in the market for a dual-band USB WiFi adapter, the Panda PAU09 N600 WiFi adapter works well on modern Linux distributions and will cost you just about $20 USD.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=24588