Penguin 802.11N USB Wifi Adapter Card for Wireless Ubuntu GNU Linux Mint Zorin
$49.97
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- s***i (154)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSorry for the late review. I'm not able to test this out yet, but shipping was fast and it wasprofessionally packaged.
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Reviews (2)
Nov 16, 2018
The product doesn't work as advertised
I bought this for an employee. So my company assembles computers and one of our engineers did some testing on this product and it turns out that the product is cheap and of defective design. It does not work as advertised. It will not ground the user nor protect electronics. We ended up cutting one open to see if there was even a wire inside. There was, but presume the connection is broken somewhere. I'd suggest looking elsewhere for an anti-static strap.
Feb 08, 2019
Why a few critical reviews are just wrong
The complaint: Device does work with USB 1.1 or 2.0. Most likely the user is describing a problem with a defective USB controller or built-in USB hub.
This sort of problem is not specific to a USB device, but rather can be reproduced with different devices on the market. Even if some USB devices work that does not mean the issue is with the USB devices. Some USB controllers flake out when larger USB packets are sent. So keyboards, mice, etc work, but not USB hard drives, wifi adapters, etc.
The complaint: Poor signal.
The adapter is not designed for long range use. However the more likely problem is not range as it is an issue with the USB controller on the machine the adapter is being used on. The problem is probably the same issue described above. ThinkPenguin released a firmware that reduces the size of the USB packet used by the adapter and this will make the adapter work on systems with defective USB controllers in some instances.
The complaint: There's no shortage of superior adapters out there for a fraction of the price.
False. ThinkPenguin is the only company manufacturing adapters today with the AR9271 chipset. The AR9271 chip is the only modern USB wifi chipset with a complete set of source code for both the driver and firmware and as such only adapters with this chipset can be properly supported on ANY operating system. The company is also the only reason that there were ever USB wifi adapters on the market which could be properly supported in recent time. The company spent years working with Atheros (the company that designed the chipset) on a complete source code release. This enables the GNU/Linux community to properly and indefinitely support the wifi adapter. This included an eventual port and support for other operating systems like FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
The complaint: Needs OS config changes for some Debian os's.
This is true of one obscure distribution that nobody uses that has a bug in it (ie the developers went and did rm -rf * in the firmware directory) and of pure Debian. This is not really a fault of the adapter or Debian, but rather is the result of a set of choices made. Debian does not include wifi firmwares in the installation medium. If you don't like this Debian is probably not the distribution for you. Debian does have firmware in its software repository and Debian and the other buggy distribution do have the driver as its built into the mainline kernel AND linux-libre kernel for those distributions that do not utilize the mainline kernel.