features :
- Patented micro-antennas provide better speed and range than other N adapters
- Simultaneously connect to multiple Internet services & online media
- Speeds of up to 300 mbps
- As always, with NETGEAR's Smart WizardTM installation is easy
Customer Reviews
| 17 of 21 people found the following review helpful  Quick and easy access to faster wireless connections, By This review is from: Netgear WN111 RangeMax NEXT Wireless N Adapter Ref (Electronics) This review is written for non-technical people about improving the speed of their wireless access or getting on a laptop that does not have the capacity built in - For very little money!More and more people own laptop/notbook or the newer and even smaller "netbooks." The idea is pretty straight forward. A computer that is portable and can easily be taken from place to place, unlike our traditional desktop-type computers that are secured by both the sheer mass as well as by the multitude of wired connections they usually require to one place. The evolution of portable technology led to what we call, descriptively, "wireless" connections. There are connections to wireless system that do not require wired connections. What they DO require is a wireless adapter, often built into to newer notebook and netbook units. There are a couple of possible complications. One is having access from a portable computer that does not have a built-in wirele ss card and the other is having one, but wanting greater speed than the now older versions of wireless adapters allow. An inexpensive and entirely satisfactory solution to either issue is the Netgear WN111 v.2, available for about . new and for about . refurbished. I bought one of the latter and am please to say that it works perfectly. There are, essentially, four generations of wireless connections. They go by the shorthand designations of a,b,g and draft-n. "a" is the first and slowest and they increase in both speed and range up to the latest draft-n adapters and routers. Of course, for any wireless card or adapter to function, it must be within range and have access to a wireless router. These are ubiquitous at internet `hot spots' and are frequently becoming the connections of choice in peoples' homes. When I first wanted to increase the wireless download speed of my own notebook (two years old and with a built-in a/b/g wireless card, I mistaken ly thought that I would only need to replace that card with one that would receive the faster, `draft-n' signal. Wrong! Turns our that these small wireless cards are often necessarily compliant with the motherboards (the computer heart and brain of your machine) and the card cannot be replaced with a `draft-n' card because it will not work with the motherboard. I actually thought about replacing the notebook computer - though in all other respects, it performed perfectly. Then I discovered the magic of wireless adapters, including those that received the speedier `draft-n' signals and connected to the outside of a laptop by simply 1) downloading the software from the company's website if a disc did not come with I and then 1) plugging it into an available USB (v2) port. After trying several and doing a good deal of research, I settled on the Netgear NN111 v.2 wireless USB adapter. It works perfectly. There are other reasons you might want to consider getting one. If you have upgraded your wireless router at home from the now standard `g' or `a/b/g,' to one that spreads the coverage and increases the signal strength and downloading speed, you will find that if ANY device operating at less than the `draft-n' speed is connected to your network, the entire network will revert to the slower `g' configuration. For the `n' to work, every item connected to that network must be able to use the signal at that level or the whole shebang reverts (`downscales') to the lowest common denominator. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful Excellent for Windows but not good for Linux, By 2-wheels (Geneva, IL - near Chicago) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Netgear WN111 RangeMax NEXT Wireless N Adapter Ref (Electronics) The adapter really works very well. It comes with the Windows drivers and it is great. Good antenna and rock solid. However if you are a Linux person like me then you will not be very happy. I used it on three different Linux machines with Ubuntu, SUSE and PinguyOS distributions. Since Netgear doesn't support Linux there are no drivers. I got it to work and it simply shut down every 15 seconds. Re-plug it and the network connection started back up and then 15 seconds later dead again. I switched to another wireless adapter I have. An old ZyXEL adapter that I plugged in and it came right up and never shuts down. For those of you who are very technical I did install the ndis wrapper using the windows driver and still no luck So, I like it and it is really good just making sure to bring up the Linux issues to be helpful for other Linux fans. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful  NOT FOR MACINTOSH, Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Netgear WN111 RangeMax NEXT Wireless N Adapter Ref (Electronics) I BOUGHT TWO OF THESE WITHOUT DOING MUCH RESEARCH ON THE DRIVERS FOR THIS DONGLE, THEY ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH MACINTOSH, THIS IS JUST A WARNING FOR THOSE MAC OWNERS, IM SURE THIS IS A GOOD PRODUCT BY NETGEAR BUT THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE IT MORE UNIVERSAL, HOPE THIS HELPS :) |
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