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Literally impossible for online gaming
1) Just like many 1-star reviews stated, this product has a serious latency/ping spike issue. It has 3 MIMO antennas, so when it's working, the speed is amazing. But every few seconds, the speed would drop from several hundred mbps to a few mbsp or even 0. I've changed almost all the advanced setting in the hardware configuration, but ,my online gaming was still dropped too frequent, and eventually I have to give up on this product. For comparison, I have a laptop using intel 7260AC wifi card, which has 2 antenna. Though intel 7260ac's top speed is not even close to this one, it's stable. Wouldn't drop to single digit mbps at all.
2) It kills my router's 5G connections. I didn't see anyone else complained about this, so this issue may only be my individual case. My router is Netgear's R7000 with 3 antennas. It supports 802.11ac. As this product is from netgear with 3 antennas, my router is from netgear, so theoretically they are the perfect match. But in reality, when this product is connected to my router in 5G band, every few hours it would kill the 5G connection completely. When this happens, all my other devices though still showing they are connected to my 5G signal, none of them can access internet at all. This happens even when I am not using A7000 to transfer anything large thru the router! Weird enough, all devices using 2.4G still can access internet. After I suspected this product and just using 2.4G connection, this never happens again. I am not sure it's this product or my router's defect. But as both of them are from netgear and still there's such a severe issue, I don't expect this product can work very well with other brands.
3) Last but not the least, windows 10 cannot recognize this product automatically. You have to download the driver or install it from the disc comes with the product.
January 2019 · Electronics · verified purchase