Panda WirelessPAU0D AC1200 Wireless AC USB Adapter w/Dual Antennas - Windows 7/8/10/11/2019/2022, Zorin, MXLinux, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Rocky, Kali Linux and Raspbian

Product works as described and is the most affordable option for a Linux Wi-Fi adapter that works out of the box, at least with Debian/Ubuntu based distributions. It's plug and play. High connection speeds with decent signal gain thanks to the antennae, it should work for absolutely any consumer need or want.

Great adapter. I got this for my raspberry pi 5 to make a kali linux machine to use monitor mode. This worked for my exact needs. If your into ethical hacking and not sure what to buy this is it. Installs easy with no drivers , high speed and signal and I like that I can either plug right into the pi or has extention if needed.

My mini-PCs have horrible internal (PCIe) network hardware. Needed USB antenna to move transfer speeds into the 20-40Mbps range. This Panda, the third one I've tried, worked perfectly immediately after unboxing. Still does. If you've installed more than a few Linux distros, you know how sad it can be to have a poor wireless connection. I've githubbed too many one-off drivers. This one was connected in seconds, no errors, no downloads, no recompiles. I'm usually in the debian/ubuntu/mint area, but it worked fine with Rocky/CentOS too. Don't know nuthin' about Windows.

Purchased this instead of the HAK5 add-on module, and it works very well, right out of the box, plug and play, no configuration needed with the Pineapple Mark VII.

The great thing about this is its compatibility with a variety of Linux distros. Worked perfectly as plug and play with Fedora Linux. Antennas are a bit weak and you can get the same quality and dbi rating for half the price. The extra cost seems to be for the GREAT Linux compatibility.

Good range, good value and supports multiple modes. Also come with extension usb and base!

This adapter never worked quite right with my PC. The problem is the only driver you get is whatever Windows installs for you. The manufacturer doesn't offer a driver you can manually install yourself. So if something doesn't work right, too bad for you. Well, with my PC, for whatever reason, when I would go to shut down my PC, the WiFi adapter would never shut off, it would stay on and also be a little warm to the touch. So I would literally have to unplug it and plug it back in to get it to shut off after turning off my PC. The performance up to this point has been fine otherwise.Now, as of recently, I'm having significantly worse issues. The WiFi adapter will just randomly disconnect out of nowhere over and over and over again. Sometimes it'll disconnect only one time with my PC being on the whole day, sometimes it'll disconnect literally every single minute. It's random. I've tried everything I can to fix it. I've tried rolling back the driver version, updating to the latest version, uninstalling and installing the driver, resetting the network settings, the whole 9 yards with every website you'll come across from a "wifi adapter randomly disconnects" google search.Even worse, when you try to contact their support team, they'll treat you like you're either lying or stupid. I told them about the issue where my adapter wouldn't turn off when I shut my computer down, and they just responded with "Huh... well I just tried it with my machine and it worked as intended." THAT'S GREAT! I'm glad you tried it on YOUR machine, a machine out of literally billions on the planet, and it happened to work fine. Evidently that isn't the case with every machine available. I get it, there isn't much they can do. At least forward it to your engineering team or whatever your small company has so you can at least research it and take people's concerns seriously so that you may improve your current and future products.So looks like I'm in the market for another WiFi adapter. Joy... I sure do miss the last revision of Panda's adapter they had, it actually worked flawlessly. Don't know where they screwed up with this one.

The office this computer is in has for a number of years struggled to get wifi consistently. This unit has worked the best without dropping video sessions better then any of the other wifi adapter we have tried. Works great with the Ubuntu 24.04 desktop. I will purchase more of these units for the other offices.