BrosTrend AC1200 Linux WiFi Adapter for PC Compatible with Ubuntu Mint Kali

Worked fine with Linux Mint 22.2 on a 2012 HP Pavilon desktop. Plug and Play. No problem identifying the usb wifi device. No need for any drivers. It just showed up in the wifi choices. Clicked on it and it worked. (much better than the stock 2012 built in wifi card). I averaged 199 MPS download and 245 MPS upload across 4 speed test sites for a total of 20 tests. My newish phone will get over 300 MBS regularly. So it was a decently speedy. I think the speed is limited because this old computer has only USB 2.0 and that was the max it could get with USB 2.0. A good product. I ultimately chose a cheaper usb wifi that was just 10% faster on the downloads. No complaints though, if the cheap one breaks I will purchase this one. Search around for linux wifi usb and you will find my other reviews and the one I kept.

Most of my daily work is heavily based on Linux based OS. The wifi chip on my laptop started malfunctioning and I had no access to wireless internet. My laptop is 8 years old, and I do not plan to buy a new one. Still a lot of life left. Working with wired internet (which I could ) at home is neither easy nor convenient. I was looking since 6 months , a wifi adapter which would be suitable for my linux OS. I tried conventional ones from TPlink and Netgear, but the online drivers available did not work for me. They were so designed for windows that you could plug in it to your windows machine they would work without driver installation. I was literally frustrated, trying to run shell scripts here and there to fix bugs and make the TPLink/ Netgear adapters work for me. But I failed. I came across the Brotrend adapter and bought one. It works like a charm. The linux installation is very easy, if you know basic shell commands (honestly you can just follow the instructions blindly). The support team is super helpful and they provide a detailed step-by-step guide for installing the linux driver. Note, they recommend internet access during driver installation since it downloads some debian package. You can use a wired ethernet connection from your router. The online internet speed check reveals the following metric: ping: 5 ms, download speed 83.40 mbps, upload speed: 75.45 mbps. The speed graphs are almost flat, with no variation. The router is in the first floor, and I work in the second floor. Very happy with my purchase, perhaps elated...I can resume normal work with my linux laptop after 6 months now. I would highly recommend this to people using linux OS, who needs speed boostup, or are interested in working in old laptops whose wifi chips are broken.

I have a Linux computer and this drive was a life saver for me. I didn't realize that I needed a much stronger wifi adapter until I purchased BrosTrend. Now I don't have those networks hiccups anymore. The wifi is much faster and stronger ( in my opinion).Easy setup and ready to go.

I've been searching high and low to find a good AC WiFi adapter that works with Linux. I bought a Netgear A6210 and was quite disappointed to find that it did not work in Linux. Yeah, there are some folks with git repositories out there with instructions on how to install the drivers but I always had connection dropping issues. I stumbled on this product after my search on Amazon. I was very skeptical about buying a product from a brand I never heard of but I took a chance because I got a prompt response when I posted a question on Amazon. When the adapter arrived, I attempted installation with the CD that came in the package but that didn't work. I searched on the manufacturer's website and found no drivers for Linux. Finally, I reached out to customer support about instructions on installing the driver in Linux and did get a prompt response. I followed the instructions I received via email and I was able to get the drivers to work without any issues. I've been using this for about a month now and I get the advertised speeds. I'm quite happy with my purchase. The reason I gave this product 4 stars is because of the following: - the drivers from the supplied CD didn't work - I had to reach out to customer service to get instructions on how to install the drivers - the manufacturer's website also had no instructions for linux I would prefer removing the manual step of getting customer service in this entire process. Ideally the drivers from the CD should work. I understand it is hard to keep the drivers updated by distributing them via a CD. The next option would be to make the latest drivers and instructions available on the manufacturers website to make this whole process seamless to a certain extent. The only other issue I had was, though the driver uses DKMS for installation, on a kernel upgrade the device stopped functioning. After some quick googling, I found that I had to edit the make command in the dkms.conf file in the /usr/src folder to include the kernel version and now DKMS works as expected. I will be reaching out to the manufacturer with my findings so they can fix the issue upstream. I wish they had a git repo so I can submit a quick pull request with my fix.

Plug and play on Linux Zorin. I was shocked. Made it a lot simpler for me. Very satisfied.

It says 1200Mbps. Would you believe 90Mbps? Because that's what I got. I contacted them for help and they gave me 2 things to do and some suggestions. I am using Zorin OS 17.3 6.8.0-87-generic for this test because it's listed in the description. 1 - run a script from their web site. a blind script, so I don't knw what it really did. I got 90Mbps down/20Mbps up It turns off after about 15 minutes so I have to go turn off WiFi and turn it back on. But it did run. I said - Is there a fix for speed? 2 - It comes as a USB 2.0 stick, so fix a config and make it USB 3.0 Didn't help. At all. But I did verify it was now a USB 3.0 stick. I said - It's still slow. 3 - They said to make it use 5G with a 40Mhz signal. (or something like that) What? I have 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. That must be WiFi 6 or 7. Who has that and how would you do that? So now it sits on the table. I will test later on another PC, another distro later. I do not recommend this USB stick.

Works on 9 year old Dell All-In system running Linux Mint 22.3. Also worked on an HP tower that came with Windows 7.

I have a raspberry pi that I want to use as a moisture detector in my basement. Getting cat-5 to the location is next to impossible, so I thought I would try wifi with it. A quick check online shows this model has drivers for linux, including the raspberry. As I have the pi already connected to my network via cat 5, so I can write my code, I kept it there to install the drivers for the wireless adaptor, so having to have it online to install the drivers is no big deal. In my case, with the low powered cpu in the raspberry, and limited memory, the install process appeared to hang, and it would throw an error (in the error was a line that I was told to enter to finish the install, which I promptly ignored the first time, dumb-me that I am.) So I emailed BrosTrend, sending the requested info, asking what to do. I promptly received a reply saying they received my mail and would have someone get back to me. Sometime overnight I received an email with the answer... run the command in the error message and wait it out. Both emails were very polite, and I felt comfortable 'talking' to them. Anyway, after a bit of time, the drivers were installed! It turns out the ubuntu autoupdate routine interfered with the driver install, due to the low processing power of the pi. However, running speed tests on my gig service and Ubiquiti wireless network delivers some impressive speeds approaching 500mbps, and this is on my 25$ raspberry pi. Linux reports it is a stable 870mbit connection. I plan to connect the BrosTrend adapter to my laptop and see what kind of speeds I can get. I would highly recommend this to anyone, and already had a work-mate write the name down to reference for his own use! The picture makes it look large, but that's because the computer is so tiny! It is about as long as a pack of gum and about half as thick.

Really fast delivery. The adapter came with both windows and linux drivers on cd, as well as clear instructions on the install. Which turned out to be unnecessary for my Kubuntu install as it just worked out of the box! That is no mean feat in Linux land and I am actually quite impressed. I think it is an excellent product.

Très bien

I'm using the BrosTrend AC1L Wireless Dual Band USB Adaptor on a 10 year old Asus X401A laptop to give me 5GHz Wifi - the laptop only has 2.4GHz as standard. It works very well, much faster than I expected since the laptop has only USB-2 ports. I don't normally review products I buy on Amazon but this one is good enough to make me do so. So, if you are looking for a dual band wi-fi USB adaptor for Linux, then you need to read the description from BrosTrend very carefully to make sure it will work for you. Specifically, it does not work on all Linux distros. So, make sure your distro is not on the unsupported list - as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Centos are for example. If you pass this test, make sure the version of your Linux distro is present in the supported list. If it is, you are good to go. For anything else, contact BrosTrend by email and ask them, don't waste your time and money on a gamble. Before you order from Amazon, check again that you are ordering the Linux adaptor, rather than the Windows or Apple one. What you will receive will be the adaptor and a mini-CD containing drivers. The packaging will also tell you that you can contact BrosTrend for technical support. I found I didn't need the support ticket, I simply went to the BrosTrend website and found the download page for the AC1L, and downloaded the Quick Installation Guide for Linux. It's a PDF that gets displayed using a Google online viewer but it works fine. I then followed the instructions absolutely as specified - they are complete, simple and commendably brief. The installation script downloads all of the necessary libraries and code to build the driver, and installs it in kernel space. The run time on my (aged) laptop is about 15 minutes, the compilation phase takes several minutes so be patient. Once complete, I didn't even need to reboot, after a minute or so I could see two wireless network interfaces in Wi-Fi Settings. These are the two network interfaces of the AC1L and they both work! I can choose either as the interface I want to use, and additionally the Aeroplane Mode function key of the Asus turns off both of them. The performance of the 5GHz is surprisingly good - bear in mind I am using USB-2 on a 10 year old laptop, your experience may vary. Finally, if you send your Amazon order number to [email protected], you get 30 months warranty on the product, rather than just 24 months. It doesn't get much better than this.

Lo uso con Debian 13 KDE su un vecchio mini PC DELL; perfettamente plug&play; prende benissimo banda 5GHz anche se il router è al piano di sotto. Consigliatisssimo.

compré otra marca que también decía que funcionaba y linux y lo tuve que develover. éste funcionó a la primera, instalando el driver que viene en las instrucciones. todo perfecto. (kernel 6.1). Se supone que para kernels > 6.2 es plug and play. Funciona perfecto para lo que necesitaba (aumentar velocidad/capacidad de transmisión para servidor plex, conectado a TV via wifi en diferente planta de una casa. ahora no hay lagging ni desconexiones. 5GHz ok. recomiendo 100%