Ordered for use with Fluke Airmagnet Analyzer and Omnipeek.DLink changed the chipset to Ralink 5572, so hardware version is now incompatible with both products.

This leaves you with the Ralink drivers which are source downloadable from Ralink's website, but they're kind of buggy. If you fiddle with them it's possible to get improvement, but getting them to compile and install on 12.04.1 Ubuntu seemed leave them in a state where they drop connections...

It's not like the hardware is horrible..

On Linux if you get the B2 revision of this device it will use an RT5572 chipset; which is not supported (to my knoweldge) by Kernel drivers listed on wireless.kernel.org as of 11/2012

It has been more than 6 months since purchasing the D-link DWA-160 usb adapter. The product worked fine all this time. So I never gave it a second thought that it would stop working. I came back home from the store to find my internet connection disconnected.

Features; Quiet; Performance

Design

i have a dlink dir-655 router . i just bought this wifi stick...because i thought it would be better than my cisco adpater....much worse....brought my signal to 2 bars and 39 mbps...i was at 144mbps before using this other adapter. returning it tomorrow!

With built-in Wi-Fi now a regular feature of the latest PCs and notebooks, the role of the humble USB adapter is somewhat diminishing. However, with the expansion of 802.11 draft-n Wi-Fi into homes over both 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands, chances are your computer isn't transferring files at the fastest...

Dual band operation; detailed Wireless Connection Manager

Large; poorly implemented WPS; relatively poor speeds; no Mac OS X support

Works prima without fuss, quick and easy installation. 'm Very happy with everything except the price. Fungerar prima utan krångel, snabb och enkel installation. Är jättenöjd med allt förutom priset.

Have had thid for about 6 weeks and is very easy to install

i am happy with this

this beast squeezed 144 mbps out of a router that can only do 100 and from 100(more like 96) feet too this is good

it broke by usb port by the process of overvolting and i dont know how (it probably wasn't the card

I would have expected better coverage from a device this expensive...

Upgraded to Win 10 from Win 7 and the adapter wasn't recognized at first. Removed it as a device, then physically disconnected it, then reconnected and Win 10 discovered it automatically. Works fine again now. Seems reliable. Had it 4 years now.