Having bought a motherboard with no wireless functionality I ended up having to get one of these. For the most part it's worked really well. Transfer speeds are very much dependent on signal; Windows let's you know if the signal is poor - I found using a USB extension cable and placing it elsewhere improved things (being on the other side of the house to the router). We get a 15Mbit connection, which is about 1.5MB/s throughput, which I've been able to pull pretty easily. The dongle has worked flawlessly on 32-bit Windows 7 for ages - however, I recently upgraded to 64-bit Windows 7 and for some reason I've been having to remove and reinsert the ...  Read the complete review

I was given this as a gift from my Uncle who no longer needed it anymore, as after 2 years of our family arguing who gets to have the modem connected to their computer, we would finally be able to each have it on at the same time (no one ever did purchase one of these useful little gadgets either, weird!). It can be purchased for about £10 online, and although it is one of the cheaper models out there, it does a great job - even better than some of the more expensive models! The design of this is almost similar to a USB stick, as it has the USB connector and although it is longer than a USB device, it is still pretty slim and lightweight. It comes in white, ...  Read the complete review