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Any experience with these unbranded eBay wifi adapters for PC's? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm interested in getting this unbranded 802.11ax wifi adapter off of eBay to insert into my PC.

Some background is that I am looking to move house (I live in Australia), and planning to just use my 5g phone's hotspot for WiFi. I don't expect to get much more than 50mbps speeds, maybe above 100 on a good day.

Would this be adequate?

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/284588196094?hash=item4242c740fe:g:CP0AAOSwPZlhyVVY&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4NZrnVZLQ9gCymVQPPFXx0I%2BKULOqeLUFYu3ZK14z%2BVop2f8jtsZ%2FPA1nT3MIUdDCqSt%2BNAehVrt3BFRVShETyirG0H9Q9sd1iB39mxOEccf0gv1w%2BH%2BzIU%2FfKQqBBXi4lnGOvrPzxsFtOeIWg%2FSxptSkIubpdJbJtpRU0anHrFCrK5%2BufhXOZKuQk0cpw0Jt7d0X6ibxjqG6vfUVJNmgV7j%2BpijDwELwbeBPymKGNpovM0pzBFYX04iSWjQJgo9KIfE%2BRz0eFx001xTwRK9FkI0Q5fjLJg3zLIKDFokWrcH%7Ctkp%3ABFBMmJrIo4Fj

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

The adapter found in the link contains a MediaTek MT7921K which should work just fine for those speeds.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

You don't need ax for those kinds of speeds. An ac dongle, or even n if you don't have much interference around (assumedly so as you're in a house), would do just fine. Of course it wouldn't hurt