Airlink101 Awll5088 Adapter Review

Today it is very hard to find a modern laptop which is not equipped with a built-in Wi-Fi adapter. But most manufacturers do not seek to move from slow 802.11g standard to a much faster 802.11n, which provides data transfer speeds up to 150 Mbitsec.  Nowadays we are increasingly confronted with the need to download huge files from a network, watch videos in HD quality from a remote network drive or play modern videogames, demanding high speed bandwidth network connection. In these cases, we start thinking about how to increase the speed of wi-fi?  There is a perfect way out – AirLink101 AWLL5088 Wireless N 150 Ultra Mini USB Adapter.

It is one of the most compact wireless capable USB adapter you will find. Its small size is ideal for your laptop, so it can never be removed according to the risk of being broken. In AirLink101 AWLL5088 adapter antenna type PIFA is used. Such type of antennas in addition to compact size has a wide band of operating frequencies and multi-band support. It means, that despite the compactness of the device you will always have the steady signal.

In order to protect your personal data and confidential information AirLink101 AWLL5088 uses encryption protocols (WEP 64/128-bit, WPA2, WPA-PSK, and 802.1x) when connecting to secure wireless networks and guarantees the security of the traffic.

The only problem you’ll have to meet with is the driver for the adapter. The solution is to download driver for the 802.11b/g/n Single Chip from RealTek’s website, as AirLink101 AWLL5088 uses the RealTek chipset.

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