With an extensive, hands-on background in deploying and managing Microsoft Windows infrastructures and networking, she was included in Black Enterprises 20 Black Women in Tech You Need to Follow on Twitter, and received the 2013 Small Business Influencer Top 100 Champions award.We may earn affiliate commissions from buying links, which help support our testing.The adapter offered little wireless performance benefit over using my laptops native Intel Centrino 3x3 wireless on-board adapter, except, of course, in 802.11ac mode, since my adapter supports up to 802.11n.Its just a little over an inch and a half long and a smidgen over half an inch wide.
While the small size makes it super portable, the miniscule form factor means its easy to lose. I dont count that against it in the score, but its something to be aware of if youre the type whose stuff tends to go missing. The AE6000 supports WEP 64128-bit, WPA-TKIP and WPA2-Personal Enterprise (AESTKIP), as well as WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup). A Linksys rep said this was because the product was already in production when the Linksys-Belkin deal went down. Linksys Ae6000 License Agreement AndYou accept the license agreement and then instructed to connect the adapter to a USB port. A list of wireless networks in range appears and you can connect on-the-spot. A clickable link within the interface allows you to use Wi-Fi protected setup to connect. This inferior performance was consistent whether I connected at 2.4 or the 5 GHz band in Mixed legacy or 802.11n-only mode. My laptops throughput against the tiny USB adapters: 109 Mbps from 15 feet versus Linksyss 83 Mbps. Still, I was surprised by how different throughput is between the two in testing. Of course, my laptops adapter only supports 802.11n so I dont have a comparable test using the laptops built-in adapter. It gave the second highest-performance in 11ac mode over any other adapter except for the stellar Edimax AC1200 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter. At 15 feet away, Linksyss little USB adapter cranked out a very good 129 Mbps in 11ac mode. However, Edimaxs adapter managed 186 Mbps at the same distance in 11ac mode, and was superior in other modes too. For instance, the Linksys adapter in 5 GHz, 802.11n mode as mentioned, clocked 71 Mbps, while the Edimax blazed at 126 Mbps. You can flip back and forth between the two depending at what standard you want to use to connect. For example, if connecting to 802.11n you use the built-in adapter, and, if trying to connect at 802.11ac, you connect the Linksys adapter to the USB port and disable the built-in adapter. For that, the Wireless Mini USB Adapter AC 580 Dual Band (AE6000) earns three out of five stars. She has a Bachelors degree from Brooklyn College, several technology certifications, and she was a tech editor for the CRN Test Center.
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