Best External USB wifi adapter/range booster

[stylinexpat]

Anyone here use a USB Wifi and get better range and speed.?
Is there an USB Wifi adapte that anyone has tried which shows huge gains over built in wifi on MacBook Pro?
I saw this review online.

I read this article online.

https://expertvagabond.com/wifi-antenna-booster/

 

[Audit13]

Which model Macbook do you have?

I have an early 2015 air and I get 300 to 500 Mbps at home on speedtest.net depending on the time of the day and how many other subscribers are online. I have a 500 Mbps cable internet connection.

 

[stylinexpat]

Which model Macbook do you have?

I have an early 2015 air and I get 300 to 500 Mbps at home on speedtest.net depending on the time of the day and how many other subscribers are online. I have a 500 Mbps cable internet connection.

Have the latest 13” MBP. I want to know if thee is something with better range that picks up more wifi options and has faster data transfer

 

[Audit13]

The latest Macbook already has an excellent wifi card.

To get better range, you may need to limit the MacBook to 2.4 GHz which will limit download speed.

To increase download speed, you'd need to connect to a wireless ac router or ac access point at 5 GHz.

To pick up more WiFi networks, you'd need to go with a usb ac adapter with multiple antennae.

 

[stylinexpat]

The latest Macbook already has an excellent wifi card.

To get better range, you may need to limit the MacBook to 2.4 GHz which will limit download speed.

To increase download speed, you'd need to connect to a wireless ac router or ac access point at 5 GHz.

To pick up more WiFi networks, you'd need to go with a usb ac adapter with multiple antennae.

I am wondering if there is an aftermarket external one that could be bought which someone here may have bought and tested which gives huge performance increases over the stock built in wifi

 

[Audit13]

To get really high speed, you would need at least a usb 3 dongle with Mac drivers.

What speed networks will you be connecting to?

The article is kind of misleading because the article talks about usb wifi adapters, not antenna boosters other than a range extender and car wifi antenna at the end of the article.

 

[stylinexpat]

To get really high speed, you would need at least a usb 3 dongle with Mac drivers.

What speed networks will you be connecting to?

The article is kind of misleading because the article is talks about usb wifi adapters, not boosters.

Do you know of any great USB 3 dongles which have significant range and performance gains over the stock built in wifi?

 

[Audit13]

I've never tried a usb dongle because I haven't been in a situation where I really needed it. If there are no decent WiFi networks and me and I need my MacBook on the internet, I turn on my iPhone hot spot.

 

[campyguy]

IMHO Edimax has offered some of the better Mac-compatible USB dongles for wifi in recent years. I'm going to concur with others here relating that you're likely going to have a hard time with getting better throughput than the built-in hardware. In my home office, there's my iMP and two newer rMBPs connecting to my network. My wireless router is a Synology RT2600AC - that's what my two employees connect to wirelessly (no Ethernet in this rented house) and I connect to via Ethernet - with a half-gig connection, each workstation sees maybe 400-420 down using the DSLReports at around 50-70 feet from the Synology router through 1970's-era construction.

If I needed more/bigger/better throughput via wireless at the two rMBPs I'd buy better antennas for my wireless router before investing in a USB dongle. My 2¢.