Smallest USB Wifi adapter

[evoreaper]

For some reason my Late 2008 MBP no longer let's me use airport, bluetooth or iSight. MCC (Nearest Apple store/reseller) have said the entire display needs replacing at a cost of £500 plus labour. The bluetooth and isight I'm not too bothered about as I never use them, but as you can imagine the wifi is an issue.

I'm planning on getting a usb wifi adapter but I'd like the smallest one possible so preferably I don't even have to take it out of my macbook, but I'm struggling to find one that im 100% is mac compatible.

Something like this : D Link DWA 121 seems perfect but is apparently not Mac compatible.


Any ideas?

Cheers guys!

 

[BreakGuy]

The TRENDnet 150Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter is about as small as I could find that supports a/b/g/n networks. It is limited to 150Mbps, but it does support Mac OS.

The TRENDnet 300Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter gets speeds up to 300Mbps, but unfortunately it does not state it supports Mac OS.

 

[PerformaGuy]

For some reason my Late 2008 MBP no longer let's me use airport, bluetooth or iSight. MCC (Nearest Apple store/reseller) have said the entire display needs replacing at a cost of £500 plus labour. The bluetooth and isight I'm not too bothered about as I never use them, but as you can imagine the wifi is an issue.

I'm planning on getting a usb wifi adapter but I'd like the smallest one possible so preferably I don't even have to take it out of my macbook, but I'm struggling to find one that im 100% is mac compatible.

Something like this : D Link DWA 121 seems perfect but is apparently not Mac compatible.


Any ideas?

Cheers guys!

Bearextender might just what you are looking for. It's a made for mac high power wifi adapter: http://store.bearextender.com/products/bearextender-mini

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

The TRENDnet 150Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter is about as small as I could find that supports a/b/g/n networks. It is limited to 150Mbps, but it does support Mac OS.

The TRENDnet 300Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter gets speeds up to 300Mbps, but unfortunately it does not state it supports Mac OS.

Many WLAN adapters use Ralink or Realtek chipsets, which are (Mac) OS X compatible:
http://www.mediatek.com/_en/07_downloads/01_windows.php?sn=502
and
http://www.realtek.com/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=21&Level=4&Conn=3

 

[Obibob]

dwa-121

hi i got my dwa-121 working with a combination of dwa-121 for mac & realtek ieee802.11b/g/n for mac

 

[Rendergroup]

Buy this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007GFX0PY/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Works out of the box!

 

[Mr. Retrofire]

@Rendergroup: This is a BT 4.0 adapter, not a WLAN (WiFi) adapter.