Since its introduction there has been something of an internal battle with wireless. On the one hand it is very convenient; you just connect to an access point and you have freedom as long as you are inside the network rand. On the other the speed is not always that great and, if the signal is too weak, you can end up dropping packets, files and losing data. Over the years there have been great improvements in wireless speed, but no matter what it has never been able to match the speed of a wired connection. At least it could not until 802.11ac wireless arrived on the scene. This new specification offers a theoretical limit of 1.3Gbps over a 5GHz wireless connection. We have already taken a look at a router and USB 2.0 adapter, now we are going to look at what happens when you put USB 3.0 into the mix with the TRENDNet TEW-805UB adapter.
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The Box and Goodies -
The box is fairly typical of what TRENDNet uses for their products. The more advanced ones have their orange background and you always get a good picture of whatever is inside. In this case the TEW-805UB adapter. You also get a QRC code that gives you access to more information and instructions about the TEW-805UB (a more and more common practice).
The back has the normal diagram and information about how the TEW-805UB fit into your network.
Inside there is everything you need to get started; the TEW-805UB adapter, a quick start guide and an installation CD-ROM. Well we should clarify, you have everything you need if you are running Windows 7 or earlier. For you Windows 8 guys you will have to hit up TRENDNet’s website and grab some more recent drivers to get things going.
