Gift Guide: Airlink101 High Speed Wireless N USB Adapter for Under $50

If your home network of computers is anything like ours, it's a comically mixed bag of laptops and desktops of vintages spanning almost a decade. Without going into too much tech talk, this means that our busted ol' laptop rocking an 802.11B Wi-Fi card prevents our potentially rocket-fast 802.11n-equipped laptop from ever reaching those wireless speeds. (That's just how Wi-Fi routers work -- catering to the lowest common denominator.) Airlink101's AWLL6075 is a penny-sized USB adapter that works with most any Windows PC or Intel Mac, and enables your hoopty machines to get in the fast lane, making everyone on your whole network benefit as well. It purportedly gets up to 300 Mbps download, 150 upload -- faster than a lot of cheapo adapters out there (though that may be limited by other factors on your network). We can't think of a more potently useful bit of tech anywhere near this price.

Airlink101.com
Price: $15.99

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