The disadvantage of a USB wifi adapter is that you might find yourself bumped offline should your system go to sleep. Additionally, USB wifi adapters can be hit and miss with their performance. They generally tend to work better than USB adapters—the tiny ones, at least—giving you more stable connections across longer distances and better throughput.
Offload your wireless adapter elsewhere so you have plenty of space for that flash drive, gaming mouse, or humping dog. Some might even come with external antennas that connect to the rear of your motherboard and allow you to position them wherever you want like on your desk , rather than having them shoot directly out the back of your desktop PC. If your Windows PC has never used a wireless network before then there will probably be a number of steps that you need to go through to use your USB WiFi adapter for Internet connectivity.
If your ISP is installing your wireless router for you then tell them where your computers and other devices are located in your home or office so that they can set it up in the best position. Once your wireless router is working and you have tested it using a device that already has wireless connectivity e.
I will cover the installation of drivers and other setup requirements in another section so I am assuming here that your USB WiFi adapter is ready to go at this point. If you do not see a wireless network there then you will need to create one. Once the wireless network is up and running your USB WiFi adapter will go to work looking for available wireless routers. Yours should have a unique name so that you can easily find it.
If you live in an apartment building there might be many different wireless networks routers detected by your USB adapter so be sure to know what the name of yours is. This is just a fancy name for a password that was used to set up your wireless router. If your ISP did this for you then they will supply you with this password. Enter this correctly and you will establish a connection with your wireless router.
If you are not prompted to enter an SSID or password then this probably means that your wireless network is not secure. Ask your ISP for help with this if you need it. All wireless adapters require additional software to make them work properly. When you are choosing a USB WiFi adapter for your computer be sure to check what versions of Windows it will work with so that you can avoid any setup problems.
In the case where you do not have a driver CD then I strongly recommend that you look for the right drivers online and then download them using another computer. As soon as you plug in your USB WiFi adapter Windows should detect it and then try to automatically install the right drivers for the device. Next, we look for the adapter driver in the list, going to network adapters. There we get a list of the driver we are looking for. We click with the right button on it, and one of the options is to update.
We select this option, and we update it automatically. So we wait for Windows 10 to offer us the update. If instead, you have Windows 7 as an operating system, the system is somewhat different. In this case, you have to follow these steps:. The USB ports of the computer end up suffering from the continued use we give them. Therefore, they may fail at some time. So it is essential that we test the adapter on all USB ports that our computer has. Since it may be that the problem has its origin in something as simple as a port that does not work correctly.
If after trying another USB port it works, then perfect, we have already found the source of the problem. In the case that it does not work, we know at least that the USB ports of the computer do not have any faults.
So we have to keep looking for solutions to this problem. A large part of the energy consumption in your computer is dedicated to the USB ports and the devices connected to them. Therefore, in an attempt to reduce this consumption, Windows uses some options of energy saving that cause that USB port is out of use. So we have to check that this has not happened and the WiFi adapter is not recognized by the computer for this reason.
What do we have to do? Both Windows 10 and 7 have to go to the control panel. There we go into hardware and sound. Inside we get an energy option, which we have to click.
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