
Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with Win 8.1 and a wifi card already in it from the factory as usual not strong enough.While on your home network NetGear genie app allows you anywhere-in-the-house access to all the cool features on your router without having to boot up your computer: Wireless Settings, Network Map.Professional business Wi-Fi with centralized management. My signal strength was also significantly strengthened. By using the A7000 & by-passing the Wi-Fi card, my Mbps downloads have been consistently 165 to 175 Mbps. With “n” I was getting 50 to 60 Mbps at best. I purchased the Netgear A7000 so I could by-pass my computer Wi-FI card & use Wi-Fi 5 802.11ac instead of Wi-Fi 4 802.11n.The problem is that it says it's connected with SaranshB16 seconds agoReplyOk I understood your problem, I was having the sane problem as my laptop was not connecting to my wifi but on other. My laptop has always connected to every other WiFi signals and still does, just not my house signal.Before I bought the A7000 I was using an Edimax AC600 Dual Band mini usb Adapter(WORKS PERFECTLY). I purchased an A7000 wifi Adapter to take advantage of my new internet speeds. I recently moved and have a 1gb connection setup at my new place with Xfinity.The PCE-AC88 looks better on paper, connected at slightly higher link rate to the RT-AC5300 (1.5Gbps vs 1.3Gbps) but in reality it has not and does not perform any better than the older PCE-AC68. I have FIOS gigabit connection and also have both PCE-AC88 and PCE-AC68, connecting to Asus RT-AC5300 and Netgear R7000 about 12ft away.
