Workstations manufactured in the 1990s and early 2000s, before Wi-Fi became prevalent, often lack wireless networking cards or adapters that enable a computer to detect and interpret Wi-Fi signals.

USB wireless adapters for laptops offer a means of connecting your laptop to the internet when the laptop itself does not have an internal Wi-Fi connection or the existing internal hardware is broken.

As far as technology goes, Linksys has a sure winner with MU-MIMO and Beamforming baked into a small form factor solution in the WUSB6100M. With 802.11ac now getting a solid foothold in the market, ...