Meanwhile, I have to mini-Fi sticks a slightly more nuanced opinion. When first I had the TL-WN823N order and consistently achieved only bad transmission / reception performance at the beginning, in addition, the connection is usually completely collapsed. Shortly thereafter, I have regardless of this USB stick from CSL 300MBit (mini) bought .. The built chips are identical, and probably the entire interior design (can be the size of the suspect). The power was minimal at CSL Mini better than the TP-MINI, which probably has to do with the plastic envelope / external form.
The mini wireless USBs come seemingly not with the people clearly if he sits between transmitter and receiver. On my laptop that is somewhat problematic, because I can connect USBs just left and right, thus rumfuchtle least with his hand in the immediate vicinity and often completely sit between. The WLAN performance crashes then quickly together, from 50 MBit to less than 5MBit. Can we rule out this problem for itself, the sticks are reasonably okay and the theoretical transmission power every now and then at 300Mbps .. The actual transmission power but never came over 50MBit.
For additional wireless router stability, I reduced the RTS + CTS 1500 (packet size). Beacon I also still on 300 and DTIM is set to 3, but is rather unimportant .. Short Preample + Short Slot is also enabled. Windows 7 shows me in connection often only 1Mbit with full bar, but the actual rate was always higher (if the connection is not broken by me as a bluff body together). I tested it with always 40 MHz.
- Tested with DLink DIR-600 Router
- Meanwhile, in use with Trendnet 692GR, router
- Built-up chip: RTL8192CU, 2x2
- TP-Link TL-WN823N 300Mbps N and CSL are seemingly identical (same chip + driver)
So much for the review.
The mini-sticks have for me too little power, or is my connection to unstable. To use my 50MBit Internet completely wireless, I have now but the internal PCIe card changed on Ebay gabs for less than 10 euros. By internal antennas I can do so 100-120MBit actual transmitting / receiving performance! Far too much effort for such a small detail. ;)
