A device that adds wireless connectivity to a laptop or desktop computer. All of the adapters below are available as external USB modules as well as PCI or PCI Express (PCIe) cards that plug into ...

And in limited cases, a laptop’s internal antennas are just awful; an external Wi-Fi adapter can make a weak connection usable. We looked for Wi-Fi 5 and Wi-Fi 6/6E (also known as 802.11ac and ...

much faster than the Wi-Fi that currently lives in your laptop. The adapter runs on the 2.4GHz, 5GHz and 6GHz bands for maximum compatibility, and it automatically detects the best band to connect ...