I'm planning to buy a WiFi 5Ghz USB adapter, but I don't know which one is truly plug and play.
Edit: By truly plug-and-play, I mean using the adapter without a driver taken from a website (and manually download it) or from a CD.
The target system is Windows 7, whatever version it can be.
Do anyone know if such WiFi adapters exists ?
Last edited by Crosslink; 20 Aug 2015 at 13:05.
I plan to buy from there but I can't know if those adapters are trully plug-and-play with Windows 7.
By trully plug-and-play I mean without installing any drivers from a CD or downloading them from a website.
The problem is, the page products says nothing about that.
Pretty much all of them will automatically install drivers for Win 7 from the internet. It's not clear to me if your issue is that you don't want them to need to download a driver at all or that you don't want to have to go to a website and manually download a driver.
I see. So I don't want them to download a driver from the internet with an OEM proprietary tool, but also not want to go to a website and manually download a driver.
In other words, the only case from the internet that can be ok is from Windows Update, but I prefer not.
For the example, the only truest plug-and-play WiFi adapter known to me is the Intel WifiLink 5100 (no OEM Tool/manual internet download, no CD and no Windows Update).
I'm searching the same thing but unfortunately, it's not a USB adapter.
Last edited by Crosslink; 20 Aug 2015 at 18:27.
The problem is I don't have admin rights on the laptops I'm using.
Since my company's starting to switch their "old" hotspots to 5Ghz WiFi, I sometimes really can't work at all.
In that case, wouldn't it be the company's obligation and responsibility to update the laptops?
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