Netis WF2150 N600 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter Review

Testing & Methodology

Testing the wireless performance is a pretty straight forward job for which I will be using Passmark’s PerformanceTest8 and its built-in Advanced Network Test. The benchmarks will be done with both static packages with a size of 16384 Bytes and variable package with a size ranging from 32 Bytes up to 16384 Bytes.

I will also adjust the distance between the test system and the access point that it is connected to. I will place it at three different locations and run all benchmarks each place. The first test will be run in a co-location with less than a meter distance between the two, the second is about 10 meters while the third round of tests will be performed at about 25-meters distance.

That should give a good impression on the entire list of capabilities, performance, and range abilities. While it’s easy to test wired connections in a controlled environment, we need to keep in mind that environmental factors can’t be avoided with the wireless signals and that there might be variations to other scenarios.

Hardware

• Supermicro C7Z97-OCE
• Intel Xeon E3-1230Lv3
• Corsair Vengeance 16GB 1866MHz
• Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD
• Sapphire R7 240 2GB
• be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W
• Thermaltake Water 3.0 Performer
• Netgear ProSafe WNDAP360-100UKS
• Netgear ProSafe GS74TPS

Software

• Passmark PerformanceTest 8: Advanced Network Test