The netgear would drop packets periodically, even with it's strong signal and stability, this caused terrible lag in games and made it unusable for me.

THE INTERMITTENT LAG SPIKES WERE PISSING ME OFF.

Horrible lag spikes.

or so this card would give me a lag spike that would freeze my game for about a half second

I was impressed with how little degradation of signal there is - no noticeable lag or ping increase, no slowing of download speed.

No problems at all, excellent signal and no lag in gaming

This causes issues installing, as well as if you are tech savy enough to install it via drivers

Works as it described

Easily installed and still working fine as of summer 2014.

It's being severely bottlenecked by my internet speed, but it's going as fast as it can with low ping

Terrible 5G reception

It just refuses to use 5G and refuses to get full speed of 11n.

So I have to disable 2.4G on driver to force it to connect to 11ac

Weak signal strength, 5g none existent all in all not worth the money

I believe it is also backward compatible with the other ones as well (802.11n, 802.11g, 802.11b. and 802.11a).

At the same time I got my ISP to upgrade my classic 802.11g router to something more modern

This adapter seems to be working about as well as the old G adapter (that my connection speed only reads 54 Mbps may be due to the gateway as much as the card - and Uverse caps speed well below that anyway), so I'm happy with it.

The signal is not stable for 5G

When being used with a Win 10 PC the 5G does not work but the 2.4G works fine