With a 10-meters-away RT-AC68u (3-stream 802.11ac) router running 384.4 Merlin firmware, my Edimax 7833uac USB WiFi network adapter ($35 dollars or so) connects at 1.3 gigabits per second nominal link rate on a 5 gigahertz channel. Connection strength on Linux reads "100%." The older Edimax...
