UPDATE: After about a month of daily use, I'm seeing random lag spikes of 100 ms to 2 seconds. This doesn't affect normal web browsing, downloads or watching Youtube, but it's highly obnoxious when using Teamviewer or audio/video chats. This is not an issue with my router or interference, since other devices on my network don't experience it. It's not my laptop or its OS either, since if I switch back to the internal wifi card, this issue disappears (but then I get random disconnects every half hour or so again, which is why I got a USB wifi adapter in the first place). I'm docking a star because of this issue, but it's still usable so I'm continuing to use it.---I just got the A7000 to replace a previous-model A6200 that was starting to fail. These are my initial impressions on unpacking and installing it. I'll try to come back in some months and update this with how it does long-term.Right off the bat, it's really big and chunky. If you're looking for a little wifi adapter to drop in your travel bag along with your ultra-slim laptop, this is not the one you want. However its size gives me some hope for its longevity. Fast wifi adapters with good range always get hot, just from the transmit power and processing involved in it. Being larger means this heat is spread out over a larger area, so it hopefully won't run hot enough to damage itself over time.Installation was easy on my Windows 10 x64. I plugged it in first despite what the sticker on the baggie it was sealed in said. Windows failed to find any driver for it automatically, so I went to their website and downloaded the latest driver package for Windows, currently 1.0.0.15. Inside the zip, there are two installers, one with the complete accessory software, and one "standalone" one that's (supposedly) just the drivers. The Windows 10 wifi network selector has always worked fine for me, so I went with the standalone one. It took less than a minute to install, and when it was done I could pick a network to connect to the usual way in the notification tray....I said the standalone package is supposedly just the driver because the standalone and full installers are almost exactly the same size, 54 MB. After installation, there's 23 MB of stuff installed in C:\Program Files (x86)\NETGEAR\A7000. I'm not sure if I'd have more installed there if I'd chosen the complete package, but I assume so because the installer is much larger than what it installed. I'd guess the standalone one contains all the same files, but just with some of them set to not be installed. A strange decision, but whatever, it works.To test its speed, I copied a very large file from a shared folder on my NAS over 5 GHz wifi, since that's my usual use case for a home network that's faster than my internet connection. It copied at a whopping 70 MB/s! On further use I'm seeing between 60-85. That's megabytes, not megabits. That translates to 480-680 mbps. Yes, that is considerably less than the advertised "up to 1300 mbps", but that's a theoretical maximum under laboratory conditions with zero interference. 480-680 mbps under real world conditions, with a bunch of neighbors' networks visible, is dang impressive.