For this review I will be looking at something that I must confess is a first for me. That is a piece of networking equipment in the shape of a Wireless nLite High Gain USB WiFi Adapter from Edimax or the EW-7711UAN to give it its part number.

Before moving onto the Wifi adapter here is some info on Edimax, taken from their website.

Edimax Technology is dedicated to the design, development, manufacturing and marketing of a broad range of networking solutions. Since Edimax was founded in Taiwan in 1986, the company has grown to be amongst Asia's leading manufacturers of advanced network communication products. Edimax’s headquarters’ are in Taipei County, Taiwan, Republic of China. The company's revenue reached US $78 million and its current workforce counts over 750 employees worldwide. Edimax's has subsidiaries in the USA, China and Europe along with branch offices in Miami, San Jose, Beijing, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Poland, Romania and most recently, France and Russia. Currently, Edimax serves over 70 countries via our worldwide distribution channels. Our successful growth lies in an established and continuously expanding partner channel network. Through our international distribution centres in Taiwan, San Jose, Miami and the Netherlands, we can offer logistic services and ensure a timely customer delivery and excellent RMA support worldwide.

With over 20 years experience in the networking industry we are committed to bringing the advantages of the latest networking technologies to the PC user by offering the best price-performance products and solutions. Our products not only cater the needs of the SOHO and SME market, but also enable service providers to fully exploit business opportunities with other communication technologies. Through continual efforts in technology innovation, customer satisfaction and market developments, Edimax has proven to be a service and customer-oriented partner in networking.

Edimax's Taiwan and China based engineering team accounts for over 20% of our worldwide staff. Their solid background and professional experience have contributed to our success in developing products to continuously meet market demands. Each year, we increase our investment in R&D to strengthen the capability to develop innovative products for today's dynamic and fast-paced networking industry. All Edimax's products are CE, FCC and C-Tick emission certified and driver compatibility tests are being performed by Microsoft, Novell and NSTL. In 2003, the company was ISO 9001 and ISO 14000 certified, further ensuring the highest quality of products and services. Edimax has additionally entered in strategic partnerships with several chipset vendors and participates among others in the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance.

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