Nope, that's part of what I meant in saying that a normal person had little or no chance of succeeding at such a thing and, again, even were you to succeed at it, there're still two kinds of performance issues as I noted. One of he things I notice doing ebay searches on 'tenda usb' is that there's a wide range of performances in such devics, 130mbs - 300+ mbs and the price difference is negligable.
Actually, that was pretty “normal” for configuring a new Device in Linux. Considering what you COULD do in Linux, fairly easy to follow as well...
It sounds like you found a solution that works for you though. Kudos.