Recommend a WLAN USB adapter

Hi, can someone recommend a wlan USB adapter which supports 802.11n and has at least 2 antennas for 2x2:2 MIMO? It should also have open source / free software drivers (no ndiswrapper stuff). I already have an integrated wlan card, but it only has 1 antenna, so the speed is only 40-50 Mbps which is too slow. For reference, here's (a Finnish) website listing some suitable wlan adapters, but I don't know whether or not they work well and quickly on Linux. It's difficult to find information whether or not those cards support fast speeds and multiple antennas online. I don't want to buy an wlan adapter and find out it's just as fast as my integrated one.

I bought TP-Link 821N, and the network connection hangs/stops working after 1-2 minutes of torrent download. I can fix the connection only by rebooting. By "connection hangs" I mean that connection completely stops working.
The speed tests showed 60 Mbps though, which is pretty good. I'm using linux 3.2.13-1. The wlan adapter uses ath9k_htc, not ath5k as suggested earlier. Should I try ath5k? ath9k_htc is for 802.11n according to the wiki.

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