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March 25, 2018 at 9:42 am #18225
I was looking on Amazon for a USB dongle. I found one (freepost) and purchased it.
Looking at my order I noticed it said for a Raspberry Pi. Does that mean it won’t work on my Dell?
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JohnMarch 25, 2018 at 10:01 am #18227They my be pointing out that its Raspberry Pi compatable or might be refering to something along these lines https://youtu.be/L4ItMxj47nU can you post a link to what you brought?
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March 25, 2018 at 10:03 am #18228March 25, 2018 at 10:13 am #18229Until the Rapberry Pi Model 3 Version B, Pi’s had no wifi ability this solved that. It should work on PC’s but according to them it will work on Pi’s
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March 25, 2018 at 10:17 am #18230Thanks
I hope it works on PC ,will have to wait & see
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JohnMarch 25, 2018 at 3:24 pm #18242It appears that many of these USB dongles do not need drivers or other software though others do. Does anyone know what decides how they ‘just work’ on different devices without user activity?
March 25, 2018 at 3:39 pm #18246I have had a TP-Link TL-WN 321G for years, only 54 Mbps but got me out of trouble in the past.
The newer version is a mini usb 300 Mbps and is half the price of the 321:
There is even an AC 600Mbps version, for £14.99.
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I'm out.March 25, 2018 at 4:05 pm #18249It appears that many of these USB dongles do not need drivers or other software though others do. Does anyone know what decides how they ‘just work’ on different devices without user activity?
Some will have the drivers built in to Windows. It’s down to the manufacturer as to if it’s supported without seperate drivers from the manufacturer.
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March 25, 2018 at 4:10 pm #18252Some of these chipsets have been around for many years. 2.4Ghz 802.11N is still good enough for most people and businesses.
March 25, 2018 at 5:16 pm #18260Its great the prices are falling dave. However like you said, I’m not rushing out to replace the slower N ones i have.
My router is N and it pushes around 60meg to all the newer phones, the older USB wifi dongles thr house pc’s have all get about 20. And I’ve long said if you can get above 10 down on any single device, you don’t need any more, Unless you know you do.
I dropped from 80 doen to 40down, and could tell the difference at all, maybe steam would take longer, bit that’s hardly a daily thing. I did end IP going back to thr 80 plan as the 40 plan was 40/1 where ad my 80 was 80/20. The sales person said it was 40/10 by mistake. Not their fault at that month it had changed from 10 to 1. The 1up was a pain, so i upgraded back to where i started.
JB the dongl3 should be fine.
March 25, 2018 at 5:18 pm #18261The Pi uses standard Broadcom kit so I’d anticipate no problems in rustling up a driver if required.
March 25, 2018 at 7:23 pm #18269Thanks sounds a good un, I think I went for it, for the number 802.11N. I am sure the one I use on rig 1 is the same number.
It was the for a Raspberry Pi that through me, thinking it was different yet the same number.
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