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   Kevin Greene on February 14, 2015 at 2:09 pm

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   Good little Wifi Adapter, March 11, 2013

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   Kevin Greene (Suffolk, Virginia) –

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   This review is from: Edimax EW-7811Un 150Mbps 11n Wi-Fi USB Adapter, Nano Size Lets You Plug it and Forget it, Ideal for Raspberry Pi, Supports Windows, Mac OS, Linux (Personal Computers)

   I purchased this to add wireless connectivity to my Raspberry Pi running OpenELEC. My intention was to have the Pi sit in my second floor bedroom and stream media (movies and music mostly) from the HTPC running XBMC downstairs.

   Upon plugging it in, I went to the settings screen in OpenELEC and entered in my wireless networking information. I rebooted for good measure and went to system information and found that it had no IP address. After verifying my wireless settings and rebooting once more, I still wasn’t connected.

   I tried a boatload of things, including installing RaspBian, RaspBMC, different versions of OpenELEC, various command line voodoo, disabling Wifi authentication, etc. None of this worked until I used a powered USB hub, and then it connected automagically. I was simultaneously relieved and frustrated when it worked. Relieved because it finally worked, frustrated because I spent so much time with it.

   Now, several people have said that this doesn’t need a powered hub for the Pi- which is actually why I bought it. My personal experience was that it did. I have seen things from other people about having to change their power supply to make Wifi adapters work on the pi – I didn’t have another to use. Just keep that in mind that if you have trouble, try a powered USB hub before you tear your hair out.

   With the Wifi now running properly, I took the Pi to my upstairs bedroom and set it up. I had previously verified that 1080p movies on the wired LAN ran without jitter or buffering. Playing with it on wireless, I found that I had to set my video streams to transcode to 1mbps 720p in order to stream without buffering. I was just happy that it was working, so I was OK with the quality drop.

   If you are looking to stream high quality media over this I would suggest one of the other 300mbps or even 450mbps adapters available online. If you are just looking for a cheap, low-profile wireless adapter for web browsing, this should function perfectly.

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   Valentina on February 14, 2015 at 2:48 pm

   133 of 143 people found the following review helpful

   
   great little product for price!, March 16, 2013

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   This review is from: Edimax EW-7811Un 150Mbps 11n Wi-Fi USB Adapter, Nano Size Lets You Plug it and Forget it, Ideal for Raspberry Pi, Supports Windows, Mac OS, Linux (Personal Computers)

   I was amazed at how tiny it is! About the width of my little finger pad and not longer than the first either! I used this for my mom’s Sony internet TV , which was having trouble connecting to Netflix and the internet was running rather slow. As soon as I plugged it in, I went to internet settings and the thing picked up our WiFI from a different room immediately! Internet and Netflix 10 times faster than it was! Extremely happy with the delivery time too. I was originally told I would have to wait ’til April to get it; I received it 3/14! Awesome!

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   Brian on February 14, 2015 at 3:33 pm

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   Finally good reception!!, January 2, 2012

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   Brian –

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   We’ve struggled in our home trying to find those isolated locations where our new little Toshiba Netbook (NB-305 model)would be able to make a decent connection to our Linksys wireless-G, 2.4GHz broadband router. Basically, if we didn’t have a direct line of sight to the router we’d have signal trouble often resulting in disconnection from the internet. We just received and plugged this new Edimax into the USB port and within one minute found that we now have good reception (5 bars) from almost anywhere in our two story house. I even went outside down to the water’s edge (30 ft from house) and still had full signal. Perhaps now my wife will join me fishing this summer if she’s able to shop Amazon from the canoe while I fish! (Strike that — it’s probably not such a good idea.) Our netbook also gave us very limited usage in public venues such as coffee houses due to weak reception. We’d have to sit very close to the router to get a good signal. Looking forward to trying out the Edimax in some of these public facilities very soon.

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