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Edimax Wi-Fi 4 802.11n Adapter for PC N150 Nano USB Adapter, 150Mbps, Smallest Wi-Fi 4 Dongle, Win 11 Plug-n-Play, Linux: Ubuntu/Mint Plug-n-Play for Kernel 5.15 and Above, Mac OS, EW-7811Un V2

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Worked great!

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2024

This dongle solved my problem with a non-Linux WiFi driver on my HP laptop. I just plugged it in and it immediately worked.

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Unstable Connection

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023

Attached to a Raspberry Pi B running the latest OS and a Cisco Enterprise Wireless Network (9136AX is the closest AP supported by a 9800-CL running IOS-XE 17.12.1 ) the connection consistently dropped and re-connected over and over again - suffering an effective 85% packet loss. I have 100 other wireless devices connected to the same network without issue - I also have an older USB WiFi adapter that works fine - I was just hoping to use a more compact adapter.

Easy to use in the sense that it is plug and play, but otherwise is unstable.

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Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2024

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This dongle solved my problem with a non-Linux WiFi driver on my HP laptop. I just plugged it in and it immediately worked.

Works immediately

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024

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Worked instantly with FreeBSD installer when I used it start of 2024 because no driver for Broadcom WiFi in that world.

Jonathan Harrison

Does the job, with a few quirks

Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024

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It's Linux compatible, I didn't have to do anything special to get it working with Garuda, but Linux Mint needed a kernel driver... fortunately I had a VM that I could patch one into under Windows and get it going, but once I changed to a more up-to-date (indeed, rolling) distro (Garuda) it wasn't necessary. Their website claims to only support up to Linux kernel 5.13 but that is inaccurate, as I'm running it with a 6.8.9 kernel currently.

Now let's talk about speed. AC1200 mathematically is more bandwidth than a USB 2.0 port will handle; those are limited to 480MBps. I don't know who made the decision to not go with USB 3.0 on this device but they need to have their heads examined. That being said, it works, though it could probably be a whole lot faster if it weren't designed by someone who can't do math. I'm currently connected to my WiFi router which is across the width (and through a wall) of the apartment at 175.6Mbps. Not exactly stellar, but it is what it is. I think we only have 400Mbps service anyway, so I guess that's good enough for me. My roommate needs some bandwidth, too, so yeah, it's fine.

Also, reliability (or lack thereof). Occasionally a couple of weeks ago (not so much lately) it would get hot and stop working. Unplugging, letting it cool for a minute, and replugging it resolved the issue. Maybe there's such a thing as "too small" and instead maybe a bit of bulk (and copper) would allow for better heat dissipation. But that would cost money, of course.

Overall, it's an acceptable product with just a couple of flaws. If they would address those, it would be perfect. As it stands, I would probably repurchase from their brand if I ever needed another one for another system, especially if I couldn't put a PCIe or m.2 card in, instead.

I can't say anything about their tech support as I'm an advanced user and don't care about calling tech support (I probably know more than they do so they would just frustrate me with their accent). So they'll get my default 3 stars because their website is adequate.

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Supports FreeBSD and ghostBSD out of the box

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2024

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So i just upgraded my old laptop from Windows 10 to ghostBSD. Think of ghostBSD as a half sister to the Apple Computer OS. A known issue with BSD is that not all network cards are supported. I plugged this dongle into a USB port. and checked my network icons. Poof it worked right out of the box!

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Unstable Connection

Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2023

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Attached to a Raspberry Pi B running the latest OS and a Cisco Enterprise Wireless Network (9136AX is the closest AP supported by a 9800-CL running IOS-XE 17.12.1 ) the connection consistently dropped and re-connected over and over again - suffering an effective 85% packet loss. I have 100 other wireless devices connected to the same network without issue - I also have an older USB WiFi adapter that works fine - I was just hoping to use a more compact adapter.

Easy to use in the sense that it is plug and play, but otherwise is unstable.

Don't expect to have an easy time getting this running if you are using a Linux machine

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2021

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TL;DR if you bought this for a Linux machine skip the official Edimax drivers (they are out of date and don't work) and do a search for "github lwfinger rtl8188eu". Follow the instructions on that site and reboot and you should have it up and running quickly.

I bought this because supposedly Edimax pushes drivers to the Linux kernel and was hoping for an easy plug and play device for my Ubuntu server machine. Not this one. Ok, fine, I'll just get the driver. Well, there are no instructions for obtaining the driver on Linux distributions. Helpfully, Windows and Mac instructions are included in the package but not Linux. However with some searching you can find and download the driver from Edimax' website. Once downloaded (there are still no instructions on the website either, the only way I found out how to install it was actually from Q/A here where Edimax states to first run "make" and then "sudo make install" in the directory after downloading. The drivers Edimax has hosted on their website are woefully out of date (from 2018 or so) and won't even compile on latest Linux kernel (the kernel included with 20.04, kernel version 5.4). If you know your way around gcc and compiling c files it's possible to get it to compile, but installation will then silently fail as some directory does not get copied over into driver folders correctly.

Finally I gave up on the Edimax hosted drivers (they technically don't even support kernels later than 4.14 for this device which is probably why it won't compile and install easily) and found someone in the open source world who supports this. The actual networking device inside this USB adapter is the Realtek 8188eu and with a quick internet search using the terms listed above you can find someone who hosts an open source driver specifically for this device and have it up and running quickly.

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Fixed a sluggish laptop.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024

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We had an issue with our son’s laptop a couple years ago. Luckily we remembered what the fix was. We replaced our plug in with your new one and our connection problems were over. Very happy!

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Drivers should come with the device

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2024

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Nice product but drivers should come with the device. If you are buying this device it should be obvious that you cannot get online to download the drivers. had to call a friend to complete the installation.

BSD? Yes. Linux-Libre? NO!

Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2024

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Yes, it technically works. I had gotten it for a *BSD system. No problem on Free- or Open-, HOWEVER... It does not work with the FSF approved Linux-Libre kernel.

nelson r zarate

Great little thing

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2024

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I just put it and windows 10 got it right away. Works great.

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