MINI WIFI USB WIRELESS ADAPTER DONGLE 150MBPS LAN NETWORK RASPBERRY PI 2 RT5370
I have two of the above wifi dongles and even when they are right next to my WiFi AP they only connect at 1mb/s. They do provide the Volumio AP that I am able to log into, but once I have then set up wifi and connect to it i only ever get 1 Mb/s reported as the connection speed. Scanning my library at this speed takes all day vs using an Ethernet cable taking less than 20 minutes.
I have two Raspberry Pi B+ V2s and 2 of these wifi dongles that I want to set up for friends and give them away, but I know that if they dont work reliably thay just wont get used.
I know that I should be getting a minimum of 20 Mb/s for reliable use and as a comparison the built in WiFi on my pi3 V3 reports at 64mb/s
Unfortunately we can’t provide native support for all wifi dongles out there, there are simply too many.
Your best bet is to get the Edimax nano dongle, which we recommend: amazon.com/Edimax-EW-7811Un … B003MTTJOY
I just thought that as that dongle/chipset was the one reccomended by the general Pi community and as it had been reported as working by other Volumio users I though it was a safe bet.
is there any way of manually adding drivers so that I can use this wifi dongle? surely soemthing is supported as I can use the AP in Volumio ect.
ive just tested one of them in my laptop and Windows installed the driver as FRITZ! WLAN USB Stick AC860. when i use this instead of my laptop wifi I get perfect HD video streaming and faster file transfer speeds.
It would be a shame and a waste if I cant use these wifi dongles.