CanaKitRaspberry Pi WiFi Wireless Adapter/Dongle (802.11 n/g/b 150 Mbps)

Long story short: I had my RPi zero w in storage for a while and last week, I pulled it out for a project. WiFi driver wasn't supported/just didn't work, so I bought an adapter from a generic brand which did not work at all, even with my computer.I then purchased this one, and it worked right out of the box! No configuring, just plug-and-play! My only complaint would be that the status LED is too bright, but that's an easy fix with a small patch of opaque tape. Highly recommend!

I have Linux Mint 20 and I just plugged this in and it worked, no configuration needed. It seems to get better reception than my old usb wifi device, so that's good also. Only downside is that it came in a comically huge box, I was wondering why they couldn't leave it in my p.o. box and it's because the inch long dongle came in a (roughly) 2 inch on a side box which came in a (roughly) foot by 1.5 foot by 8 inch box along with a sheet of paper to reduce the banging around.

This was essentially plug and play with my RaspberryPi 400. Plugged it in and it showed up immediately as an available interface. I used it for an exercise to create a new host wireless access point that forwarded/bridged over the existing one that was running on the internal WiFi interface. Totally successful.

The reason I'm not giving this product 5*s is because on my Samsung Chromebook I can no longer turn on Bluetooth. Not a deal-breaker though I'd like to be able to connect my phone to my Chromebook.

Used with Raspberry Pi 4B and Raspberry Pi 5Pros:1) Absolutely works straight out of the box without any need to configure anything! Plug and Play!2) When you right-click on the wireless icon in the top right margin of the screen, it shows both the Broadcom Wi-Fi and the Ralink RT5370 links so that you know for sure that the CanaKit Raspberry Pi WiFi Wireless Adapter has been detected and is in use.Cons:1) Does not support 5G. I am not taking a star off for this since if you look it shows only 2.4G and doesn't mention 5.0G, in other words, I should have checked and I didn't. I'm disappointed, but it's my own fault.2) It's pretty expensive, and I would not have bought it if I had realized it did not support 5G. I did not rate it on Value for Money, because I don't think it would be fair, but if I did I would probably give it one star.

I purchased this dongle for a first generation raspberry pi running rasbian. My intention was to turn it into an octoprint server for 3D printing, but my wifi router is on the other end of the house. I figured I would have to download something to make it work, but even with a very very old install of raspbian it worked practically out of the box! I believe the dongle even came with instructions, but by just using the GUI interface, i was able to configure it. Even shortly after I started installing octoprint and having the installation destroy my raspbian install (!!!), I was able to get the dongle configured on a newly flashed Octoprint SD card with a little more effort. I'd say it's worth it, although now I need to buy a USB hub or something.

I know its a BGN wifi dongle, that by itself is fine. However, it takes a long time to wake up after sleep, it takes a long time to connect to an active network and it seems to have a weaker signal strength. I have line of sight to the AP and its perhaps 30-40 feet away but the signal strength is 3 of 5 bars. and has all the aforementioned issuesIt worked straight away with no drivers needed. I am using an immutable OS so a dongle that requires drivers was not an option.It works, but will probably look for another solution

The CANA WiFi dongle is specifically made for use with Raspberry Pi computers and unlike several others I have tried, this one worked right out of the box. I had tried another more expensive brand, but it simply would not work. It turned out that one would only work with Windows machines. This one has been working flawlessly since I put it in service running on an Amateur Radio hotspot that connects radio signals to services on the Internet.