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

It has only been 24 hours, but on a Linux Mint desktop that lost its ethernet connection - it was plug and play. Computer is 45" from the router so it is plenty fast for home use.

Works out of the box on GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

Working very good 💯

A great piece needed for my printer

Super bueno

Was plug and play with an up to date Ubuntu laptop, so that was nice. As I needed to plug it into there first to get it's MAC Address. So only had it plugged in there for like 2 minutes. Then I plugged it into an older Raspberry Pi zero with a micro USB to female USB to add to a project I was working on that needed to have an IP reservation from my router. Don't know if it was plug and play for the Pi. As in the about 5 minutes before I even got to check if it was online. This was while I was adding the IP reservation. The Edimax got insanely hot, like too hot to even touch without it burning ya. If I had left it in any longer I'm certain it would have started a fire. Or if the wire was laying on fabric and not a table. Suspect I must have gotten a bad one. Issue was 100% the adapter and not the micro USB cable. As the cable was in use for months previous with an ethernet USB adapter and still worked just fine when I went back to the ethernet adapter instead. Can't be 100% certain what happened but that's what I get for buying the cheapest Linux Wi-Fi Adapter I could find. Just tossed it in the trash rather then bother getting my $10 back and to make sure no one else gets hurt by trying to use it.

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.

I found this brand back in the days of using Newegg. Every purchase is great value and reliability. In this case I needed a wifi dongle for my Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro printer. The important part there is it needed to be N150. Works as it should.