“Provides much better signal strength than the built in RP4 chip, especially when it's in a metal case. Worked perfectly with MoOde and streams Spotify Connect flawlessly.”
“It works badly! unstable internet! After opening 3 to 4 web pages, the adapter hangs! Poor signal strength! The built-in wifi in Rpi 5 has higher signal strength! The driver is probably what's not working here.”
“Solved my weary WIFI problem working from my garden-office. The Pi5 worked ok when perched precariously on top of a box on the window sill but not on the desk. Now with the adapter + 2m extension lead WiFi is flying again! :-)”
“The WiFi receiver is great, does monitor mode and packet injection in both 2.4 and 5 GHz can't beat it for that price, and of course the service from Pi Hut as always top notch with super fast shipping.”
“Stand alone this adaptor works well with the Pi5, with no additional driver needed and visible in Raspian with no issues.
The main reason for giving this adaptor 3 stars is the lack of accepable shielding on the main body of the adaptor which means all the nasty EMI noise from the USB3 circuitry blasts out and renders the internal WiFi at 2.4Ghz unusable, and I am sure has some impact on the dongle's 2.4Ghz wifi despite the flip-up external aerials. This is a wireless dongle, it should be shilded to prevent this sort of noise escaping.
This means that, for my use case, I either have to use it in a USB2 port (severly constraining the throughput of the adaptor) or use a 1M long shielded twisted-pair USB3 extension cable to place it 1m away from the Pi. Given this was purchased to enable a COMPACT, mobile, secure, VPN travel hotspot for which I need both the internal and external WiFi (up stream and downstream radios) and usually I have no control over the public hotspot's band (as 5Ghz is not affected) then this is sub-optimal.
When I get a chance I am going to try and add some shileding myself using foil tape but, given the interfrerence that USB3 is known to create why is this shilding not already in place around the USB3 circuitry”
