BLUECELL 300Mbps Realtek Rtl8192Cu Chipset 2T2R Mini Wifi Usb Adapter/ Wireless Lan Card/ Wifi Dongle

Warning, the item pictured is not what I received. No antenna or antenna port. Additionally the chipset is different than described. This makes it useless to me for a raspbian AP.Either this was an unfortunate mistake or something worse.

I wasnt sure if this was gonna work that great because of the price. Got product and plugged it right into my computer in seconds I was on my home network with great connection. I always now can use my computer to use my mobile hot spot with this product. The range on it is not the greatest for the hotspot but it does run my sons room across the house with no problem. Overall for the price this thing works great

This adapter should work with older Linux 2.6 distros such as RHEL/CentOS 6 if you install the right drivers, and unlike the kernels usually in use by Raspberry Pi users, they are not part of the default installation.RHEL/CentOS 6 users should look for a source RPM for a kmod package called r8192cu-kmod-4.0.2_9000-2.el6.src.rpm or something similar for your older Linux distro. Build the kmod package for your kernel via rpmbuild as you would any other kmod package. You may need to modify the r8192cu-kmod.spec file to specify the exact kernel in use by your system.If you can't find this kmod package for RHEL/CentOS 6, try using the kmod packages for Fedora 12 through 14 -- one of those should work with minimal build changes.If all goes well, you will see the adapter identify itself and get configured like this:usb 1-1: new high speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcdusb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8178usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3usb 1-1: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapterusb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtekusb 1-1: SerialNumber: ...usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choicertl8192cu: Chip version 0x11rtl8192cu: MAC address: ...rtl8192cu: Board Type 0rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.binieee80211 phy2: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc'usb 1-1: firmware: requesting rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.binUnlike some Broadcom adapters that have some interesting firmware quirks in virtual machines on these older distros, this adapter will not have any problems loading firmware from a virtual machine, and so the host system can pass the adapter interface through without pre-loading the firmware from the host.Some quick work in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to set up the adapter with the interface name you like should finish the initial interface setup. If you're using the adapter within a virtual machine, you will want to set the ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1" option within your udev rule for the adapter on your host system and leave this out of your udev rule within the virtual machine.For example:SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="mac-address-goes-here", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlanap0", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1"This adapter will work in AP mode with a recent version of hostapd such as the one provided through the EPEL repository for RHEL/CentOS 6, and so you do not need the old Realtek hostapd "version 0.8" bundle which is very much outdated and insecure against WPA2 attacks. The drivers referenced above implement NL80211 instead of the older WEXT interface and will work with hostapd if you configure the parameter setting "driver=nl80211" in the hostapd.conf master config file.As for the adapter capabilities, "iw list" shows these of interest:Supported Ciphers: * WEP40 (00-0f-ac:1) * WEP104 (00-0f-ac:5) * TKIP (00-0f-ac:2) * CCMP (00-0f-ac:4) * 00-0f-ac:10 * GCMP (00-0f-ac:8) * 00-0f-ac:9 * CMAC (00-0f-ac:6) * 00-0f-ac:13 * 00-0f-ac:11 * 00-0f-ac:12Available Antennas: TX 0 RX 0Supported interface modes: * IBSS * managed * AP * AP/VLAN * monitor * P2P-client * P2P-GOSupported commands: * start_apsoftware interface modes (can always be added): * AP/VLAN * monitorThe adapter kmod mentioned previously is not particularly chatty about what it's doing, and so it shouldn't fill up your dmesg logs or any other logs.So all of you out there who are trying to get AP mode to work with a Raspberry Pi, this adapter should also work for you, but it's also nice to know that people using older distros should also be able to get this to work.

Like several other customers, I received the wrong item: just the plug-in module without the detachable antenna. That might still have worked, but none of the other items pictured - the driver CD and instructions - were included, either. I attempted to download the driver from the manufacturer's website, but with no success - and the device won't work without the driver. Note to Amazon: Check to see that what you're shipping corresponds to what's in the ad!

This thing just a little dongle that plugs into your USB port it's nothing reallyspecial however it does not have an antenna and do not arrive at described I bought two of them and neither had antennas

ordered product expecting antenna etc.. in other words what was pictured instead got a different usb wireless product and one that needs drivers to install which arent the drivers linked in the comments. this is what I get for trying to save a few bucks I guess...

easy to install and works in a windows 7 machine

Not a thing wrong. Work as they should on desktops no problem with Windows 10