a usb adapter "out of the box"

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a usb adapter "out of the box"

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Does anyone know of a usb wifi adapter that will work well "out of the box" with Mint 18.3 . Please post any known working types.
I have tried to use an old Belkin F5D7632-4 router as an adapter without success . unfortunately there is no spare slot on the motherboard of my machine for a wifi card,otherwise its a perfectly good PC
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Re: a usb adapter "out of the box"

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in general, the inbuilt WiFi card will start to fail on the Windows System firstly,
and then a little later on, on the Linux Dual_Boot System, as well.

at this point, using the inbuilt WiFi card gets very flaky,,
& so you start to browse the world of usb WiFi dongles.

personally, I've been using some old Netgear WG111v2 WiFi usb dongles,
but they are truly showing their age, now. :roll:

the TP-Link Brand often comes up, especially on the eBay market & more so than on Amazon,,
and the later versions do give far better speeds, these days, and are also often natively detected by an Linux System,
especially at boot-up. :D so the TL-WN721n works well, and the TL-WN722n has 4dBi detachable antenna, is even better.

these things are dirt cheap on eBay these days & are a quick replacement for those failed inbuilt WiFi cards.
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Re: a usb adapter "out of the box"

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Thanks Pierre Will give the TL 722n a try
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Re: a usb adapter "out of the box"

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This has worked well for me -
Panda PAU05 = Ralink RT 5372
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Re: a usb adapter "out of the box"

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the Panda PAU06 WiFi USB adapter is also detected by 18.3 and 19

in the odd chance it is not, Panda support has a Linux driver for it.
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Thanks for your replies ,I found on the bay from China an RT3070 worked perfectly , no setting up required .
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