Realtek RTL8811CU USB WiFi Adapter 600Mbps USB2.0 Nano 11AC Dual Band 5.8GHz 2.4GHz WiFi Dongle IEEE 802.11 a b g n ac For Laptop Desktop PC IPTV USB Network Adapter Support Windows 10/8/7

Detected automatically by both Windows 10 and MX Linux - works well with both.

Does exactly what is expected. Fast and easy to use. No tech support required.

I recently purchased an touch sceen interactive monitor that I needed to connect my Desktop PC to. The device required either an HDMI + USB C connection to get both video and touch to work, or to use Miracast. I bought the realtek adapter to add this functionality. It was a gamble as I couldn't find evidence that it would for this or any of the other adapters I looked at. Apparently the key is for it to have "Certified Wifi Direct" or some such phrase.Anyway after an old-skool CD rom install of the drivers and a reboot I just needed to go into the Config Utility, set up and it worked. Video over Miracast is a bit less smooth than via HDMI, but the touchscreen functionality was there and perfectly responsive which was brilliant.Nice to be able to set up a short-range hotspot too should I want to avoid sharing the usual wifi log in for any reason.

just plug in to use, been using for weeks now and no problems yet. pc is upstairs from main hub. great adapter

failed after 2 hours use

Great for the price no dropouts in signal eady to install

I bought this adapter due to saying it had Linux support. I did eventually get it working under Ubuntu 22.04 but it was not easy. My solution is included at the end of my review for anyone wanting to jump straight to that.The included resources and guidance for this product did not work at all. First of all, the supplied drives and manual came on a mini CD, who has an optical drive in their computer these days!!? Fortunately for me, I work in IT and keep a usb optical drive in my toolkit.Second obstacle, the User Manual in the root of the CD only includes instructions for installing under Windows. It asks you to run autorun.exe, a file that will not run on Linux (unless you run emulation software, which would not install the driver correctly anyway).I then looked in the LINUX folder whch had 3 folders for different chipsets, RTL8811, RTL8814 & RTL 8188. The sticher on the back of the box says this is an RTL8811CU, so I tried that first. The readme.txt gave me the following info;- install.sh - Script to compile and install WiFi driver easily in PC-Linux- User Guide for Driver compilation and installation - Please refer to document/Quick_Start_Guide_for_Driver_Compilation_and_Installation.pdfThe Quick Start Guide says " If you want to use our Wi-Fi solutions to access network on PC-Linux, you can just run install.sh script and then control Wi-Fi with utilities such as Network Manager." However, it missed the steps to make install.sh executable, and also to install build tools e.g. make, on your system first. Even after completeing these unspecified steps, the install.sh script failed to compile the driver with multiple make errors. I repeated these steps with the 2 other drivers included on the CD but these failed with similar compile errors. At this point I think most people reading this will conclude that the install of a driver under Linux is not easy or something that even an experienced Linux user would find easy. Maybe very experienced Linux and C programmers users could find and fix the errors in the C compilation, but is unreasonable to expect a consumer to have this knowledge.MY SOLUTIONAfter some Googling, I found an open source project on Github with a driver for this chipset.The user is called "brektrou" and the project is called rtl8821CU, with a description "Realtek RTL8811CU/RTL8821CU USB wifi adapter driver version 5.4.1 for Linux 4.4.x up to 5.x".You can find this project easily googling "github rtl8821cu linux".It still requires using the Linux command line to install so may not be suitable for very inexperienced Linux users. I reccomend checking out the instructions first before buying this product.The sections I folowed were;- First, clone this repository- find your usb-wifi-adapter device ID, like "0bda:1a2b", by type: lsusb- install usb_modeswitch: sudo apt install usb_modeswitch- sudo usb_modeswitch -KW -v <instert you device ID e.g. 0bda (see above)> -p 1a2b- cd into the cloned repository- make- sudo make installI also had to install dmks ubuntu-drivers & autoinstall. Check out article 1211456 on askubuntu.comsudo apt install dkms -ysudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstallAfter all this, the dongle is working fine, with good speeds & both 2.4Ghz & 5GHz bands. It's not very portable though, as the installation method is pretty time consuming, so plugging into a new PC is a pain every time.EDITAlso you need to do this manual procedure everytime the linux kernel is updated, which is quite often.

Bought for a TV streaming device.Works perfectly thank you