How do I get a realtek wifi dongle to work

[Bret Busby]

On 27/10/22 20:31, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-10-27 at 08:36 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I have a computer with a wifi dongle.
>>
>> It shows as being a Realtek 802.11ac.
> 
> Advice I received from a friend who is far more knowledgeable than me
> was to simply buy a USB dongle with the AR9271 chip, so just search
> eBay for that. I ordered one from China for GBP5.74. It arrived
> surprisingly quickly and "Just Worked" with the 22.04 server installer
> which did the network config for me putting in the network ID, passcode
> etc.
> 
> Apparently these don't do 5GHz WiFi but at that price with no screwing
> around trying for hours to find drivers I'll take that every time.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
The 5GHz wifi may be okay for people in the USA and Europe, who have 
GB/s download speeds in accessing the Internet, but, here in Australia, 
we plebs have download speeds less than 100Mb/s, so the 2.5MHz wifi 
speed is quite adequate (I believe it provides data transmission speeds 
of up to 300MB/s or 300Mb/s (I am not sure which), both of which, are 
way out of range of what we get in Australia).

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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