WiFi

Phil_aka_Pip

Apparently WiFi is bundled in the rent of the room I'm taking next week, so I need a WiFi thing (do you call it a dongle?) that sits in a USB port. The computer is a 32 bit laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. There are simply LOADS of WiFi dongles on amazon and I don't have the time to trawl them all. So does anybody know of one that will work with my laptop?

Myranda

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Network-AWUS036AC-dual-band-Antenna-Adaptor/dp/B00OEAXK54/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1534528987&sr=8-8&keywords=alfa+wireless+adapter

Plus

Two of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/quality-Antenna-Wireless-Enhancer-Aerial-Black/dp/B01HR7YTM8/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1534529109&sr=1-1&keywords=15dbi

You'll pick up WiFi from the whole street 

notanon

How old is that laptop? It's been a long time since I have seen a laptop without WiFi. You may need to split the the 2 and 5Ghz channel on the router if laptop is very old (easy to do).

Phil_aka_Pip

I'm guessing 10 years. It has the same cpu as this desktop which is at least 10 years old. Funnily enough it runs like snot off a stick, whereas the desktop runs at the speed of death squared. Same Ubuntu brew as well ...

octatonic

darthed1981

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Apparently WiFi is bundled in the rent of the room I'm taking next week, so I need a WiFi thing (do you call it a dongle?) that sits in a USB port. The computer is a 32 bit laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. There are simply LOADS of WiFi dongles on amazon and I don't have the time to trawl them all. So does anybody know of one that will work with my laptop?

A quick google should reveal some properly supported ones.

Device support in linux isnt the crapshoot it used to be though.  I'd plug anything into Ubuntu and expect it to work these days.

Myranda

darthed1981 said:

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Apparently WiFi is bundled in the rent of the room I'm taking next week, so I need a WiFi thing (do you call it a dongle?) that sits in a USB port. The computer is a 32 bit laptop running Ubuntu 16.04. There are simply LOADS of WiFi dongles on amazon and I don't have the time to trawl them all. So does anybody know of one that will work with my laptop?

A quick google should reveal some properly supported ones.

Device support in linux isnt the crapshoot it used to be though.  I'd plug anything into Ubuntu and expect it to work these days.

That's why I posted the one I did - tested it extensively in Debian and Ubuntu based distros. you don't need the extra antenna, but at uni I get signal from a building across the courtyard and a couple of access points somewhere off campus, which is fun

Phil_aka_Pip

@Myranda fanx their list does include "Linux" but they don't say which flavour. Can the driver be compiled for 32 bit architecture?