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In Reply to: RE: Looking for a good, cheap WiFi dongle for my Pi... posted by Rod M on September 26, 2017 at 19:14:45
PiCorePlayer supports Wifi already... you don't need a dongle for it... JUst go to the wifi Settings tab....Cut-Throat
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Oh, well that was easy.
I'll try it tomorrow.
-Rod
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Cut-Throat
My office is not more than 50 feet away from the nearest access point, but it has to go through a nearly a foot thick rock wall and floor to the room above. I ordered E-Stat's $14 dongle from Amazon which gave me an excuse to order a couple of CDs to get free shipping on the order.
-Rod
You're sure that you have the Wifi setup on the Pi and you have run the scan on PiCoreplayer and looked at the signal strength of the routers that you have in your house?If you can't see any router at all, the rock wall may block the dongle as well. I get a signal strength of 95 with mine 50 feet away and through a couple walls.
Cut-Throat
Edits: 09/27/17
Yeah, I see them. One seemed like it connected, but wanted a reboot and then I couldn't see that one the next time and it wouldn't connect. If I had the password for the neighbor behind me, it would be great. My office is just a bitch for WiFi. To make matters worse, the rack is on a wall that is below grade, so you have dirt and a concrete driveway and then a foot of rock.
I've been tempted to add an access point here, but I have it all wired and get Gigabit speeds on wire, so why bother? I'd change my mind if I had a smart phone though.
-Rod
How about a mesh network?
Cut-Throat
We already have Cat6 through the entire house. My office alone has 4 outlets and everything goes to a 16 port Gigabit switch to the Gigabit router. Then, I've got a separate WiFi router and two more that function as access points. Coverage is excellent now for the whole house and the yard, except for WiFi in my office which is not a problem for me. And it's not like the office can't see any WiFi, the only problem spot is low on one wall which happens to be where the rack lives, but that area has a wired connection and an 8 port Gigabit switch.
Rather than an expensive mesh network, I'd just get an inexpensive AC1900 WiFi router and configure it as an access point if I ever get a smart phone and found it necessary.
-Rod
Why are you trying to get wireless working when you have Ethernet??
Cut-Throat
I understand your confusion. My son is moving out this weekend and I may let him have the RPi if he wants to use it and he will only have WiFi there.
-Rod
Well, it will probably work where he's going, so I'm still confused.
Cut-Throat
it is woefully insensitive. Trust me.
For the princely sum of $13 on Amazon Prime, I purchased this unit . Painless installation with piCorePlayer.
Now I don't have to place an access point nearly on top of the RPi to get uninterrupted 96/24 content.
Some here claim that the dongles work better, depending on the S/PDIF 'HAT' one chooses to use, or so I am told.
I have a bedroom that has poor WiFi coverage so the below was suggested by another inmate. Yet to more the Pi so I haven't tried WiFi as yet but will soon.
What are you using to power your Pi?
In my experience, and my streaming reference is the much more expensive uRendu with a $400 LPS-1 for power, is that the Pi is quite sensitive to the quality of its 5V source. Real audible improvement can be had by a simple $20-$50 PS upgrade.
Cheapo Jameco transformer LPS or the iFi iPower are a couple reasonable choices.
Some here claim that the dongles work better
whether or not you stream hi rez (88-96-176-192/24) content.
Never had any trouble with low rez stuff, but now have quite a collection of the former where the thirteen buck device prevents drop outs.
Tripling (or more) the bandwidth requirement can make a difference. :)
along with gigabit routers and switches and a new NETGEAR Nighthawk X4S WiFi router, all is good. Even my decrepit 2011 MacBook Air cracks 100Mbps on WiFi.
Before that, drop-outs with SONOS running TIDAL or QOBUZ on WiFi was plagued with drop-outs.
No more.
Still, the bedroom is the weak spot as it's at the other end of the house with even the inner load-bearing walls stuffed with insulation as sound proofing.
No Cat-5E in the bedroom as the wife got to the contractor that did the re-model (2003) before I did and said 'no phone in the bedroom'.
OK, no TV in the bedroom either so I win! :-)
For $12 that dongle looks like a good solution.
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