Edimax 2-in-1 Wi-Fi 4 802.11n N150 + Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) 4.0 Combination Adapter for PC, Wireless Nano USB Adapter Dongle, 150Mbps, Windows 11 Plug-n-Play, EW-7611ULB *Check Out V2 for BT 4.2

This is the best thing to add to an original RPi that only has 2 USB2 ports without any wireless support, or really any older laptop computer with limited USB ports. It also functions in really old computers with USB1 ports, with much slower speeds.Pros:+ bluetooth AND WiFi n+ compact size+ simple USB+ driver support for many older operating systems+ automatic driver install in Win10/11+ rtl8xxxu support in linuxCons/improvements:- linux support is flaky with older versions- bluetooth limited to 4.0- no 5GHz band WiFi support- no bluetooth support in MacNote: Rasbian/RPiOS (maybe all linux?) requires removing the blacklist on the rtl8xxxx driver in order to work:echo "" > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtl8xxxu.conf && reboot

Currently using this when the wifi card of my Surface Pro 3 broke. At first, I was skeptical, but it has actually worked fairly well. The Internet speed is acceptable (rarely any buffering when watching videos on YouTube or Netflix) and the Bluetooth connection is solid as well. Connecting to wifi is sometimes slow/doesn't connect to networks automatically, but this is a relatively minor issue for me. It also gets a little hot after a few hours, but I haven't noticed that this has affected its performance. The installation was a bit tedious, but I would recommend looking at the top comment for this device by Michael Ronayne for guidance. After following his instructions, I was able to install the device with no issues. I have had this device since April 2017 and so far (fingers crossed), this device is still working smoothly. Given the small form factor and usability, I would recommend this if you are having any wifi/bluetooth issue.

The EDIMAX N150 WiFi & Bluetooth USB adapter works well with Linux after drivers have been installed. It's not Plug 'n Play with Linux. The WiFi and Bluetooth drivers must be compiled separately. My Linux distribution is MX Linux 23, a Debian derivative, that uses a Linux 6.x.x.x kernel as most current Linux distributions do. The driver software from the EDIMAX website only supports Linux kernels up to 5.11.x.x, and the reason why I knocked off a star. The Bluetooth driver software from the EDIMAX website works just fine with 6.x.x.x kernels, but I compiled the WiFi driver with software acquired from github. Every Linux kernel update requires that the drivers be recompiled for the new kernel.

This review is for the EW-6711ULB V2 adapter with the Realtek rtl8723du chip. The system I ordered it for is running Kubuntu(Ubuntu) 22.04.1 LTS with Kernel version 5.18 (Linux). Unfortunately this adapter doesn't work right out of the box without manually installing drivers. Older Edimax WiFi adapters always worked as soon as you plugged them in. In fact I pulled out an old Edimax EW-7811Un adapter (n150 without Bluetooth) and it still works without manually installing a driver.To make things worse, Edimax drivers are out of date and don't work on recent kernel versions. There are two options for manually installed drivers for Linux. Official Edimax drivers from their website and 3rd party open source drivers by "lwfinger" hosted on GitHub. (lwfinger/rtl8723du)First I tried the open source lwfinger WiFi driver and it works, however it doesn't seem to include the Bluetooth driver. A post by the "Edimax Support Team" in the Linux Mint forums describe how to build and install this 3rd party driver on Mint/Ubuntu. That post mentions that Bluetooth should work after installing, but it didn't. I installed the "main" branch, but there is a v5.13.4 branch as well. Both branches seem to have been updated recently. I'm not sure which is best to use but the instructions suggest v5.13.4. Since Bluetooth wasn't working with the 3rd party driver I decided to remove the lwfinger driver and try the Edimax drivers instead.The Edimax Drivers for Linux are version 1.0.0.0 and claim to support kernel version 4.4 - 5.11. The date is 2022-05-13. I attempted to compile the Edimax WiFi driver on kernel 5.18 and ran into an error regarding net/ipx.h missing from kernel-headers. It seems that the ancient IPX support was removed from Linux much to the disappointment of Retro LAN Gamers. Rather than continuing to build without IPX support, the build process failed for the Edimax WiFi driver.Next I tried the Edimax Bluetooth driver and it built and installed successfully.At this point it seems that to have both WiFi and Bluetooth working you need to install the WiFi driver from lwfinger and the Bluetooth driver from Edimax. This combination works, at least for kernel v5.18. The latest kernel as of writing this is 6.2. I don't know if these drivers will work beyond 5.18 because I haven't tested. The "main" branch of the lwfinger driver does mention supporting 6.2.The problem with installing a driver manually from source code is that whenever your kernel version is updated you must compile and install the driver again. This might be troublesome if you don't have a working WiFi connection after rebooting with a new kernel version. You should keep the build folders with the driver source code in case you need to rebuild/reinstall or uninstall the drivers in the future (sudo make uninstall).Now that it's working the performance seems good. Connections on both WiFi and Bluetooth seem stable and reliable. I'm about 15 feet + a wall from the router and I have 85%-100% signal strength. Speed tests have reached up to 87 mbps. Bluetooth seems to work fine. I connected my phone (source) to use the PC (sync) as a speaker, and I connected the pc (source) to an echo dot (sync) to use as a speaker. Performance was good as long as I didn't connect to both at once. I didn't try controllers or other devices but I assume they will work too.Overall I'm disappointed in the current state of this product's Linux support. It sucks that this isn't just plug and play like the old ones, but if it must have a manually installed driver it would be nice if they would keep it updated and functional.

Easy to set up and has taken care of my 10 year old laptop's intermittently failing wifi connections in addition to making it bluetooth compatible with my other computer and phone. Transferring files and connecting to bluetooth speakers is super easy!Update:It's been about 3 months and I cannot get the bluetooth functionality to work any longer. I'm supposedly missing a driver for my bluetooth devices, even though it's plug and play and any bluetooth devices shouldn't need a driver as they connect through the plug in device and its own driver. I've Googled and followed steps to try to resolve the issue but cannot get it to play audio through a bluetooth device although they are connected. The wifi functionality is still fine and that's the more important thing I needed out of this adapter. In my research to resolve this issue, it sounds like a common problem for Windows 7 users.