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Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
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This is a dual-band (5GHz/2.4GHz) 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac USB WiFi adapter for the Raspberry Pi, offering a fast secondary network option and AP mode for creating your own network with your Raspberry Pi!
After experiencing some driver issues with our previous Realtek RTL8811cu USB adapters, we spend a lot of time testing different USB adapters and chipsets to find a reliable option that works with the Raspberry Pi without the need for 3rd-party drivers - and this is it!
This USB 3.0 dual-band USB WiFi adapter uses the MT7612U chipset, which has drivers included in Raspberry Pi OS along with a reputation of working very well with the Raspberry Pi. Use it with the USB 3.0 ports on your Raspberry Pi for the best performance.
We've found it ever-so-slightly outperforms the onboard WiFi on Raspberry Pi 5 in terms of range, and it's ideal for setting up your own network (AP mode) -which can easily be achieved via the Raspberry Pi OS GUI (super-simple guide coming soon - it's easier than ever!).
Works plug n' play with every model of Raspberry Pi (those with a full-size USB port).
Raspberry Pi not included.
Installation
Just pop the adapter into a USB port on your Raspberry Pi (ideally USB 3.0) and the built-in drivers in Raspberry Pi OS should pick up the adapter immediately. Select the WiFi icon on your Raspberry Pi and you'll now see two WiFi interfaces available! If you're using an older Raspberry Pi 2 (or earlier) without built-in WiFi, you'll just see the one interface.
Features
- Dual-band USB WiFi adapter for Raspberry Pi
- 2.4GHZ / 5GHz bands
- Compatible with all versions of Raspberry Pi (with full-size USB ports) when using the latest Raspberry Pi OS
- Plug n' Play
- MT7612U chipset
- USB 3.0 (backwards compatible with USB 2.0 on older Raspberry Pi boards)
- Drivers built-in to Raspberry Pi OS (support with other OS options may vary)
- Supports AP mode
- Adjustable antennas
Specification
- Standard: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
- Frequency range: 2.412 ~ 2.4835 GHz / 5.12 ~ 5.825GHz
- Wireless Speed: AC1300 (host device dependant!)
- 5GHz - up to 867Mbps
- 2.4GHz - up to 400Mbps
- Working channels:
- 5GHz - 36-165
- 2.4GHz - 1-14
- Spread spectrum: DSSS
- Modulation type: OFDM/CCK/16-QAM/64-QAM
- Transmit power: 20dBm
- Operating temperature: -20°C to 70°C, Storage: -40°C to 90°C
Resources
- Coming soon! (the drivers are cooked in to Raspberry Pi OS)
Package Contents
- 1x Dual-band USB WiFi adapter
Raspberry Pi not included
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Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
I was looking for a USB Wi-Fi adapter that could be used with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W without adding a kernel module. This product perfectly satisfied that requirement. Now, if it were a little smaller, it would be perfect.
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2 days ago
Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
I am not using with a Pi instead with a Laptop running a Debian derivative niche distro. It worked straight out of the box so the advertisement was correct: it indeed does not need additional drivers which can be a life saver when you want to connect to the network so don't have any drivers yet.
Thumbs up, would buy again. Everyone should have one in their digital bug-out-bag for emergency situations.
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2 months ago
Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
Works fine for connecting to a WiFi network, but I just couldn't get it to work as an access point. Only android devices would connect to the access point. Macbook, iPhone and Windows refused, returning to the password request. Tried to diagnose but nothing being logged on the Pi when trying to connect, and the Mac, iPhone, Windows failed to give any useful hints as to what is wrong. I am having to fall back to use the Pi 5 internal wifi to provide an access point for an upcoming event but that really isn't going to go far with number of connections (i.e. my reason for picking this WiFi adapter up).
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2 months ago
Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
I got this to have an extra wifi interface I could run in monitored mode. Works great, required zero comfiguration on my Linux box.
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2 months ago
Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
This module surprisingly does not work well with Ubuntu on raspberry PI.
At first, it didn’t work out of the box, I had to adjust my network settings.
The bigger problem was that this adapter would just stop working after some idle time, so my PI would get cut off the network completely and the only thing that helped after that was reboot. After reboot the connection is good but as soon as I leave my PI for some time, the adapter dies again.
I tried all sorts of fixes: turning power mode off, modifying current on usb3 output, etc
In the end I had to remove it completely because native PI’s WiFi module is more stable lol.
1 person found this review helpful.
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3 months ago
Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
Bought this dual band wifi dongle to replace one that had died. It works really well on an older pi b+ v1.2 that I use as an mpd server, range and performance is great.
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4 months ago
Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
Working great on my pi 4
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6 months ago
Dual-Band USB WiFi Adapter for Raspberry Pi (5GHz/2.4GHz MT7612U)
After trying several other USB WiFi adapters that didn’t work reliably, this device from Pi Hut worked perfectly on my RPi5. No drivers needed and flawless operation.
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7 months ago
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