Comfast Wi-Fi Nano USB 150Mbps Wireless Adapter with WPS Quick Connect Button CF-WU712P

Great product when it works.The Comfast Wi-Fi Nano Wireless adapter has problems maintaining a solid connection, it regularly halts all connection (says no networks available) to the wifi while at the same time my Panda Wireless one does not. My girlfriend has had to resort to using her phone as a hot spot because this item simply doesn't work most of the time. I recommend you spend a few dollars more and get a wireless adapter that will actually function consistently.Things I've done to make sure the error isn't on my end.I've used every USB slot on the motherboard and updated the bios, reseated the USB connections on the motherboard, tried it on my personal desktop that has no issue with my Panda Wireless one. None of this has fixed it, so I'm led to believe I either received a broken product, or the product is simply not designed very well. I'm likely going to refund this item because I have no use for an item that doesn't work in my house.

Bought this so I could use it as an AP for my iPhone at my workplace. Since all the WiFis are locked I decided I'd create my own.Tested it on my Win10 PC and it installed all the drivers automatically. Chose to share my existent ethernet connection and ran some commands in a CMD window and it was set.At work, the PC is running Win7. So I had to download the drivers and software from Realtek (at the item description is the webpage and driver needed). Which made things easier. Because in order to turn it into a wireless AP you wont need to run commands on a CMD window. Just plug it in, run the software and choose to create an AP. You can modify the SSID & Password, also make it so it won't transmit it SSID as well (good if you don't want to get caught).Range is decent, tested it and still at 50 feet (with a DLOS) my iPhone had two signal bars. The best thing about it is that it is really, really, really tiny. So no one else has noticed it while plugged in.If you plan to leave it plugged in, use a back USB port. If not, then use the front ones. The best thing is that when you plug it, Windows automatically launches the software. Enable AP, close it and forget about it.I was able to pair an iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Mini and another Laptop. The only downside is that HDCP doesn't seem to assing an IP to every device. So you have to do it manually. Just use the settings of the device that's already connected and change the IP by upping it one number (xxx.xxx.x.190 to xxx.xxx.x.191) and you'll be set.Haven't tested it as a Wireless adapters. But I guess the range and performance should be the same.

I had to compile a RTL8188EU module from github in order to get this working on a raspberry pi (perhaps some of the newest releases have this module but 3.18 does not.) It works fine once the module and firmware are in place.

Works like it should.