Hi I bought a few of these thinking they were the same as the ones I had previously bought. They are Cheep about US$4
These did not work automatically when I plugged them in. After a little investigation I found they detect as a 16M usb drive and you need usb_modeswitch to get them to switch to being a wifi adapter.
To make them work install Addons > System Tools
This adds the usb_modeswitch command to coreelec.
Then add the following to the autostart.sh in the config directory
Hi, i use TV BOX X96 on last CoreELEC, and test two usb wifi adapters, one SITECOM WL-352 N300, and DNUB-AT1 dual band N300, they just fine and autostart, but work connect to router at 150Mb/s, not 300Mb/s (on pc usb wifi dongles work ok at 300Mb/s), anyone know how to work on 300Mb/s ? 20/40MHz not work good , ?
DNUB-AT1 have 5Ghz , it’s connecting at 300Mb/s but when copy file the dongle disconect and disable from X96. I dont know why…?
Guys is there any usbethernet or usb lte dongle support in CoreELEC? Usbethernet I mean usb lte sticks that gives address over dhcp to the hosts’s usb0 (as an ethernet interface).
Hi there, I was struggling with this adapter too, I followed your instructions and others I’ve found online and made this little sob work. But I’m connected to my 5gz. and getting really awful speeds. I mean, nearly no difference (or worst) to the onboard adapter of my X96 Mini, like 18/19 Mbps. on Speedtest. Do you have any additional tweak that I could try? Cheers!
PS: I still have to test it on a windows machine, once I get my hands on one.
No sorry, I find 2.4g is better over longer distance or trough walls 5G is better at short distance also it depends on other factors like the number of other routers in the area.
I’ve rtried to work out which Realtek 8812/8822 driver is inlcuded before I buy an adapter. I really need an AC adapter (2.4 ghz actually for range)
Has anyone tried either of these 2 Edup USB wifi adapters
EP-AC1605GS seems to be RTL8812BU
EP-AC1690 seems to be RTL8822BU
The driver source I found which seems relevant is 88x2bu Driver
I looked at the Corelec sources but couldn’t see where the 8822BU driver source came from to see if either or both the above are going to work. Documentation suggests the 8822BU one should … but I have yet to find reports of success
Anyone succeeded with either of these USB AC Wifi adpaters ? Any other recommendations ?
Hey all.
I was testing my lan speed on my M8s II 2/16 tv box with CoreElec 9.2.5 today.
With the built-in 100 LAN port of the box I got ~ 95 Mbits/sec
With my TP-Link UE300 USB 3.0 to LAN adapter (Realtek 8153 chipset) I got ~ 187 Mbits/sec
The box only has USB 2.0 ports.
Both my Windows 10 PC and the TV Box are connected to my router with CAT6 UTP cables.
The router has Gbit lan ports. For the tests, I used iperf3. I set my Windows 10 PC as a server and the TV Box as a client.
Are these numbers OK ? I’m asking because I don’t really know what the average numbers are for boxes (and said specs) as the above.
p.s. Isn’t it weird that by reverting the scenario (setting the CoreElec TV Box as a server and the PC as a client) I got quite lower numbers: ~ 65 to 75 Mbits/sec ? The PC has a Gbit ethernet card.
I bought a AX88179 USB Gbit ethernet adapter for my x96Max 2GB ram.
It works out of the box when i plug it in. But when i repoot the box, it does not get detected automatically, I have to un- and replug it to work. Tried with both USB3 aud USB2 ports and both version 2.6.3 and 19.
I struggled with this for a few weeks and followed some other threads that did not help. It was just a small USB WIFI dongle that was only recognized as a storage device. This worked 100 %. It took me a few minutes to find the “system tools” that added usb_modeswitch, but finally found it in the coreelec repository>program files> system tools.
Thanks for the helpful post!!!
Can you send me a link of the usb adapters you have? I have an x96max that does not connect to the 1000 ethernet network. Only 100 for SSH commands. Thanks
Not sure if it helps, but I use a AX88179 Gigabit Ethernet adapter with my unit without any problems on CE 19.3.
Looks like you can get ones with that chipset at amazon for ~$15. Probably less if you hunt around.
guys you are awesome.
thanks