soup /g/ I've been running a mid 2009 Macbook Pro (5,5)

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Anonymous 2017-07-08 10:20:35 Post No. [Report]

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I've been running a mid 2009 Macbook Pro (5,5) since about the middle of 2009. Been on various Linux distros for the past year since El Capitan decided to rev the cpu to max at boot despite all fixes. I've been enjoying Arch recently and would like to keep it despite its inability to work with my shitass Broadcom card that complies with Netctl on startup a literal 50% of the time. I figure a good solution might be to just grab a wifi adapter. Considering the fact that I'm using such an old ass device, you can imagine that I'm about a stench of pepper away from being what one would consider a first class dirt merchant, so I'm hoping to spend as little money as possible. Assuming I can keep track of the fucking thing, one of these little pain pill sized guys seems about perfect for my needs. Do any of you kind folks have any experience with them? Is it going to shit out on me if my kids are playing 13 Dead End Drive or some equally monolithic board game too close to the router? Honestly, I don't mind splurging on something better, but it'd be nice if I could maintain a connection without bumping my elbow on an antenna or looking like Rickety Metalshacks with satellite dishes in the Starbucks and shit when I need more than 108kb/s. Advice appreciated in advance.

Anonymous 2017-07-08 10:26:16 Post No.61271377
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They're more than enough for your basic browsing needs. Just don't expect them to perform well on more latency-sensitive applications. I live in a place where the only choice for an internet connection are these stupid little "pocket wifi" things and have been using these wifi dongles for over a year on my desktop. The closest thing I had to a problem was plugging these things into an unpowered USB hub with a long-ass cable which meant that there wasn't enough power for the thing to operate properly. Just keep your expectations reasonable and it will serve you well.

Anonymous 2017-07-08 10:27:25 Post No.61271392
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>>61271324
>Macbook
Found your problem.

Anonymous 2017-07-08 10:30:12 Post No.61271410
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Anonymous 2017-07-08 10:30:12 Post No.61271410 [Report]

I have that edimax one. Works ootb with xubuntu. Osx drivers are trash, windows works but I don't know if it works ootb without networking.

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