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When you plug in the dongle, you end up with wlan0 (native) and wlan1 (the USB stick). I disable both wired / wireless connections in LibreELEC settings and just let the USB dongle take over and connect to the 5G network? Simple as that? Hopefully the RPI4 will address this with a better solution as near enough every forum relating to the RPI3 you will find people talking about the poor onboard wifi. Wifi was always a fantastic addition to the Raspberry Pi but it just seems to perform so badly.

Can I make the assumption that because it is compatible with OpenELEC, that it isn't going to have issues with LibreELEC? Just works out the box? The correct answer is yes!Īnd no, ethernet isn't an option unfortunately. Again a complete minefield of information but in the end managed to find the one mentioned in the subject at a good price and confirmed by a couple of sources to work with RPi / OpenELEC no problems. So the next step is to buy a 5Ghz compatible USB dongle for the RPI3. The 2.4 Ghz band run off internal antannae and as expected don't perform as well.

Apologies for the ramble.Īfter some more digging, I found out that the three big old external antennas on the W9980 are for the 5Ghz band only. The PC near enough next to the router can max my 80mb fibre out on the same wifi network so who knows who to point the finger at. The transfer rate of this 100mb file was between 100kb/s - 200kb/s! No wonder it wasn't streaming anything! Checked and double checked my router settings, done a few of the old tricks - changed channels etc but nothing improved it. My router is a TD-LINK TD-W9980 and although it's not positioned in a great spot (new build, master socket in a cupboard), it can only be 10 feet away from the pi with not much in the way. After a constant battle I finally found the root of my problems - a mix between my router and it's 2.4Ghz wifi network.