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Quick way to switch to a USB WiFi adaptor on your Raspberry Pi

I wrote a long winded guide to this in a previous post, but I've since though of a better way if you already have you onboard WiFi adaptor connected to your network. You also don't need an ethernet connection and can be running headless, simply head over to this directory: cd /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections ls -l you should   more »

How to switch your WiFi connection to a USB WiFi adaptor on your Raspberry Pi

Update There's a quicker way if you are running headless and/or already have your Pi connected via WiFi Recently been researching USB WiFi adaptors a for my Pi3 given I just installed a PCIe Intel 8290 on my Lenovo Thinkstation M93a and I'm getting a whopping 780Mb/s connection through my WiFi broadband router. I'm also running out of ethernet   more »

How to easily broadcast the hostnames of other devices on your network using a RaspberryPi or any linux machine

Whenever you read on the internet of how to connect to other devices on your home network using a hostname instead of an IP address when they the machine doesn't broadcast it, you generally get the following two answers: add an entry to your hosts file manually yourself configure your router to send out the name. There's a couple of issues   more »

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