I've used this on Kodi and Raspbian (Jesse) and it has worked without having to download or install anything. The included mini-cd is for installing on a computer. I have used this on a windows 10 desktop and it works well, picking up wifi on the other side of the house through a couple walls.

Product as described and works well in general. However, I could not smoothly stream mjpeg video from my raspberry pi 2 with this. Ended up buying a different dongle for that. But aside from streaming and other high bandwidth tasks, this dongle works out of the box and works well.

Keeps dropping connection on University Network on mid 2009 MacBook Pro running latest High Sierra Beta. Useless.

It used to work fine but after a while the black plastic broke off for no obvious reason leaving the internals exposed and eventually rendering the device useless. You can probably find a better built adapter.

Edimax claims its latest 802.11n wireless adapter is the smallest in the world, and we find no reason to disagree. Once you've plugged it into a spare USB socket, the body of the EW-7811Un sticks out less than a centimetre.

World's smallest 802.11n wireless adapter. Edimax claims its latest 802.11n wireless adapter is the smallest in the world, and we find no reason to disagree. Once you've plugged it into a spare USB socket, the body of the EW-7811Un sticks out less than a centimetre.

I bought this dongle so I could set up a wireless hotspot on my PC and it works flawlessly! I can connect my phone and it works fine!

Great - literally plug and play. However, after less than 3 months, the black plastic end came off and the thing is now completely useless.