PiHut Vs. Edimax wifi dongles

A couple of weeks ago I swung by the PiHut website to order some bits & pieces.

While I was there I ordered one of their wifi dongles, just so I could try to evaluate its performance compared to my Edimax dumpy dongle.

So I've just spent a couple of hours this afternoon running a few tests.

Configure Wifi on Raspberry Pi

Well, I got myself a nano wifi dongle from Amazon, plugged it into my Pi, followed an on-line tutorial, and then.....Nothing!

 

It was one of those jobs I thought was gonna be real easy, because everyone was doing it.

 

So I just had to pour myself a glass of red, then decide on a logical approach to diagnose the problem.