In theory the Edimax USB Wifi dongles are the de-facto dongles to get if you believe the internet.  Which I did.  But they’ve turned out to be a pain.  I have 2 of them and both drop packets …

I was really surprised after a failure of the wireless router in my house, that the pi didn’t reconnect.  Looking around I don’t seem to be the only person having this issue so I modified …