WiFi Dongle for second WiFi device

[baltika_no_9]

I would be very surprised if the imaging or formatting methods were material to the problem. Formatting is something I always do but am not sure it is absolutely necessary; purists may argue. I'd fancy the pi imager to do just as good a job as the application I use but I've never tried it. Also your 8GB versus my 4GB difference is unlikely to be an issue. I left my ethernet cable connected throughout so again unlikely to be the problem.

At the core I think is the dongle itself, there does seem to be widespread issues with many of the common ones. I'm sure my process is repeatable and it will be interesting to see how you get on with the Ralink.