I'm planning on cancelling my home internet, so I could instead use my phone. It's way cheaper for me. So after trying out various casting devices that didn't work for me, I thought this one would be perfect because they claim you don't need WiFi, and some of the reviews mention that as well. I mean, you need WiFi to set up the dongle, but that's understandable I suppose. Maybe it needs an initial update or something. After I got it working, it worked quite well, although the picture was less than stellar. Setup was fairly straightforward. So if you aren't relying solely on your phone for Internet, and you only need a decent cheap casting device, then this will do the trick.
But anyway I decided to really test it out once I had everything hooked up properly. So I turned OFF my router (to see how it would work once I cancel my home internet) and lol and behold, the dongle stopped working. It would still register as being connected to my phone, and my phone could still find the device in my screen casting app, but I could not connect at all. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, or I'm missing some information. But it seems to me that this dongle will not work unless it is connected to your WiFi. I'm open to ideas on what I might be doing wrong, but I'm going to return this and try to find some way to mirror my phone screen that actually doesn't use WiFi.
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