Dorhea 2PCS VK172 G-Mouse USB GPS Dongle Glonass VK-172 GMouse Receiver USB Navigation Module Compatible with Windows 10/8/7/vista/XP/Raspberry PI Vehicle Aviation Tracker

I almost didn't buy this or any other u-blox7 dongles because of all the negative reviews complaining about the lack of drivers and it not working with Windows 11. I've tested these dongles now on two separate Windows 11 pro systems (MS Surface Pro laptop and a new Mele Quieter 3 mini pc), and they worked perfectly. No drivers were required, on either system the dongles showed up as new COM ports in device manager. Opened up putty serially, 9600 baud using the COM port reported by device manager and you get a stream of NMEA data. Not sure what else people are expecting from a GPS dongle. These just plain work and you can't beat the cost.

These work great, but require good access to the outside sky to detect satellites. Inside my house, the signals are too weak, but after I used a 10 ft USB extension cable to place the dongle near an outside window, my Linux server now sees 12 satellites, with 8 providing a good enough signal to use. You only need a minimum of 3 to accurately triangulate your location.I'm using this dongle to feed hyper-accurate time data to the Network Time Protocol service on my Linux server, so now I have my own personal Stratum 1 NTP network time server, all for the low, low cost of one of these GPS dongles and a long USB extension cable.

These modules won't work well without a USB extension cable. Know this before you buy what you think are simply plug in peripherals. You'll need to get them away from the computer because of the radio interference it causes.

Standard NMEA output so you just need the appropriate software. I used GPS Dashboard on my Mac Studio running macOS 13.5. This uses an older chipset so it's not great at indoor reception, but what do you expect for the price? I'll probably use this unit on one of my Raspberry Pi 4b's.

Ordered this to replace an ageing BU model gps that I have been using with S&T 2013. These have faster acquisition than my old 4800 baud BU.