Forwarding as my phone GMail sends out HTML emails.. -Morten ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Morten W. Petersen <morphex@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 6:04 AM Subject: Re: Best Wi-Fi chipsets for Linux and hostapd? To: Guan Xin <guanx.bac@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hm yes. I have a stationary PC which I use for gaming and sometimes heavy downloads. Adding a Raspberry access point using about 5 metres of Ethernet cable and a Wi-Fi dongle I've cut ping down to 24 ms from 32, and I get a download speed of 25 Mbit/s instead of <1. And this in an apartment complex with about 15 other visible wireless networks. -Morten 27. des. 2016 5.07 a.m. skrev "Guan Xin" <guanx.bac@xxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:42 AM, Morten W. Petersen <morphex@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Price is nice, but it seems there isn't that big of a difference in > > price on Ralink vs Realtek vs Atheros. > > > > As long as it works as an AP and has decent performance, that's most > > important. As cheap as they are, it isn't a big deal in hardware > > costs to replace one if it breaks down. > > As for "break down", Atheros is the only one that causes me trouble > that cannot be easily worked around. It's firmware forbids the use of > channel 13 (only allows channels 1--11 when working on the 2.4GHz > band) while channels 1, 5, and 9 are all occupied by my neighbors. > That's annoying. > > > Guan -- Videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBlogologue Twittering at http://twitter.com/blogologue Blogging at http://blogologue.com Playing music at https://soundcloud.com/morten-w-petersen Also playing music and podcasting here: http://www.mixcloud.com/morten-w-petersen/ On Google+ here https://plus.google.com/107781930037068750156 On Instagram at https://instagram.com/morphexx/ _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
