[Klug-general] Wifi drivers

[James Blake]

Do you know what the power output of it is, I am in the market for a new card?

I used to use SMC2532W-Bs (used the Intersil PRISM drivers that are in
practically every kernel now).   These used to pump out 23.5 dBm /
222mW.  The added advantage was that they had two RP-MMCX external
antenna connectors that allowed you to put uni-directional aerials on
there and (literally) pick things up for miles by totally exceeding
the 35.1 dBm legal limit, I think 8 miles was my record with a biquad
dish antenna.  You also used to be able to stun passing pigeons and
seagulls with it.

SMC have replaced this card with the SMC2536W-AG which although it
does 802.11 a, b and g (compared with b only for the 2532W-B) it
doesn't have 802.11n or an external antenna connector.  They have also
reduced the power to 20 dBm / 100 mW (probably at the request of the
RSPCA after finding several pigeons and seagulls unconscious in East
London....).

Jimmy

2009/7/21 Twigathy <twigathy at gmail.com>
>
> I [fairly recently] bought a high-power USB wifi card - made by a
> company called Alfa network. It's *incredible!* picks up wifi networks
> halfway down the street....
>
> Anyway, it uses a realtek chip of some kind, again in the kernel and
> no fussing about needed to get it to work :)
>
> T
>
> On 21/07/2009, MacGyveR <macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk> wrote:
> > Just thought I'd share some troubles I have been having lately:
> >
> > I always buy atheros based wifi cards and in the past have used the madwifi
> > drivers which i have had no problems with:
> >
> > http://madwifi-project.org
> >
> > There are some new drivers which also support alot of the atheros
> > cards "ath5k" and "ath9k" which are now built into the kernel so no need for
> > an external package, I havent got a card that is supported by the ath9k so I
> > cant say anything about that. The ath5k seems to work fine at first, when
> > doing a constant data transfer, the speed is variable and mainly poor, you
> > won't notice this through normal browsing. I also experienced up to 10%
> > packet loss at some times, this all drives you mad if you are using something
> > like X11 forwarding.
> >
> > But going back to using madwifi things operate normally.
> >
> > Also if you can't find a good desktop PCI wifi card, just get a mini-PCI ->
> > PCI adaptor from ebay and stick a laptop one in
> >
> > Hope this helps someone.
> >
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