[Klug-general] Wifi drivers

[Twigathy]

It claims 500mW TX power and has a screw-in R-SMA antenna which I
guess you could replace if you wanted. I've yet to fry any small
animals with it ;)

http://dplanet.biz/alfa.com/product_info.php?products_id=377 has a datasheet

T

2009/7/21 James Blake <jimmyblake at gmail.com>:
> 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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