[Nottingham] The arguments with WiFi continue

Aaron Jackson aaron at aaronsplace.co.uk
Sun May 15 18:33:23 UTC 2016


I don't remember too much from your last thread but did you try a
different wireless card? I've never been particularly impressed with
Intel or Broadcom WiFi adapters. I've always had good performance with
anything containing an Atheros chip, which is pretty much all TP-Link
seem to use.

Aaron

Jason Irwin via Nottingham writes:

> Minor addendum:
> LinSSID is a rather nice scanning tool, and it states that the 2.4GHz and
> 5GHz networks are doing 54Mbps, yet my WiFi card is an Intel "Centrino
> Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]" which is (according to the marketing buff) a
> 300Mbps card. 54Mbps is the limit for 802.11g, but I should be on 802.11n
> (I even forced the router to only allow N devices).
>
> I can't help but shake the feeling I am missing something fundamental, but
> have no clue what it is.
>
> In my simplistic view, if I have a 300Mbps router and a 300Mbp card; I
> should get 300Mbps (or somewhere close to it anyway).
>
> J.
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