On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'll need an 802.11n PCI-E card that does 300Mbps and works in AP mode > for the router. Does anyone know of such a card? I've read that > these 300 Mbps cards use Realtek chips and don't work in AP mode > although that info could be outdated:
Check out the table here: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers It will let you see which drivers have AP support as well as 802.11n support. There are a couple others with some AP support, but basically an ath9k-supported chipset is your only choice at the moment for a mature AP mode, as far as I know. > This one is said to be an Atheros chip so it should have better > support but it only goes to 150Mbps: Without the 5 GHz band I doubt you'd ever see above 150Mbps anyway. It's more of a theoretical max for 2.4 GHz but I wouldn't expect to see it actually happen, unless you live in a land without wireless interference. :) My AP and all clients claim to support 300Mbps but I've never seen it with my own eyes. I don't notice much of a speed difference at all between the 802.11g turbo modes (108 Mbps+) and 802.11n in my house. Both are noticeably faster than plain old 54Mbit 802.11g, though.
