TP-Link WN722N or TL-WN821N. Both works very well and supports 802.11s security 
as well. If you are in a rush, micro-center sells them, or else Tiger Direct 
sells them very cheap.

----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:00:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Devel Digest, Vol 8, Issue 25

Send Devel mailing list submissions to
        [email protected]

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
        http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
        [email protected]

You can reach the person managing the list at
        [email protected]

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Devel digest..."


Today's Topics:

   1. Re: Recommend USB WiFi card for use with 802.11s under Linux
      (Alberto Jimenez Pacheco)


----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 11:26:18 +0200
From: Alberto Jimenez Pacheco <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Recommend USB WiFi card for use with 802.11s under Linux
Message-ID:
        <CAAUe17LT-bwGwL1p1joPZKp7Qa=E=E=vl0mg6rndazkuwui...@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

Help, anyone?
Any recommendations for USB wifi cards with good support for 802.11s?

Thanks a lot.
Alberto.


On 25 September 2012 11:34, Alberto Jimenez Pacheco <[email protected]>wrote:

> (Better with a subject)
>
> Hello,
>
> We are quite new to 802.11s. Can anyone recommend at small form factor USB
> WiFi card (dongle) to work with 802.11s?
> With good driver support and that has been intensively tested, showing
> reliable performance under Linux in mesh mode.
> (As a bonus, if it is dual-band, 2.4 and 5 GHz, and can be configured with
> 802.11n, then even better)
> Thanks.
>
> We have gone through the list at
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers and based on that we are
> currently using one model from Fritz! (WLAN USB Stick N, with Atheros
> chipset and driver carl9170) ... but we are not getting very reliable
> performance with 802.11s.
>
> In the past we have done extensive testing with this card in ad-hoc mode,
> and it was offering quite good performance and reliability.
> However, when used in mesh mode with 802.11s, it performs rather poorly:
> we build a mesh with three laptops in close proximity in the same room, so
> all routes are one-hop, everything fine;
> but if we force a two-hop route between two of the nodes using the third
> as relay with
>
> iw dev <devname> mpath set <destination MAC address> next_hop <next hop MAC 
> address>,
> then ping shows a lot of packets lost in a more or less random behaviour.
> Good performance comes back as soon we re-establish the previous one-hop
> route with a similar command.
>
> We do not know whether it is a hardware problem and a different card would
> solve it, or if maybe we are missing something in the configuration.
> Anyone else suffering this problem?
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Alberto.
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: 
<http://lists.open80211s.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20121017/3009be72/attachment-0001.html>

------------------------------

_______________________________________________
Devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel


End of Devel Digest, Vol 8, Issue 25
************************************

_______________________________________________
Devel mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.open80211s.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel

Reply via email to