On 15 July 2011, at 04:18, Grant wrote: > ... > Thanks, I went with a Ubiquiti SR71-E (ath9k) and miniPCIe->PCIe > adapter. miniPCIe cards seem to be the only well-supported ones with > a really full feature set.
The market for miniPCIe wifi cards is surely much *much* larger than for full-sized PCIe ones. Every new laptop needs a wifi card, and that'll be miniPCIe. If someone is adding wifi to their desktop, then they'll probably use a USB NIC. When the manufacturer is already making lots of miniPCIe cards, what's the point of making full-sized PCIe cards, which will hardly sell? Especially when they're the same bus with a different form-factor, and a "convertor card" like you've bought can be bought or manufactured cheaply. Stroller.
