On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Gregory wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alex Pilon <a...@alexpilon.ca> wrote:
> > Has anyone tried making their
> > own wireless AP in such a manner before? Has anyone ever had issues with
> > it, other than the usual issues that Wi-Fi has (like latency).
>
> I am using two USB wifi adapters to turn an old laptop into an AP. Hostapd
> and the USB devices have been working without issue. (Apart from the usual
> WiFi problems.) My only complaint is that I am not sure if 802.11N is
> working. I am using two ALFA AWUS050NH. (Ralink RT2770) One is on 2.4GHz,
> the other on 5GHz. I had a similar setup with a low powered ARM based
> Guruplug. The USB adapters worked fine but I needed a powered hub. If you
> have problems with the Soekris add a powered USB hub before you go too
> crazy trying to get it to work.
I was having some very strange bandwidth issues with my ISP a couple of
years ago, so I swapped out my WRT54GL running OpenWRT for an x86_64
machine running Debian with a PCI 802.11b card so I could use standard
tools I knew well to monitor and filter certain types of traffic easily,
quickly and reliably. It helped a huge amount. I was running hostapd.
I'm now ready to go back to an embedded device and will use a Netgear
WNDR3800 running CeroWRT.
> sg
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