On Tuesday 14 June 2011 15:45:28 ShawnG wrote:
> I have been seeing strange stuff with the DWA-160 ver A2. Can you recommend
> another USB Wifi stick to replace ?
Depends. I've to say that I'm slightly biased towards Atheros products.
Although, Ralink and Realtek have interesting products as well.
So, if you don't need 5GHz then I would go with a ath9k_htc device
like: TL-WN821N *V3* [Note: V3 is important, because previous
versions are based on AR9170, however they stopped making them
some time ago [6-7 months?], so it should be safe to assume they've
disappeared from retail stores by now.]
if you do need 5GHz, then it might be a good idea to ask:
George Nychis <[email protected]>
He has done some testing with several 5GHz capable ath9k_htc devices
from different vendors and might know which are well suited.
Regards,
Chr
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Christian Lamparter
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 June 2011 15:45:28 ShawnG wrote:
>> I have been seeing strange stuff with the DWA-160 ver A2. Can you recommend
>> another USB Wifi stick to replace ?
> Depends. I've to say that I'm slightly biased towards Atheros products.
> Although, Ralink and Realtek have interesting products as well.
>
> So, if you don't need 5GHz then I would go with a ath9k_htc device
> like: TL-WN821N *V3* [Note: V3 is important, because previous
> versions are based on AR9170, however they stopped making them
> some time ago [6-7 months?], so it should be safe to assume they've
> disappeared from retail stores by now.]
>
> if you do need 5GHz, then it might be a good idea to ask:
> George Nychis <[email protected]>
>
> He has done some testing with several 5GHz capable ath9k_htc devices
> from different vendors and might know which are well suited.
I asked Geoprge Nychis and got a reply.
He recommends http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Sony_UWA-BR100 which has
AR7010 + AR9280 chipset. Almost the same as TL-WN821N v3 but
secondary chip is a little different as the TP-Link has AR9287.
Found them on Amazon for $75. I don't know if these works
out-of-the-box or that maybe you have to edit the source a little bit
to get the IDs supported? Well doesn't really matter for me, easy to
fix.
Rgds//Thomas
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Thomas Novin <[email protected]> wrote:
> He recommends http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Sony_UWA-BR100 which has
> AR7010 + AR9280 chipset. Almost the same as ?TL-WN821N v3 but
> secondary chip is a little different as the TP-Link has AR9287.
>
> Found them on Amazon for $75. I don't know if these works
> out-of-the-box or that maybe you have to edit the source a little bit
> to get the IDs supported? Well doesn't really matter for me, easy to
> fix.
I didn't get the UWA-BR100 with Atheros chip but instead with Ralink
chip. There are (at least) two versions of it.
http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Talk:Sony_UWA-BR100
http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Buffalo_WLI-UC-AG300N
Maybe TP-Link TL-WN821Nv3 is a better choice.
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc/devices
Rgds
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Thomas Novin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't get the UWA-BR100 with Atheros chip but instead with Ralink
> chip. There are (at least) two versions of it.
>
> http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Talk:Sony_UWA-BR100
> http://www.wikidevi.com/wiki/Buffalo_WLI-UC-AG300N
>
> Maybe TP-Link TL-WN821Nv3 is a better choice.
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc/devices
Actually, I got the one with Atheros (if there even is one with
Ralink, I think that might just be a mixup with USB IDs). Some
confusing info on wikidevi.com lead me wrong.
It doesn't work out-of-the-box with compat-wireless but I think it
will soon. I subscribed to the ath9k-devel mailinglist and got help
with a patch to the source of ath9k_htc. After a little fix, the
driver works with UWA-BR100.
Discussion + patch here:
https://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/2011-June/006441.html
Rgds//Thomas
Ps. I get about 60-80Mbps upstream and 50Mbps downstream connected to
my Ubiquiti Power AP-N w/ 20MHz channel width.