Re: Atheros card with external antenna connector?

Ian Smith <[email protected]> writes:

> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Greg Troxel wrote:
>
>  > http://www.ubnt.com/super_range_cardbus.php4
>  > 
>  > I'm pretty sure these have MMCX, and work basically fine under NetBSD
>  > which has essentially the same driver/hal.  I'm really sure that we
>  > hooked up small external vertical antennas and got well over 100m
>  > range outside.  Beware that the output is closer to 400 mW and looked
>  > a bit unclean at full power, and I was only able to reduce power to
>  > about 30 mW.
>
> Hmm, 30mW or even 100mW is normal spec, 400mW is likely a bit close to
> illegal here, though there's a 200mW CE version, which may do the extra
> European channels too, and with less power consumption .. I'll enquire.
>
> Thanks for the info; I found the .au distributor there and will check
> them out.  So far I've been leaning toward the Proxim/Orinoco cards
> though they're b/g only, and expensive! .. these ones indeed have two
> antenna connectors which (I think) is necessary to do 802.11a.

We did a with one antenna.  The second connector is for diversity; the
card will receive on both and transmit on either.  I don't think it
has anything to do with a, other than that at 5 GHz diversity may be
more helpful.

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