Re: Atheros card with external antenna connector?

David Gilbert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Greg" == Greg Troxel <[email protected]> writes:

Greg> http://www.ubnt.com/super_range_cardbus.php4 I'm pretty sure
Greg> these have MMCX, and work basically fine under NetBSD which has
Greg> essentially the same driver/hal.  I'm really sure that we hooked
Greg> up small external vertical antennas and got well over 100m range
Greg> outside.  Beware that the output is closer to 400 mW and looked
Greg> a bit unclean at full power, and I was only able to reduce power
Greg> to about 30 mW.

I have used this card with 6.[012] and it performs very well.  With a
12dB rubber duck, I've been able to link up to access points several
city blocks away.

Curiously, in close quarters, where my laptops internal (Intel a/b/g)
wireless links up, the super range card doesn't really provide any
better signal or speed... but at much larger distances it still
provides good performance.

Dave.

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