wireless serer card that can handle multi-users

[Sam Wun]

On 3/10/07, Yuri Lukin <lists at swaggi.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:10:45 +1100, Sam Wun wrote
> > Hi,
> >
> > About half year ago, I tested a mini wireless server card with
> > FreeBSD 6. The connection runs very fast if only myself using it,
> >  but when there are more than 1 user connected to it, the second
> > user will suffer extremely slow wireless network connection. My
> > colleague also told me he also experienced that problem for his
> > clients. So he purchased a cheap  D-Link Wireless access point for
> > his client rather than bundle the wireless access point
> > (card) in the freebsd router box.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me which wifi server card don't have that problem
> > when configured with freebsd?
>
> Assuming that you're talking about MiniPCI cards, you can use any based on
> the
> Atheros chipset. I believe most if not all currently shipping Atheros
> cards
> are supported in FreeBSD 6.2. I have personally been using Wistron CM9 for
> nearly a year now. As far as the problem you described, you could have
> been
> running mixed b/g mode causing protection bit to be set which effectively
> reduces the throughput of your wireless LAN.


Hi, thanks for the information. I have logged on to the freebsd router have
a look at its wifi setup in rc.conf, but I don't think it is configured as
b/g combination mode. I don't have a login to this router at the moment, so
I can't post the content of the rc.conf file here. Do you mind post your
wifi configuration here or send it to my email?

Thanks
Sam

Yuri
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