wireless serer card that can handle multi-users

[Yuri Lukin]

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. 

Yuri