recommended 802.11n adapter to buy as AP on 10.0-R

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Tue Aug 12 08:59:28 UTC 2014


Anything Atheros, that is PCIe and isn't the 11ac NIC.

I recommend AR9280 or later. So, AR9287 for 2 antenna, AR9285 for one
antenna, or AR9380 for 3 antennas. (Or anything AR93xx, AR94xx, AR95xx
will be fine.)

-a


On 11 August 2014 23:45, Peter Lai <cowbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking to get a new wifi adapter which will be plugged into an
> Atom D2550 board, so it can be either pci-e x1 or usb3.
>
> The adapter needs to run as a single access point to support phones
> and tablets (iphone 4S only does n at 2.4ghz though). The box is
> running FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p7 amd64.
>
> Can anyone throw out some least-hassle favorite cards for me to consider?
>
> Thanks
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