Re: Which wireless card?

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Jay Lee wrote:

Sasa Stupar wrote:

I am thinking to move my server (FC3) from the office room to a basement and to connect it via wireless network. I am just wondering which PCI cards (or USB) works well under FC3 and are not very complicated to setup? I have a Netgear wi-fi router WGT624GR.


I really wouldn't suggest this. Wireless is great but at it's best it's not going to be as reliable and fast as good ol' CAT5. At it's worst, you'll get dropped server connections, poor performance, data corruption, lots of bad things. Put your wireless AP|router in the basement and the server right next to it, connection via CAT5. As far as card recommendations, Atheros based chips work pretty well with the madwifi driver.

I can't move my router into basement since I don't have a line there so that's why I wanted to use wireless. I really don't need speed of CAT5 (100Mbit) but this router can manage up to 108 Mbit link (if you are close enough) and my distance will be 10 meters with two brick walls so I think it shouldn't drop link to less than 54 Mbit.
Atheros based chips - well if I by card over internet I really don't know if it has this kind of chips since this is not advertised in the selling leaflet.


Sasa


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