On 19 May 2017 at 21:05, John Andersen
The current card is a 802.11N Ralink PCI device, vintage 2008. I don't want to spend a lot of money to replace it, so I've sent a question here about RTL8811AU devices. There are cheap USB dongles on ebay and I can wait for the delivery from China, so I just need to know if they will run.
Make sure you have the port needed for these. USB 3 is preferred but USB 2.0 can achieve 60 MB/s.
In house speeds can be rather amazing over 802.11n.
Well, this card appears to be 2.4 GHz only, which is natural for a 2008 card. I am in a housing estate but not apartment block (a row of two-story houses). Wifi Analyzer on my phone can see 2-3 networks other than mine, at -90dbm level; my laptop sometimes notices them too. A network scan in yast only gives my network. So I decided to risk increasing the channel setting on the AP from 20 to 20/40 MHz for the 2.4 GHz network. This has increased the speed, and while it is still somewhat slower than 5 GHz, the difference in actual broadband access is less than 10%. But perhaps this difference is just not worth purchasing a new network card. (I will later try to test without Internet the AP has a USB slot for a flash drive, if I can make it serve a big file we can check the actual speeds of WiFi alone) The bigger question, however, is whether 40 MHz is an appropriate setting, or whether my neighbours might get impacted. Won't set short intervals - in this house I do very much expect multipath to exist. The house is small but has an actual chimney going right through the middle. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik Unless explicitly stated, all opinions in my mail are my own and do not reflect the views of any organization -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org