[mythtv-users] OT: Recommendation for a WLAN PCI card (UK-based)

[Fedor Pikus]

On 9/5/05, Nick <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Having built another backend for some spares and some new capture
> cards, I want to get it accessible via WiFi on my network (g-based).
> 
> Could any UK-based users (anyone else is more than free to join in
> though) suggest any decent PCI wireless network cards, that use native
> drivers (not ndis-wrapper) that they can report work well. There seem
> to a a lot of madwifi supported cards, which would you suggest?


I'd recommend NOT using a PCI wireless network card at all, but an external 
device instead. The easiest to configure by far is an ethernet-to-wireless 
bridge. You configure regular ethernet, plug it into the bridge instead of 
the switch (or into the switch, and the uplink of the switch into the bridge 
if you want to connect several computers by wire and then all of them to 
wireless). The next best thing is USB wireless, but I don't know if any 11g 
adapters are supported by Linux, I only tried 11b. The problem with the PCI 
card is that the antenna is very close to the backplane of the case and is 
nicely shielded. You can get external antennas, but then you'd pay more than 
the cost of a USB or an Ethernet wireless device, and it does not work any 
better.

Fedor

I get a very good connection in the house with my intel-2200 based
> laptop under RHEL4, so soemthing similar that would allow 1-2 streams
> to be transmitted would be ideal.
> 
> The alternative is to use a wired->wireless bridge to do the dirty
> work, and just stick a NIC in the box, but the bridges cost more than
> my router/AP did ...
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
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