On 11/22/2013 07:02 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > Am 22.11.2013 16:00, schrieb Ben Greear: >> On 11/22/2013 06:47 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote: >>> Am 22.11.2013 15:40, schrieb Ben Greear: >>>> On 11/22/2013 02:23 AM, Oleksij Rempel wrote: >>>>> Am 20.11.2013 20:01, schrieb Gustavo Azambuja: >>>>>> Ben, thanks for you reply. >>>>>> I need to convert my rPi into a AP (is not an option a "real" AP) to >>>>>> get at less 30 stations. You know some way to get a list of >>>>>> devices/drivers can support this? >>>>> >>>>> It's all about USB, RAM and power. >>>>> If you use usb to communicate with wireless hardware, then your first >>>>> problem is usb - it is too slow! Some times it is too slow even for one >>>>> connection. This is why we have usb wifi adapters with internal cpu, >>>>> ram >>>>> and firmware (micro operation system). If you wont to add more >>>>> connections you will need more ram and may be more cpu power. This will >>>>> need more power from usb, which is limited to 500mA. >>>>> In this case, just take some AP, connect it over ethernet and you will >>>>> get same result. >>>> >>>> The RAM is certainly an issue, but just adding more stations should not >>>> have much CPU impact as the total throughput is unlikely to increase >>>> as more stations are added. >>>> >>>> Changing software to make better use of RAM is also unlikely to increase >>>> power usage, though adding more RAM to the hardware might. >>> >>> patches are welcome >> >> I'm sure :) >> >> My customers are all interested in /AC these days, so I'm putting my >> effort there. If/when someone opens an /AC firmware to the public >> I will be all over it! > > AC? > >
802.11 ac, for instance ath10k. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <gree...@candelatech.com> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
