From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 6 09:01:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9961B2A0 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 09:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sven@hazejager.nl) Received: from mail-qa0-f41.google.com (mail-qa0-f41.google.com [209.85.216.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5E4FB2F73 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 09:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id ii20so2218072qab.7 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 02:01:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=ysYsX2/O4aEzBr+zKDA5qNL5KYnFHGocdUK8lXaPlmI=; b=BTCqQXGqOOoKf6+ck1ZONV+MrLz+oDHnSLTjLFq6sGxNEacSqBAwGKWbLbT65qnxor rd2u9PSsc6SHC9dpRDib6pljhlnIRCNT+6JbXuhw/LCmNfhDftQt0L0k+rL8XWYeKq4+ 8WCiYcnsDD192SO9211HtxVZE528yfk4zTSMyTV4zhWhLoLFu4emmle9CObDVVp0NGQo 20RL1k+tutK/R/9YEfqmI21slfhbnN1XllP9R7GKsuQoWRH4d3Lf+0ZSLm+K0mcpjLsl 5UwcrE2K6JOxbRopHcK16MXoPf9YpFZQjKziEf03VwP+GoldtxgM7R5nA9NAHwCMe1JB y4tA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn9l7Z+LgSvw20k8/Cyb//uLsBDD9T2ZFjAPX+0U8x8tC1+iblryA8JOYZMJfLMNGA0WCVD MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.89.73 with SMTP id d9mr20284944qam.5.1381049597969; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:53:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.118.2 with HTTP; Sun, 6 Oct 2013 01:53:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [212.123.177.47] Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:53:17 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: From AR9160 to AR9340/AR9582 From: Sven Hazejager To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 09:01:27 -0000 Does anyone know enough about the various Atheros devices to tell me the differences between various radios, output power, sensitivity and expected range? For various reasons, I am thinking of replacing my present FreeBSD ALIX router by a COTS OpenWRT router such as the TP-Link WDR3600. Current hardware is a WNC DNMA-83 AR9160 chipset and I'm only using 2.4GHz. The TP-Link has a AR9340 for 2.4GHz and a AR9582 for 5GHz. I read somewhere that it seems to be capped at 63 mW / 18 dBm (for 5GHz at least)... I wonder if this is better or worse than my current setup. Thanks for any insights! Sven