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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:38:24 -1000
From:      David Cornejo <dave@dogwood.com>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Raspberry Pi as portable WAP / hotspot
Message-ID:  <CAFnjQbtM5yQRUJT92H2yBq9JsWTU5gPTKpn9YsBNsZYW1iDCuw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm looking into setting up a Raspberry Pi as a portable hot-spot.
>
> The idea is to rent / buy a USB air card, and use that as the internet
> access.  Then the unit will supply wifi for phone, tablet, printer=85
>
> Or would it make more sense to use a purpose built airplay unit from the
> same ISP=85 Probably=85
>
> --
> Dan Langille - http://langille.org
>
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I've been underwhelmed by the performance of my Raspberry Pi w/FreeBSD -
WiFi and the Broadband adapter both run over USB and that seems to be a
bottleneck.  I ended up buying a mobile hotspot which probably cost me less
than my rpi after case, power, cabling, usb broadband adapter, SD card, etc=
.

Building your own does have a certain appeal though...

dave c



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