From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 01:37:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF97E106566C for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 01:37:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-announce@chthonic.com) Received: from chanas.pair.com (chanas.pair.com [209.68.2.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 737148FC14 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 01:37:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 73530 invoked by uid 3329); 26 May 2010 01:37:12 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:37:12 -0400 From: "J. Altman" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100526013712.GA67116@chanas.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Subject: Wireless cards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "J. Altman" List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 01:37:13 -0000 Greetings... uname -a FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat May 15 11:47:55 EDT 2010 root@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 My Netgear WG311T, with an Atheros chipset, seems to be at its end. The box is about thirty feet from the WAP, almost directly in line through an open door: --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 27 packets transmitted, 21 packets received, 22.2% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.811/9.526/35.551/8.051 ms I see this: dmesg | grep "wlan0: link state changed to" | wc 9 54 296 Where "up" or "down" follows "to" for a box with this uptime: up 2:04 Over several days, this can occur hundreds of times; and often, ifconfig shows this: DS/1 Mbps or similar; then it will bounce back to OFDM; bounce around between OFDM bandwidths: then eventually fall to DS. This is suboptimal. So: what are people using these days? The WG311T is old. I've had no luck looking for a modern card using an Atheros chip. I don't care who makes it; whether it's Atheros or not; nor if it is PCI or PCI-X. I just want it to work. Thanks for any recommendations; and best regards, Joe