From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 17:53:11 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 42EB61065672 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 17:53:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 032318FC19 for ; Wed, 26 May 2010 17:53:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 3975 invoked by uid 60001); 26 May 2010 17:53:10 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1274896390; bh=sGoW9XJcBj6Iz3Asm3N2TrQP/L/+KTq1t0P1PaHZWZU=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TT7Z7KtnjfTD+GjIRPMK0j6KjqYWqB5SALhXCsNkxHa/ajaU7FNiv7Ll8Q+budxYHH2i1DU6yhn8k0pCP4oCveAqFu/myX7Id9UGfTh0X3xcWY38jckn4mGgmC4QFYWSbeIE/DoZrQkA8U0D0omUOrqxIflPs2vfCYgSNCvcNL0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=SUN9pDbBQjkfyEkkMR8yQ+FCP3L2Ec/d+mtMOTOTkYdVRnvxTzukGk2L/qrdOIjSZJ6bYRwkHboxO6M/nBj34979GoHvT8EFfHEboxR05WG45ELy5xyt8RD6LSqN4gmOi6zXkRZWHlqN6DcsOKCThIar9dcz2VBVsYjq+yYdOU0=; Message-ID: <464485.1613.qm@web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: _LiNG98VM1kW5T7Gjb0YAQrblKvDixrx13TIOuxEMeYnljX oTH2hLvjOyG79fyIf25QmG9TEG.y9ipjwPoiRHewp07eiCe4JZzvbdgozOgC 3CJBryoMJbTBHUjeUXo5iBPlYeo3lcFXjSQRadTkWIr28Q7Ogtbt.7qjWadV Ijgh2CT1qGmCuuA62TjIMxmYeWXgbRG9PYaOa1IZ5paqoHTsIQR2QI7qEScp ZmA4Vfw.nc1D04B_8gxDIAmUgtEAiJX2VUX89ET2ZBVGxzt1mDtpkoeVsD_1 hKa0_raQ- Received: from [98.242.237.166] by web36502.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 26 May 2010 10:53:10 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/11.0.8 YahooMailWebService/0.8.103.269680 Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 10:53:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 17:53:11 -0000 Several months ago I installed a Sabarent Wireless-G NIC using FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE. It took some reading about wpa_supplicant but I got it working both and a wireless node and a wireless access point for my laptop computers. While it worked I can't say it worked well. Sometimes the laptop would take 3-4 minutes before connecting. Sometimes it wouldn't connect at all. Most of the time it did connect but when it did the transfer rate was slow, slow, slow. It was so unpredictable and slow I redeployed my D-Link wireless router because it still just works very reliably and there seems to be no bottleneck on the speed. Wish this were not the case because I like using my FreeBSD servers. But right now this D-Link wireless router has been running 24/7 for almost 4 months without interruption. Can't argue with results like this.