802.11g cards/2 questions

[Vincent Poy]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Sam Leffler wrote:

> > Actually, I don't think the Turbo mode is currently working. See the
> > following post from the ath(4) driver's author on Sep 17th 2003:
> >
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/30211/match=turbo
>
> 11a+turbo mode works though I haven't seen a performance difference from
> 11a (for reasons unknown to me; could be my config--Atheros says they see
> 2x the throughput).  I haven't added in 108g support yet (11g+turbo); it
> probably requires some tweaking of the HAL (the binary component) so won't
> happen for a bit (at the least until I can get an AP that supports it to
> test with).
>
> 	Sam

	Sam, which AP or Router were you using?  From what I understand,
the 108Mbps requires the card talk to both 54Mbps radios on the AP/Router
to get the 108Mbps as it gets 54Mbps from each one.  I don't think any AP
supports the 108Mbps mode yet as the only announcements I've seen are on
Atheros's website on Netgear and D-Link AP/Routers and it seems the
108Mbps support will be available as firmware upgrades as well as driver
updates sometime this month:

http://www.netgear.com/pressroom/press_releasesdetail.asp?id=145

http://www.atheros.com/news/DLink_product.html


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