Atheros 108 Mbit mode

[Sam Leffler]

Michael VInce wrote:
> Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
>> Michael VInce wrote:
>>
>>> Jochen Gensch wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a working 108 Mbit with an Atheros based wireless 
>>>> card?
>>>> I cannot set it up here, even though 54 Mbit cards work fine...
>>>>
>>>> Jochen
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>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>> I bought a 108mbit card hoping it would magically work, it didn't and 
>>> I realized its a bad idea to buy any 108mbit card.
>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure what your point is but I recently verified that static turbo 
>> mode worked and got 52Mb/s for upstream tcp netperf in close proximity 
>> and ~65Mb/s for udp unidirectional traffic.  This is current with the 
>> latest hal but the hal should not matter. Nightly runs of the linux 
>> code with 
> 
> 
> Good to hear you can get 108mbit speeds, the point I was trying to make 
> is that the hassle of buying two of a specific single vendor equipment 
> gear that have made their own home made 108mbit standard isn't worth it 
> for me.
> 
> I suppose if you didn't use your laptop anywhere but at a single place 
> such as just using a laptop only at home and you needed the speed (and 
> your were sure you could reach it) you could buy a set of wireless gear 
> from a single vendor with their own 108mbit standard and hope it works.
> 
> To me I decided its a mistake to try and make my choice of what wireless 
> gear to buy on non standard 802.11 pre-N creation that will only work 
> with 1 single vendor and probably only a single point in time in their 
> product line.

You said: "I bought a 108mbit card hoping it would magically work, it 
didn't".  I said: it works for me.

Anyone that cares about interoperability beyond 54Mb/s will wait for 11n 
products.

	Sam