Looking for a Wireless NIC with 802.11ac or 802.11n support

[Adam Vande More]

On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 10:02 PM, Victor Sudakov <vas at mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I'm looking for an internal Wi-Fi NIC with support for
>
> 1. 802.11n or better 802.11ac
> 2. HOSTAP mode
> 3. 5 GHz band (better both 2GHz and 5GHz).
>
> for an AP running FreeBSD.
>
> A USB NIC would do too, but a PCI-E is preferable.
>
> Could you please advise a good one?
>
> I've been told that I have a rather narrow choice between ath(4),
> mwl(4) and ral(4) NICs. Is that correct?
>
>
I have a later model ath and it works well for 2 and 5 Ghz.  My iwm which
supposedly supports 5 GHz doesn't work there but is okay at 2.

I have no experience with HOSTAP mode.

-- 
Adam