From AR9160 to AR9340/AR9582

[Adrian Chadd]

hi,

a lot of it has to do with what the manufacturer attaches to the chip.

The chip itself may only be able to put out 18dBm at the lowest transmit
rate and significantly less (12-14dBm) at the highest transmit rate. The
manufacturer may then opt to add extra output amplifiers :)

(Also, I'm doing the FreeBSD port to the AR9340 now, in my spare time.
Watch this space!)



-adrian



On 6 October 2013 01:53, Sven Hazejager <sven at hazejager.nl> wrote:

> Does anyone know enough about the various Atheros devices to tell me the
> differences between various radios, output power, sensitivity and expected
> range?
>
> For various reasons, I am thinking of replacing my present FreeBSD ALIX
> router by a COTS OpenWRT router such as the TP-Link WDR3600.
>
> Current hardware is a WNC DNMA-83 AR9160 chipset and I'm only using 2.4GHz.
>
> The TP-Link has a AR9340 for 2.4GHz and a AR9582 for 5GHz. I read somewhere
> that it seems to be capped at 63 mW / 18 dBm (for 5GHz at least)... I
> wonder if this is better or worse than my current setup.
>
> Thanks for any insights!
>
> Sven
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