[Battlemesh] usb wifi dongle

[John Crispin]

On 15/03/2016 12:22, Daniel Golle wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:04:35PM +0100, John Crispin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> bit off-topic but i am scared to ask on one of the owrt lists ...
>>
>> i am in the unfortunate situation where i need to use a usb wifi dongle
>> in AP mode. which chipsets work ? quick search on google yielded
>> RTL8192cu which is scary as it is made by realtek, could this really be
>> the one of choice ?
> 
> I had bad experience with RealTek's chips in AP mode -- aggregation
> stopped working when ever more than one client connected to the AP.
> Even rt2800usb does work much better than that...
> ath9k_htc became rare and expensive, but supposedly works as well.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Daniel


https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Ath9k_htc

there is a ar7010 and a ar9271, is one of them less crappy than the
other or are they on par ?

	John