[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[James Sumners]

Then maybe Arduino will get an 802.11ac shield at some point (already has
several b/g/n). Or maybe I'll skip all of that shenanigans and go straight
for a http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:08:33PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > I was already thinking of building a router from a Raspberry Pi, and this
> > news just solidifies it. Hopefully there is an 802.11c card available for
> > it that will do monitor mode. If not, maybe soon?
>
> The RPi is a poor choice, because it only has a single USB port that's
> not much of a performer in its own right.  (All user visible ports plus
> the ethernet port are connected via an internal hub)
>
> (I tried to use a RPi as a hotspot for a camper, and the USB performance
>  was so bad the wifi cards kept locking up under even light loads..)
>
>  - Solomon
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