Recommended 802.11G network card for deployment?
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Hi,
I'm planning on deploying a small pfSense box to sit on a 35MB connection. I'm also trying to get a wireless NIC so I don't have to buy a AP.
Here's what I'm looking for:
- PCI connection
- Take as many cycles off of the CPU as possible. I'm running OpenVPN and Snort, so I want the CPU to have as many spare cycles as possible.
- As powerful as possible and/or a beefy antenna. I have a lot of noise on the 2.4GHZ channels where I'm deploying the box. I want to be able to punch through as much of that as possible. I can't use 802.11A and as far as I can tell 802.11N support isn't there yet.
Thanks!
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I use a lot of these:
http://pcengines.ch/wlm54sag23.htm
http://pcengines.ch/wlm54g23.htm
(with a support and without)
However they are in miniPCI format.
If they have to go into a PCI slot i use this adaptor:
http://pcengines.ch/mpci1b.htmFor antennas:
This pigtail: http://pcengines.ch/pigsma.htm
with this antenna: http://pcengines.ch/antsma5.htm
For a normal local accesspointFor directional antennas i usually use patchantennas from "Huber & Suhner" (they are not quite cheap, but very good), ranging from 7dBi to 20 dBi.
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Any normal PCI cards instead of getting the mini PCI and an adaptor?
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If you can find one with Atheros or Ralink chipset it should be OK.
I don't know the model but at one point I had a Linksys card that was really a Ralink card and it seemed OK as an AP, though I didn't use it for anything more than testing.