[ubuntu-za] Proper WiFi dongle for Lucid

[Daniël Louw]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM, josholikestofly at gmail.com <
josholikestofly at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/12/22 Daniël Louw <daniel at dline.co.za>
>
> Morning all
>>
>> My desktop PC at home is connected to the home network via WiFi. Currently
>> I use a Netgear WG 311v3 card.
>> A quick search on the Web will show that this card is notorious to get to
>> work on any Linux distro, and impossible to get to work on Win7 x64 without
>> bypassing serious security features.
>>
>> My machine is located quite far from the access point, so I have trouble
>> with high volume transfers to the backup NAS. At this stage I get a max.
>> transfer rate of 500KB/s (for a 54mbps card!)
>>
>> So I decided to put myself in the market for a new WiFi adapter!
>> I am preferably looking for something USB, so that I can move the dongle
>> around and get it out behind my PC which is between the aerial and the
>> access point.
>> My questions are:
>>
>> * What do you use?
>> * Experiences?
>> * Likes/dislikes?
>> * How well does it mesh with Ubuntu?
>>
>> Thanks very much in advance!
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> Daniël Louw
>> ================================
>> daniel at dline.co.za
>> www.dline.co.za
>> +27 84 2499 299
>> +12 12 347 8305
>> ================================
>>
>>
>
> Hey
>
> A quick search brings this up:
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB
>
> (you can also check out their support, drivers and documentation pages)
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported
>
> Although not sure how up to date the latter link is. Best to check it out
> :)
>
> Would like to hear how things go, as also might be interested in getting a
> wirless usb at some stage.
>
> Cheers
>
> Josh
>
>
>
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>
Thanks for the two links, Josh! The latter link seems up to date, last edit
was 2010/03/13.

I must confess, one of the reasons why I want to get a new adapter is so
that I can buy this badboy:
http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44&pl3_id=161&pd_id=347

<http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44&pl3_id=161&pd_id=347>The
world's smallest USB 802.11G adapter and it's not more than R200!

Anyway thanks for the feedback, please keep on doing so. I will get the new
adapter somewhere early next year, and then I will document my experiences
to you. One of the big things I want to avoid is ndiswrapper (adapter driver
emulator) as the 64bit version is quite buggy and unreliable.


-- 
Regards

Daniël Louw
================================
daniel at dline.co.za
www.dline.co.za
+27 84 2499 299
+12 12 347 8305
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