On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 10:24:10PM -0400, Stephen Gregory wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alex Pilon <alp [ at ] alexpilon [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > Has anyone tried making their > > own wireless AP in such a manner before? Has anyone ever had issues with > > it, other than the usual issues that Wi-Fi has (like latency). > > I am using two USB wifi adapters to turn an old laptop into an AP. Hostapd > and the USB devices have been working without issue. (Apart from the usual > WiFi problems.) My only complaint is that I am not sure if 802.11N is > working. I am using two ALFA AWUS050NH. (Ralink RT2770) One is on 2.4GHz, > the other on 5GHz. I had a similar setup with a low powered ARM based > Guruplug. The USB adapters worked fine but I needed a powered hub. If you > have problems with the Soekris add a powered USB hub before you go too > crazy trying to get it to work. I was having some very strange bandwidth issues with my ISP a couple of years ago, so I swapped out my WRT54GL running OpenWRT for an x86_64 machine running Debian with a PCI 802.11b card so I could use standard tools I knew well to monitor and filter certain types of traffic easily, quickly and reliably. It helped a huge amount. I was running hostapd. I'm now ready to go back to an embedded device and will use a Netgear WNDR3800 running CeroWRT. > sg slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________