end of a 10m powered USB2 cable. Attached to it is a high gain omni
(10dBi, a figure I don't believe). There is about 1v drop up the cable so
I am feeding 8V up to the WiFi dongle via the modified USB2 cable where a 5V
regulator then provides the correct voltage to power both the dongle and the 4 port
USB2 FE1.1s hub chip which is in the end of the 'active' cable.
This is a bit of fun as I am not expecting to be able to MESH with anyone
other than with my Linksys WRT54GL but .....
I picked-up an RTL8191S dongle (branded IOGear) for $20 USD to go to a Ubuntu linux box I put together from some junk parts. I have a Dell Inspiron PC that (Ubuntu) I use as my main desktop and always get only my wireless emitters, no farther. This 8191 is hot. I plugged it in and I can see much farther, even at ground level indoors. FYI
ReplyDeleteHi Steve, there does seem to be a huge variation in the performance of
ReplyDeletedifferent chipsets. Finding a chipset that is supported by the current
PI Kernel and does infrastructure mode can be difficult. I tried 3
different chipsets before I found one that worked OK.
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