USB adapters for mesh

[Brian DeLacey]

Hi Sameer,
I went through a long, trying process to find USB adapters that worked.
Honestly, I think it was the most difficult aspect of getting up and running
with mesh. I encountered many instances just as you describe and returned
many adapters that did not work.

I've settled on Edimax model EW-7318Ug. The device has a Ralink chipset -
and there is a general spirit of Edimax supporting the open source
community. I've successfully used these adapters in many different kinds of
machines - notebooks, netbooks, desktops, clusters, and with USB hub
connectors. (I've been using the newest Wireless LAN drivers with Ubuntu.
There is quite a bit of ongoing development around drivers and mesh.)

The Edimax EW-7318Ug adapter is readily available and affordably priced,
such as through
NewEgg<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833315067&Tpk=EW-7318Ug>.
From
my experience working with these, I'm quite happy with them and I would say
they are the quintessential "safe bet."

Brian


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was going to buy six USB adapters to set up a mesh in my class.
>
> What recommendations can the list make? I've seen the supported
> drivers table, but given the notorious nature of vendors switching
> chipsets while keeping the labeling the same, I wanted to find out
> some safe bets.
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
> _______________________________________________
> Devel mailing list
> Devel at lists.open80211s.org
> http://open80211s.com/mailman/listinfo/devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://open80211s.com/pipermail/devel/attachments/20090319/7e7897e8/attachment.html