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Yeah, I have FreeBSD on my laptop with iwm(4) also. 11a speeds are enough for the usual web surfing and stuff. When I need the speed (system upgrades mostly) I

Yeah, I have FreeBSD on my laptop with iwm(4) also. 11a speeds are enough for the usual web surfing and stuff. When I need the speed (system upgrades mostly) I just plug in the cable. I have link aggregation set up with wifi and ethernet so the handover is seamless.

knorker 9y ago
I'm very happy with my decision to not provide wired network all over my house after I moved. Good Wifi is really nice in that it decouples speed from location. Even with 802.11ad (that I don't have) there's a huge difference between having to plug in when you reach a "fast area" and not having to.
- zdw 9y ago
  I'm very happy with my decision to replace every multi-lane highway around my house with a congested single lane dirt road with half the speed limit.
  - knorker 9y ago
    Your analogy seems far fetched to me. Going wired->wifi is like going desktop->laptop. I'll admit to being slow to go to both laptop and wifi years ago, but at least to me they're clearly superior.
pedrocr 9y ago
That used to be my solution in the b/g times. These days it has gotten to the point that unless I'm doing something extremely heavy like transfer TBs between machines the added advantage of not having to bother with a fixed location for the laptop and extra wiring compensates for the slower speed. And that's with simple wifi setups with a single good AP. I'm sure the line is even further pushed out if you've designed a multiple AP setup with good coverage and low interference.
- reitanqild 9y ago
  I have what was supposed to be a very good ap/router. Still I think it is awful. I hear it is because the spectrum is jammed but I almost cannot believe it: I have a big garden and so have my neighbours. What do you guys do to get fast, stable wireless?
  - hedora 9y ago
    I bought a Ubiquiti UAP-Pro access point. It is maginally faster than the fastest consumer access point / router, but substantially cheaper and more reliable. The ubquiti has a spectrum survey mode that will tell you what sort of interference it sees on each channel. It takes 10's of minutes to run, and seems pretty thorough. The real winning feature is that it is designed to be ceiling mounted, so I could place it in the center of my house, a few feet away from the nearest wall. There is also a mesh mode, where you buy more than one. If your house is big, and interference isn't the problem, that might help. I haven't tried it. They have newer / different models that do a better job of this than the UAP-Pro. Later, I replaced my router with a pc engines apu2 running openbsd. Ubiquiti has a highly recommended cheap router (edgerouter lite) that works out of the box, if you aren't looking for a hobby project. People have gotten openbsd to run on it too.
  - floatboth 9y ago
    Use 5ghz instead of 2.4? I have zero neighbors on 5ghz, my network is the only one my phone sees :D
eriknstr 9y ago
Could you share your configuration for link aggregation? I did it for a while but if I remember correctly, while plugging the cable into my laptop worked as expected I think that in order to get connected to wifi again after unplugging the cable, I had to manually service restart netif lagg0 And sometimes also service restart dhclient lagg0 But it might also be that I was to impatient and that it would have reconnected to wifi by itself if I gave it more time. How long does yours take to get back on wifi?

knorker 9y ago

I'm very happy with my decision to not provide wired network all over my house after I moved. Good Wifi is really nice in that it decouples speed from location. Even with 802.11ad (that I don't have) there's a huge difference between having to plug in when you reach a "fast area" and not having to.

zdw 9y ago
I'm very happy with my decision to replace every multi-lane highway around my house with a congested single lane dirt road with half the speed limit.
- knorker 9y ago
  Your analogy seems far fetched to me. Going wired->wifi is like going desktop->laptop. I'll admit to being slow to go to both laptop and wifi years ago, but at least to me they're clearly superior.

pedrocr 9y ago

That used to be my solution in the b/g times. These days it has gotten to the point that unless I'm doing something extremely heavy like transfer TBs between machines the added advantage of not having to bother with a fixed location for the laptop and extra wiring compensates for the slower speed. And that's with simple wifi setups with a single good AP. I'm sure the line is even further pushed out if you've designed a multiple AP setup with good coverage and low interference.

reitanqild 9y ago
I have what was supposed to be a very good ap/router. Still I think it is awful. I hear it is because the spectrum is jammed but I almost cannot believe it: I have a big garden and so have my neighbours. What do you guys do to get fast, stable wireless?
- hedora 9y ago
  I bought a Ubiquiti UAP-Pro access point. It is maginally faster than the fastest consumer access point / router, but substantially cheaper and more reliable. The ubquiti has a spectrum survey mode that will tell you what sort of interference it sees on each channel. It takes 10's of minutes to run, and seems pretty thorough. The real winning feature is that it is designed to be ceiling mounted, so I could place it in the center of my house, a few feet away from the nearest wall. There is also a mesh mode, where you buy more than one. If your house is big, and interference isn't the problem, that might help. I haven't tried it. They have newer / different models that do a better job of this than the UAP-Pro. Later, I replaced my router with a pc engines apu2 running openbsd. Ubiquiti has a highly recommended cheap router (edgerouter lite) that works out of the box, if you aren't looking for a hobby project. People have gotten openbsd to run on it too.
- floatboth 9y ago
  Use 5ghz instead of 2.4? I have zero neighbors on 5ghz, my network is the only one my phone sees :D

eriknstr 9y ago

Could you share your configuration for link aggregation? I did it for a while but if I remember correctly, while plugging the cable into my laptop worked as expected I think that in order to get connected to wifi again after unplugging the cable, I had to manually service restart netif lagg0 And sometimes also service restart dhclient lagg0 But it might also be that I was to impatient and that it would have reconnected to wifi by itself if I gave it more time. How long does yours take to get back on wifi?