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I'm a huge fan of Alfa gear, for a long time. They do an amazingly good job. AWUS036ACH is one of Alfa's most up to date USB cards. It is, however based off an
by rektide 5y ago
I'm a huge fan of Alfa gear, for a long time. They do an amazingly good job.
AWUS036ACH is one of Alfa's most up to date USB cards. It is, however based off an RTL8812AU chipset[1], which is 8 years old now[2]. I'd love at least to have a good client chipset & equipment that supports WiFi6 that has good RF performance. I still think the market is overly structured & segmented. No one makes AP-class chips for USB, but to be honest I really think they could & should & that it'd be exceptionally useful & good. But no one dares to threaten the AP market like that.
Thankfully in wifi, RF engineering & antennas count for a huge amount. You still have great gear. But it does hurt me to see what seems like rampant tech-stagnation & neglect, of such a vital, interesting, basic part of modern communication technology: our wireless systems.
[1] https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ALFA_Network_AWUS036ACH https://wikidevi.wi-cat.ru/ALFA_Network_AWUS036ACH
[2] https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8812au#purpose https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8812au#purpose