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This would be so much less of a pain if decent wifi pcie cards were available. It's all a bunch of very expensive kind of dodgy Compex cards, used for industri
by jauntywundrkind 7mo ago
This would be so much less of a pain if decent wifi pcie cards were available.
It's all a bunch of very expensive kind of dodgy Compex cards, used for industrial or prototype purposes. Be prepared to spend $300+ for a single 4x4 MIMO card. And then you want to go dual band right?
Thankfully the MediaTek offerings are somewhat available and much much much cheaper, but reports are that driver quality is just absymal.
Meanwhile the openwrt table of hardware for wifi 6 and wifi 7 is a bare trickle already, and inceasingly not consumer routers but SBC. Thanks for the FCC messing things up brutally already, back in 2015, with requirements to make sure users couldn't possibly do anything out of spec, requiring these systems to be locked down. They almost banned open source outright, but in practice it feels like the requirements are high enough that they practically did. https://toh.openwrt.org/?features=wifi_be https://toh.openwrt.org/?features=wifi_be https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tp-link-blocks-open-source-router-firmware-to-comply-with-new-fcc-rule/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tp-li...
Frelling FCC! What dastardly deeds done against civilization! We would be so much more secure & protected, the bar would be so much higher if open source / openwrt was allowed to compete. You messed everything up already!!