[tech] [ucc] Minutes of Meeting 6th May 2011

[Adrian Chadd]

On Wed, May 11, 2011, David Adam wrote:
> > General Business
> > ----------------
> > - [DAA] wants to purchase TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND wireless N AP ($75)
> >   - [AHC] claims this is 'actually pretty shit' and the 'range is crap'
> 
> [AHC] actually recommended this model in a thread on committee@, but all 
> intelligent people change their minds from time to time.

I gave my local unit a bit more of a thrashing. The throughput dropped
off reasonably quickly outside of my small living room.

There's a dlink model which has been suggested to me - it's a dual 2/5ghz
band unit and it apparently has much better range and throughput.

> Dual-band devices (which will offer better performance for some users) are 
> definitely more expensive. Finding devices which are both dual-band and 
> have Gigabit Ethernet is left as an exercise to the reader.

Cue the D-Link DIR-825.

http://www.shopbot.com.au/pp-d-link-dir-825-price-141873.html

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=681

11n, 2/5ghz simultaneously (2+ath9k NICs), runs openwrt, 4+1 gige port,
USB2.

Openwrt wiki page: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/d-link/dir-825

On the flip-side it's around $200. But as I said, I've been told by
other wifi developers that this unit Definitely Doesn't Suck.


Adrian