WiFi USB dongle

[Dotan Cohen]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:45, Antony Gelberg <antony.gelberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a reliable one for use with Linux (Debian Wheezy
> FWIW), that's available to buy in Israel?
>
> I currently have a TP-Link TL-WN422G which has an Atheros chipset.  In
> 2.6.38 it was just bearable, 2.6.39 it's back to being unreliable, I
> can't take it any more.  It just randomly seems to drop out.  It's not
> the distance, it's near enough to the access point, and my laptop with
> the Intel chipset is reliable as anything.  I have no idea if it's the
> driver / firmware or the hardware as I don't have a Windows machine to
> test on.
>
> Antony

My TP-Link TL-WN722N works perfectly fine, I pick up the neighbour's
wifi right through the walls at the full speed of her ISP connection
at least.

✈demios:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:9271 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9271 802.11n
✈demios:~$ uname -a
Linux demios 2.6.38-10-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 16:54:49
UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux




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