Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wifi adaptor recommendations

[Joel Wirāmu Pauling]

N DOES NOT HELP at hotels. N over 2.4ghz forces ALL stations on that
broadcast bandwidth (yes even those not participating) to downgrade to
Legacy mode ( this behaviour is stupid, but that's what we get for
backwards compatibility of mac80211 that should hace been abandonded after
G for a complete redesign ). And there is always some device in hotels that
ensures you will almost never get anything useable out on 2.4ghz channels.

5ghz (a and ac or a+n) ammeloriates this, and because of the narroweer and
more abundant bands and channel options.

The chances are however likely you're get shapped to hell by their captive
portal before either of these issues. That class of hotel in the states you
will be lucky with 3 mbit per device, be happy with 10 or 15 for the
premium paid step option.

As others have said it is time to replace your G device (not least because
you are a culprit of said above behaviour ;-) ... you can get 3x3 dual band
dual proc ath9k+ath10k routers that are openwrt-able for 50-70$ (i liked
the tplink ac1750 v2 As a budget buy, but i hear the v3's require using
lftp mode to flash ).

Look on openwrt.org for suggestions.

Bridge mode is a BS proprietary method ONLY implemented on bcm2xxx chips.
You can achieve what you want with relayd (Bridges l2 broadcast domain of
ANY two networks regardless) on ANY router running openwrt.

-Joel
On May 24, 2016 9:13 PM, "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:

> Mark Knecht posted on Tue, 24 May 2016 15:11:20 -0700 as excerpted:
>
> > Anyway, I guess if it was me I'd use the one you have short term while
> > at the hotel and then look at my house system when I landed someplace
> > permanent and try to go as fast as possible then.
>
> Bridge mode.  Thanks.
>
> And sticking with the old router is a reasonable suggestion.  I'm just
> not sure it's actually going to be practical in the shared hotel
> environment.  But with G mode now quite outdated, provided the hotel
> still offers that and I'd guess they do still offer at least G (tho maybe
> not A/B), it /might/ mean I'm about the only one on it and
> /could/ mean I even get better speeds than I would on the N and AC modes
> if they're clogged.
>
> I'll have to call and confirm they offer G mode...
>
> Worst case, I don't have Internet for three months and watch TV and/or
> get a lot of books read.
>
> > Good luck with the move. Moving is tough. Stay cool in this heat.
>
> Yeah.  The two good points are (1) that the city is actually paying
> commercial movers for the move, which I effectively signed off on today,
> so worst-case, I don't do anything and let them do it all, but end up
> storing a bunch of stuff I'd probably get rid of if I did it myself, and
> not having the stuff I'd keep as sorted, but it does kind of lower the
> stress as one way or another it'll get done, and (2) while it's
> unpleasantly forcing me out of my familiar shell in the near term, the
> change should be healthy for me long term.
>
> As for the heat, I've not felt it much yet this year.  Given that it's
> happening at the very early tip of June, I hope/expect it won't be too
> bad.  I'm a bit worried about the move out of the temp housing at the end
> of August, however.  Except if I get my butt in gear and have things
> sorted and a lot thrown out at this end on the first, then I'll have less
> to deal with on the other end and it'll be already sorted.
>
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