Clients Cards

Luch · Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:11 pm

MSI PC54G3

MSI PC60G

Encore ENLWI-G

Edimax EW7128G

Noganet TWL-542P

TP Link WN 650G

I have to select one of this cards to use in the clients PCs.

The distance is 300 - 500 meters from the omni

I have a RB whit a senao 400 mw and and omni antena in a big tower.

Which card is better ? Anyone know this cards ?

Thanks

( my english is to bad, sorry )

acim · Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:29 am

This is close distance, so any card should work. I just wouldn't use these MSI cards, I don't have good experience from Asus WiFi cards, so I don't recommend card from motherboard manufacturers, just stick to network equipment manufacturers. I have good experience with TP-Link cards.

Luch · Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:18 am

Thanks, yes is too close.

But i ask because some cards maybe have some problems working whit MT

I use APs usually but in this case i need cards and have nio experience whit this.

Thanks
Bye

acim · Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:04 am

If you are unsure, just use Atheros based cards, you can't miss with this.

jorj · Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:06 pm

I am using TP-Link 650 and 651 cards, and I have quite a few of them.
I am very pleased.
651 is AR5213, 650 is AR5212.

Both good cards.
About the others, I just did not used them.

iron4umx · Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:36 pm

It is close distance, any card should do, but.... I would strongly recomend using an ethernet wireless bridge instead of a pci or USB card, you get much more flexibiliti and reliability from an ethernet wireless bridge, something like a:

linksys wrt54g or a
wap54g, or an
exterasys wap 253 wap 254,
or any bridge based on the Realtek 8186 chipset (these are the cheapest ones and have good performance)

This way if you requiere LOS (Line of sigth) you just run a long UTP cable with power/ethernet, place the ethernet wireless bridge inside an exterior casing (you can make this out of 8 inch PVC tube and 2 PVC caps)

and you have your selfe an afordable and reliable outdoor antena

kanch · Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:50 am

stay away from Encore, we had trouble with them

Luch · Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:24 am

Hi,

I want to use cards because the clients are soo close to the tower , and the installation in the client home will be more " clear ", only put the card in the pc and is running, so no cables, no holes in the wall or anything else.

Thanks

iron4umx · Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:45 am

Ok dude, your call, if you whant to go with the cards that's fine, but make a test first, get a lap-top or a cpu with a card allredy installed and configured and check if you get a good link, if you get a good link... Congrat's¡¡¡ but if you are not satisfied with the performance, get the ethernet wireless bridge.

Best Regards and good luck¡¡

James S.

sidney · Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:37 am

We also using T-link in some of our clients that is as far as 1km
but i use a pigtail and a 13dbi flatpanel anntenna or for the close one
a 8dbi flatpanel

[admin@G.I.Zone Tower 1] interface wireless registration-table> print
# INTE... RADIO-NAME MAC-ADDRESS AP SIGNAL... TX-RATE
0 ;;; 50-16 Sidney
wlan2 Squid Home 00:0B:6x:xx:xx:xx no -79dBm... 1Mbps
1 ;;; 50-50 floris
wlan3 00:14:78:7x:xx:xx no -81dBm... 36Mbps
2 ;;; 50-40 Yarik
wlan2 00:14:78:7x:xx:xx no -63dBm... 11Mbps
3 ;;; 40-22 Scriptscribe
wlan2 00:02:xx:xx:xx:xx no -95dBm... 36Mbps
4 ;;; 40-28 Jako
wlan3 00:02:6x:xx:xx:xx no -95dBm... 36Mbps
5 ;;; 50-130 Thinus
wlan3 00:30:4x:xx:xx:xx no -72dBm... 36Mbps

as the two in bold is TP-link
the frist one no 1 is 500m using a 8dbi flatpanel and no 2 is 1km but in a block of flats with LOS also 8dbi
no5 using a planet pci with a 13dbi with pigtail and 4m lm400 cable

Sidney

Luch · Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:23 pm

Thanks , this afternoon i will try whit 2 cards ( Next and DWL 520 ) , if i the link was no good , will trie whit flats panel , or in the worst case i will use a bridge whit and external antenna.

Thanks for everyone

jorj · Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:31 pm

With d-link cards, I have had .........well............ let's say various results.
Some of them died, some are performing very well. In both 2.4 and 5 ghz.
It seems that 5 ghz it's a sensible subject on d-link cards. They just act strangely.