Best USB wireless card

Bruno Randolf br1
Wed May 15 02:35:45 PDT 2013


On 04/07/2013 11:26 AM, David Goodenough wrote:
>  > the others are ath_9k which work perfectly, minus the fact that you can't
>  > have more than 7 simultaneous connections, which is firmware related.
>
> The source of the firmware for several atheros USB chips has recently been
> published on github. So now you can change that limit by rebuilding it.

Yes, that's nice, but has anyone tried doing so?

There must be some reason for the limit, most probably memory and CPU 
power, as mentionened here:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath9k.devel/9546

bruno



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