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What are the best adapters you can recommend?

Sat, 03/05/2011 - 21:32 — vv

Daihinia™ should work with any adapter. The best experience, however, is with adapters that have good signal power and sensitivity, and a good implementation of the 802.11 stack.

A typical low-cost WiFi adapter has only 100mW output power, while FCC allows up to 1000mW (ten times more). Luckily, WIFI-Link™ offers 1000mW adapters with excellent sensitivity. (Be caerful, though, as they drain all their power from USB)

During our internal tests, our general impression of various chipset manufacturers is as follows:

  • Atheros: good power and sensitivity, very bad IBSS implementation.
  • Intel: good power and sensitivity, excellent IBSS implementation.
  • Ralink: bad power and sensitivity, rock-solid IBSS implementation.
  • Realtek: good power and sensitivity, decent IBSS implementation.