[ale] Buy your wifi routers now...

[James Sumners]

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Next-Unit-Computing-NUC5i3RYK/dp/B00S1ISFOQ

Costs just about as much as a decent 802.11ac consumer router. As far as I
can tell, the wireless chipset support "AP Mode" in Linux. I'd probably get
a USB ethernet adapter to connect it to my external network, though. I'd
use the on-board ethernet for my internal network.

Yeah, I'm thinking this might just be done by the end of the year in my
house. I'm liking this plan a lot. Plus, I'd actually be able to save my
bandwidth logs instead of losing them every time my router reboots.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 4:13 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Then maybe Arduino will get an 802.11ac shield at some point (already has
> several b/g/n). Or maybe I'll skip all of that shenanigans and go straight
> for a http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/overview.html
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:08:33PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>> > I was already thinking of building a router from a Raspberry Pi, and
>> this
>> > news just solidifies it. Hopefully there is an 802.11c card available
>> for
>> > it that will do monitor mode. If not, maybe soon?
>>
>> The RPi is a poor choice, because it only has a single USB port that's
>> not much of a performer in its own right.  (All user visible ports plus
>> the ethernet port are connected via an internal hub)
>>
>> (I tried to use a RPi as a hotspot for a camper, and the USB performance
>>  was so bad the wifi cards kept locking up under even light loads..)
>>
>>  - Solomon
>> --
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