[Arm-netbook] ARM system with good wifi

[Hrvoje Lasic]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Stefan Monnier <monnier at iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> >> I'd like to use something like a Mele-A2000 (i.e. one of those
> >> cheapish-but-beefier-than-linksys-router ARM systems) as access point,
> >> but my Mele-A2000 has a pretty weak wifi.  Part of the problem is the
> >> wifi driver I suspect, but other things like the antenna are probably
> >> not helping.
> >> Does anyone have a product to recommend, based on something comparable
> >> to an Allwinner SoC, but where the wifi is of good quality?
> > Use a separate wifi range extender
>
> AFAIK this is just another USB wifi adapter, just with higher power
> ratings.  I'm already using an external (USB) wifi adapter in my
> Mele-A2000 (to overcome the problems I have with the builtin adapter
> which gives me typically about 100KB/s average with long periods of
> 0B/s, whereas an external adapter gives me about 800KB/s on average), so
> this post is specifically about finding a system where I don't need to
> skip the builtin adapter and use an external one.
>
> FWIW I don't need super extra power: this is for use in a 2-bedroom
> apartment, in your typical north american house where the structure is
> all in wood.
>
> <lasich at gmail.com>


could be driver problem, could be hardware problem (that system is not well
designed (balun, impendance etc)), could be antenna problem (you dont
transmit available power from system to air). If you have USB stick like
wifi adatper you probalby use MIFA antenna and nobody said nothing good
about this antenna even if you have small house.
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