From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: Gaming desktop hardware + 802.11 ac wifi Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 14:29:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20190107192914.GB18942@jasmine.lan> References: <87pnt8j10l.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:32913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggaak-0007gr-5j for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:29:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggaai-00071k-UQ for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:29:41 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:60645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggaai-0006Is-Iv for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:29:40 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87pnt8j10l.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: "help-guix@gnu.org" --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:00:10AM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Last but not least, I need wifi. Since I'm on fiber optics here, only > 802.11 ac allows me to take full benefit of the bandwidth. Is there any > free open 802.11 ac driver? ath10k seems to be non-free, right? ath9k > seems to only support 802.11n cards, which is limiting the bandwidth to > 150Mbit/s. Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm no authority but my understanding of the situation is similar: The latest / fastest WiFi standard supported by free drivers is 802.11n. With no change on the horizon... However, I've seen 802.11n ath9k cards that claim to go up to 300Mbps. Think Penguin sells some PCIe and MPCIe cards like that. And apparently 802.11n can go to 600Mbps, although a quick search doesn't tell me if any implementations exist that are supported by free drivers. --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAlwzqIcACgkQJkb6MLrK fwhe2w/+KoYUsR0ID2su3yeTajPksghH5jy+shUdt7GI8lSPp2qdgaHwh24zuOHJ AhPXGMasoZvGgCCdL3+elX4ozTHyfvTk/kbLeq0tB2Ngc0RcRjYVgMHhRV6CoBGP Bz3tuI662qMztbFbmdXzXIzPJlb+xJONCqmMJonhuo+NCTqAavvHkGy9MO3XbNCq kU2I6AyYPKT2JSJP26+hgjXuUFoFohLqNZPH4on4ijWcGlm3ie/+YorK5b/DiFs6 yAF6AtMsouiGg9H/FJB2yHsWFYN/yGggNbR3D/FSpoe45EAeobJMojuj97v11q8o PrNGgK9yxIRNt7HTRGiJrIps+31WIlj2u3ittme+yFp7x2134miORiQ+Yl0JZDUL dzVSmjTQy9qtTVKC6Z8Hw01HmQM2qAMShjdYzSntt8vN85sITugpYR8+ah2SU7eo XW4dpDAK2HbgeVdMxfmx9ReRtV6fl6/JwH91d156pSpFM5sioUlFE+N/IE/O0C23 MXSK18o1I3dq4bNeUzeVP7Lq2Q5RqafneQ9cI3Q77M4E4YnzNUt5bSZ76MwfD8Tv xQwwXBhmp6mL+WbNCrEh8R1aGMNjie4COv7MQDVc3S2L8SA6TkH4tx2nTtccXpuZ vmaSdTnpAjC6puF72Nzi359dsW8rD5jZoCAEqVcTAJpxyRb/vp8= =Z2gt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wRRV7LY7NUeQGEoC--