<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 1, 2017 20:56, "Scott Robbins" <<a href="mailto:scottro11@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottro11@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_-5126753097042300285quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_-5126753097042300285quoted-text">On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 07:54:51PM -0400, Brian Cully wrote:<br>
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> > On 1-Jul-2017, at 13:40, Scott Robbins <<a href="mailto:scottro11@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottro11@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > On OpenBSD, I found that the iwm driver wouldn't connect to a hidden<br>
> > wireless network. Also, when I replaced the card with a dual channel, even<br>
> > when connected to a 5GHz network, its wireless was slow. I would recommend<br>
> > if planning to play with BSDs on it, to get a USB to ethernet cable.<br>
> > This was with a recent snapshot.<br>
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> I couldn’t get good performance out of FreeBSD with any of the USB WiFi dongles I tried. Support may be better with PCIe cards, but I don’t have slots for those. So I tried:<br>
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</div>I'm not familiar with each one--what I have found is that buying the really<br>
cheap ones from NewEgg or Amazon often turn out to be a waste. For me,<br>
with two no-name ones (one 10/100, one 10/100/1000) my speeds are good.<br>
<br>
(No serious benchmarking though.)<br>
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