Good ${greeting_time}, Maurice!

14 May 2017 21:48:44, you wrote to me:

 MK> I have a healthy start towards wireless fidonet mesh points using iw
 MK> amd binkd. So far I prefer open mesh since I can successfully set the
 MK> usb wireless dongles to 150mbs speeds on 2.4GHz by forcing the
 MK> bitrate as well as setting the bandwidth to 40MHz instead of the
 MK> usual 20MHz width.

Alas, that's not possible in the large cities... :-/

 MK> Also this method keeps the excellent range I get with these
 MK> particular dongles. Currently I am using (from lsusb ->) "0cf3:9271
 MK> Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR9271 802.11n" usb dongles.

I have two unbeatable 0bda:8187 RTL8187 dongles for that purpose.
Alas, can't find them at aliexpress.com this time...

 MK> Excellent range with these adapters as well as excellent kernel
 MK> support with the native ath9k_htc linux kernel driver. Definetly
 MK> better then the RT3070 jobbers that is for sure although with those
 MK> 300mbs should have been possible if it hadn't been for the lack of
 MK> suitable support for the rt2800usb driver. It used to be good and at
 MK> one time a neighbour and I managed to connect two mesh points at
 MK> 300mbs. Those were the days.  :::sigh:::

On "those were the days": in 2001, I had my first dedicated connection over the
WiFi at 64 kbps, with my antenna poking into a side lobe of our customers' AP
antenna.


P.S.: I think it would make sense to establish the direct link...
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