The AR9271 is in one interesting product that retails for $30 USD: Ubiquiti WifiStation - a USB dongle with 7dBi dual-chain directional antenna and 30dBm (1 watt) tx power (also comes in an external-antenna 1 watt version)
Damien Bergamini [damien.bergam...@free.fr] wrote: > otus(4) only supports the AR9170 chip which is a completely > different beast than the AR9271. > The AR9271 chipset is not supported by OpenBSD, it would > require a new driver. It is supported under Linux by the > ath9k_htc driver so it would be possible to add support in > OpenBSD by reusing code in athn(4). > The AR9271 is not very interesting though, it didn't make > it into a lot of products, is expensive, and these big USB > dongles are boring and ugly. > All the 802.11 USB devices made by Atheros have been quite > disappointing. > > Damien -- Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food - Hippocrates
