WiFi connection speed

[mbzadegan]

Hi,
I buy an WiFi USB Dongle that originally support up to 300 Mbit/sec. How can I find that its current connection speed?

 

[kpa]

Very few adapters work in 802.11n under FreeBSD and I think it's limited to Atheros devices pretty much and the support is very experimental. The USB Wifi dongle you're buying probably works in FreeBSD but only in 802.11g (54 Mbits/sec) mode.

You will find the current operating mode of the device in the ifconfig(8) output.

 

[mbzadegan]

OK, but it seems that FreeBSD should also be able to identify this connection speed.

 

[kpa]

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

The examples show the operating mode as mode 11g in ifconfig(8) output. I'm not sure what it would show in 802.11n mode, probably mode 11n.

 

[lme@]

Very few adapters work in 802.11n under FreeBSD and I think it's limited to Atheros devices pretty much and the support is very experimental. The USB Wifi dongle you're buying probably works in FreeBSD but only in 802.11g (54 Mbits/sec) mode.

You will find the current operating mode of the device in the ifconfig(8) output.

The iwn(4) driver also supports 802.11n.

 

[trev]

The other option is to buy one of those Chinese 802.11n "pocket routers" which connects directly to an ethernet port (for network) and USB (for power). Sub $20 delivered on eBay, Ali Express et al.