Re: Please recommend wifi 6 card which supports OpenBSD

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 11:17:31AM +0000, Vilnius wrote:
> Dear OpenBSD Community,
>
>
> I hope you are all doing well.
>
> I'm thinking about building OBSD based home router with wifi access
> point, but I'm not sure which card I should pickup which would provide
> best compatibility with OBSD. I'm looking with dual band support which
> most importantly supports both 2.4/5ghz and also has support for AP
> and has no issues with OBSD itself.
>
> Does this thing exist or doing wifi AP on OBSD is not really
> recommended like some google searches suggest ? This is home based
> setup.
>
> Thanks
>

As has been said before on more than one occasion, you'd be much better
off using a separate non-OpenBSD access point. You get better WiFi
performance, more recent 802.11* protocols (AFAICT there is no support
for 802.11ax yet), sometimes the router's location isn't the most
appropriate for the AP, etc.

I tried using an OpenBSD box as a wifi router, but performance was poor,
and its was hard to know whether it was the antennas, the box's
location, the card's tx power, etc. I then repurposed my ISP's wifi
router as an AP using a separate vlan, added some block rules on the
router's pf.conf to keep it from "calling home" and never looked back.

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