Ok so I am trying to use a 4GB pi5 as a remote server for radio reception on top of a hill (the hill is about 200ft elevation) behind my house. The simple overview of the project is connect a piece of hardware called a software defined radio to the pi via USB, and then relay the data it collects to my house using WiFi and a directional antenna set up. I have most of this set up built and the software for it functioning, using a voltage regulator some LiPOE4 12v batteries and a solar panel.
The last issue to get sorted out before I take a climb to deploy this thing is the WiFi. Currently I am using the Pi5s built in WiFi adapter, I had planned on sticking with that and then just soldering an external antenna to the Pi5, but the WiFi on the Pi5 is much slower than I thought it would be. In the same room as the router the Pi5 WiFi link speed is 340mbps. From what I understand that is pretty average for a Pi5, but the Pi5s WiFi is AC right? Shouldn't I be getting closer to 1GB with WiFi AC, why is the built on WiFi so much slower than the AC standard?
Right now most of my devices connect to my router at 1.2gbps or more, none of my USB AX/Wifi6 cards appear to have a compatible chipset to connect to my Pi5 and test out. I do have an extra Alpha AC USB with an rtl8812AU chipset, it appears to be pi compatible and support monitor mode which is cool, but you need to compile a kernel module and based on the posts I have read I am not sure how smooth that will go.
I am looking to get my WiFi link to at least 900mbps, hopefully more, would my AC adapter be capable of that because the built in module sure isn't? Does anyone know of a WiFi6 card that already has kernel support, and can confirm it will get 1gbps speeds?
The last issue to get sorted out before I take a climb to deploy this thing is the WiFi. Currently I am using the Pi5s built in WiFi adapter, I had planned on sticking with that and then just soldering an external antenna to the Pi5, but the WiFi on the Pi5 is much slower than I thought it would be. In the same room as the router the Pi5 WiFi link speed is 340mbps. From what I understand that is pretty average for a Pi5, but the Pi5s WiFi is AC right? Shouldn't I be getting closer to 1GB with WiFi AC, why is the built on WiFi so much slower than the AC standard?
Right now most of my devices connect to my router at 1.2gbps or more, none of my USB AX/Wifi6 cards appear to have a compatible chipset to connect to my Pi5 and test out. I do have an extra Alpha AC USB with an rtl8812AU chipset, it appears to be pi compatible and support monitor mode which is cool, but you need to compile a kernel module and based on the posts I have read I am not sure how smooth that will go.
I am looking to get my WiFi link to at least 900mbps, hopefully more, would my AC adapter be capable of that because the built in module sure isn't? Does anyone know of a WiFi6 card that already has kernel support, and can confirm it will get 1gbps speeds?
Statistics: Posted by rwgast — Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:01 am
