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05 Feb, 2020
Good on the whole, a couple of niggles.
3 of 4 found this helpful This repeater works, and is capable of pretty good throughput.
As a bit of a tech-head, I want to be able to fine tune its operation.
What I wanted to do was to connect the repeater to the main router using 5GHz WiFi and have it rebroadcast on both 5GHz and 2.4GHz. This it will do without any problems, but there is no way to configure which channel and channel bandwidth it will use on 2,4GHz.
So I have a repeater connected over a fast link to my router, and it is using the same channel as the main router on 2.4GHz so they interfere with each other. Not so clever.
I then came up with a bit of a hack - I set up my phone's WiFi access point on the channel I wanted the repeater to use and had the repeater connect to it on 2.4GHz and at the same time connect to the main router on 5GHz. The repeater was then using the channel I had selected for my phone's access point function. I then turned off the phone's access point which left the repeater using the channel I had selected and relaying the main router's connection from 5HGz to 2.4GHz in the way I wanted. Job done... but it would have been a lot easier if there was a configuration option for this!
12 Jun, 2019
It just works.
1 of 2 found this helpful General description: This controller is a half length half height card with a PCIe x8 interface. It works (at reduced speed) in a x4 or even a x1 slot providing the slot is physically at least a x8. The PCIe interface is gen. 3, but works perfectly well in an older, gen. 2 motherboard, though with a slight reduction in speed.
Ease of use: I plugged it in, attached some drives and it just worked. I then took delivery of a SAS expander (an Intel RES2SV240), connected that to one of the ports on the card, added some more drives and it just worked. I now have it controlling 16 drives. This is plug and play as it should be!
Be aware: This card generates a fairly large amount of heat. It is important to arrange some airflow over the heatsink otherwise it will cook itself.
The good: Ease of use. It just works.
The bad: Needs cooling, havn't yet figured out a way to read SMART data from SATA drives.