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Thank you! I have had a look at both article! My situation is similar to yours as I'm thinking that perhaps I will not have WiFi on it. Also based on the first of the two articles, it seems that wireless cards for PC are not that great when you use them as access points. (I wonder if the situation has changed at all since 2016 though).

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WiFi cards for PC will probably always make crappy access points, not least because the antenna they come with can't compete with those on consumer WiFi routers.

They could totally work if you only need to cover something like a small apartment and don't need top speed.

But separate WiFi access point is probably the way to go, I'd made sure to get ones that could run OpenWRT.

> I'd made sure to get ones that could run OpenWRT.

Very good point!

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