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According to the "Supported Hardware" list AX200 is supported: https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi#Supported_Hardware

Not even 802.11ac, and of course no 802.11ax or more recent modes. (802.11ac appeared in 2013). This means that you get about 2 MB/s from it, which makes it completely unusable in 2024.

Ah, even 802.11n is not supported! This is a 2009 standard. So we are left with 802.11a/b, which is 2003. The wifi of 21 years ago.

I'm connecting to remote SSH endpoints for 20+ years and the connection quality actually improved over the years. Some of these connections are not just encrypted text-based stuff, but tunnelled VNC and other more throughput-hungry use-cases for using SSH (than logging into remote text-based terminal).

I'm curious - what do you do, or what use-case do you have in mind, that renders 16 Mbit/s throughput "completely unusable"? I never required 16 Mbit/s throughput for... anything related to my work. It's enough even for high-quality video conferencing.

Well, downloading 1GB of updates, or a 15GB dataset is a pretty common occurrence.

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