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Limp Gawd
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This Dell DW1601 card that they offered in some of their notebooks is half height, Mini PCIe combo card that it looks like Dell used for a wireless docking station of some sort. I just scored one of these DW1601 WiGig cards, as well as a Dell D5000 Wireless docking station that I presume dell intended this DW1601 card to communicate with. I am not planning to use the docking station, however it includes its own DW1601 WiGig card, just like the individual one that I purchased.
I have a HP XW8600 workstation that currently hosts my 6x3TB RAID5 array. I have an intel quad port gigabit ethernet adapter for it in the PCI-X slot which supports 802.3ad link aggregation, so that provides me with a 4.0Gbps connection, along with the Broadcom NetExtreme dual onboard gigabit ethernet with its 2.0Gbps connection. I have the 4.0Gbps + 2.0Gbps hardware aggregated links bound together in Windows Server 2012 R2 for a 6.0Gbps ethernet connection. It's not the most efficient setup in the world, but at the time it was the most optimal speed/cost solution that I could find for that platform. I recently have been investing my free time in building a mATX X99 'Mini Workstation'. One of my goals in that project is to me looking for a cheap, greater than 2.0Gbps way to link it to my XW8600. Unfortunately, all of the hardware multiport gigabit ethernet NICs are still ridiculously overpriced. A single lane PCIe 2.0 slot provides a theoretical bandwidth of 5.0Gbps. Why there are no quad port gigabit (4.0Gbps) NICs with a PCIe 2.0 x1 interface is a mystery to me.
So that has been the driving motivation that has lead me to pursuing this project. That is, placing one of these DW1601 cards in a MiniPCIe -> PCIe x1 adapter and placing it in the XW8600 and configuring that card to run in AP mode. Then installing another DW1601 into a MiniPCIe -> PCIe x1 adapter and installing it in my X99 system and configure it as a client to the XW8600's DW1601. I have yet to come across any reason that this wouldn't work. I should also mention that these two systems have a clear line of sight to each other. They sit adjacent to one another, so much that their antennas will be able to touch another. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that these cheap MiniPCIe -> PCIe x1 adapters can function as PCIe 2.0 x1 (5.0Gbps), otherwise they'll be stuck at a limiting 2.5Gbps link.
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Dell_Wireless_1601_WiGig_(802.11ad)_and_802.11n_2x2_Wi-Fi_Half_Mini_Card
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/wil6210
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Gigabit_Alliance
I have a HP XW8600 workstation that currently hosts my 6x3TB RAID5 array. I have an intel quad port gigabit ethernet adapter for it in the PCI-X slot which supports 802.3ad link aggregation, so that provides me with a 4.0Gbps connection, along with the Broadcom NetExtreme dual onboard gigabit ethernet with its 2.0Gbps connection. I have the 4.0Gbps + 2.0Gbps hardware aggregated links bound together in Windows Server 2012 R2 for a 6.0Gbps ethernet connection. It's not the most efficient setup in the world, but at the time it was the most optimal speed/cost solution that I could find for that platform. I recently have been investing my free time in building a mATX X99 'Mini Workstation'. One of my goals in that project is to me looking for a cheap, greater than 2.0Gbps way to link it to my XW8600. Unfortunately, all of the hardware multiport gigabit ethernet NICs are still ridiculously overpriced. A single lane PCIe 2.0 slot provides a theoretical bandwidth of 5.0Gbps. Why there are no quad port gigabit (4.0Gbps) NICs with a PCIe 2.0 x1 interface is a mystery to me.
So that has been the driving motivation that has lead me to pursuing this project. That is, placing one of these DW1601 cards in a MiniPCIe -> PCIe x1 adapter and placing it in the XW8600 and configuring that card to run in AP mode. Then installing another DW1601 into a MiniPCIe -> PCIe x1 adapter and installing it in my X99 system and configure it as a client to the XW8600's DW1601. I have yet to come across any reason that this wouldn't work. I should also mention that these two systems have a clear line of sight to each other. They sit adjacent to one another, so much that their antennas will be able to touch another. I am crossing my fingers and hoping that these cheap MiniPCIe -> PCIe x1 adapters can function as PCIe 2.0 x1 (5.0Gbps), otherwise they'll be stuck at a limiting 2.5Gbps link.
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Dell_Wireless_1601_WiGig_(802.11ad)_and_802.11n_2x2_Wi-Fi_Half_Mini_Card
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/wil6210
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Gigabit_Alliance