N Driver: Wifi

No review of WiFi N drivers is complete without addressing the Linux kernel. Here, the "WiFi N driver" becomes a philosophical debate about proprietary firmware vs. open-source freedom.

However, the maturity of the N-driver is also its strength. We have reached a point of stability where N-drivers are largely bug-free. The glitches of 2009—packet loss under heavy encryption, authentication loops—have been ironed out through a decade of patching. The current generation of N-drivers is robust, boring, and reliable—exactly what infrastructure software should be. wifi n driver