What wireless NIC should I Deploy?!?

[da.beaver]

I know this is going to be somewhat biased, but I have the unique opportunity to choose a wireless NIC for our company.

It's like this... We have been rolling out many different types of laptops from Dell over the last couple of years and each one has a different built in wireless NIC. We have not had good success from Intel for obvious reasons, we have had great success from external Cisco cards, and good success from Atheros internal chipsets.

What I want to know is what are you using and what works the best. We want to pick one and move forward with only one type of card in the future for all of our laptops.

Thanks in advance for your input.

[Darren Ramsey]

You are around 2-3x the size of our environment, and we have 7921 and Vocera, so yes the AP deployment is dense. We still have Dell 1470, 1490 and Intel 2915 in production. Like you mentioned, the older Intel drivers were bad, but I've heard no complaints with the 2915 running 9.0.4.39 with our current controller code 4.2.176.0. I have not used any Atheros other than the CB21AG, which is very solid.