[atlas] MAT-WG proposal for WLAN measurements on RIPE Atlas

Hi,

> I'm sure a future hardware platform for RIPE Atlas (v4, v5) will support
> 5GHz while mainting the competitve pricing of the current hardware.

Picking up on this: we're always on the lookout for potential new hardware
generations, and we are testing new devices as we learn about them. Recently
we checked out the ASUS WL-330NUL and the Edimax BR-6258 Mini. While these
are small and sexy enough (like the v1/v2 probes were; it looks like we
basically invented the form factor (*) :-), their hardware is too
constrained for our purposes.

Please let us know if you know about new devices that we should evaluate.
The primary requirements are price (should be off-the-shelf, most likely),
capabilities (RAM and local storage needs 32MB minimum, the more the better)
and form factor (see the above candidates; home router sized boxes are not
really ideal).

Regards,
Robert

(*) interesting historical artefact from our archives: the attached image is
the "concept art" of how a probe could look like, dated mid-2010
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