Any plans for an AC mini-pci card?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Just wondering if there are any plans for the production of an AC compatible mini-pci card.

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R11e-5HacD

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That’s a Mini PCI express card, not a Mini PCI.

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There isn’t really much of a use for mini-PCI cards nowadays when you’ve got mPCIe ones. You may be able to get an adapter from eBay though.

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I don’t believe such adapter exists.

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i dont think 802.11ac will be a good pairing with old PCI

that remembers me the old pci gigabit NICs with limited performance because the bus limitation

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PCI Express/MiniPCI Express is a serial protocol. PCI/MiniPCI is parallel. So you actually need an active component acting as a bridge, with buffering (RAM) and protocol translation (CPU), which amounts in complexity to a small computer. I doubt there is such thing on the market.

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http://amfeltec.com/products/flexible-minipci-to-pci-express-adapter/

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Ok, that’s something new.

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Yeah, I saw that only one too, it has no price and doesn’t look like very practical to install in a small box, most of the time. I bet is cheaper to buy a newer routerboard than that adapter.

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Any news with this?
I have RB493G and currently using R52HnD card.
Maybe redesigned RB493G with integrated wifi without minipci connectors?