@Small_Juli:

Adhoc support has the options enable and disable (currently disable)

Country Region (2.4GHz) has #0 (1 - 11), #1 (1 - 13), #2 (10 - 11), #3 (10 - 13), #4 (14), #5 (1 - 14), #6 (3 - 9), #7 (5 - 13) (currently #0 (1 - 11))

Country Region (5GHz) has a shitton of options, default is #9 (36 - 116, 132 - 165)

Direct connect mode 802.11n has enable and disable (currently disable)

Multimedia/gaming environment has enable and disable (currently disable)

Rouming/Sensative

Radio On/Off has enable and disable (currently enable)

Also how do I check if I have an internal bluetooth adapter? Drivers seem to be preinstalled, but I don't know and am sorta confused.

Thanks for the help!

Model of wireless card mediatek mt7630e

I can't tell you what they all do but in general if you don't have a reason to change something that is already working then don't.

The Country Regions (both 2.4 & 5 GHz) is a legal thing. Radio emissions are regulated by law. So select whatever country you live in and it will only allow you to use legal channels. It looks like you are in America as you currently have Channels 1-11 selected. So leave that as is.
What you can do to improve performance though is download something like Acrylic WiFi Home and it will show you which channels are in use in your area. Select a channel (1-11) that is either not used for lightly used and you will get better performance on your network.

Radio on/off is just that, turn your wifi radio on or turn it off.

Multimedia / Gaming Environment is probably some kind of QoS, unless you have problems with either of these things I would leave it off.

Personally I like to configure the rules as shown in the attached screenshot.

Some people prefer not to use the inverted match ! (not) rule as it can appear confusing.

Steve


Hey guys,

I just want to report that I was successfully able to configure my WLE200NX (9280) PCIe card as an AP running at  5 ghz on channel 64 installed on my APU2c4 board that I use as my AP / firewall using PF on OpenBSD 6.0, without having to mod anything. I just switched to chan 64 on hostname.athn0 and just restarted the adapter, and it worked! Again no MODS!  So yes, the chipset supports 5 ghz on AP mode. Does anyone know what other channels are available to run at 5 ghz other than 64. thanks!

Now it works!

It's now in the latest snapshot of 2.3.4 and 2.4.0.

see: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/6832

Daniel

The issue could be related to Init, not Dial string. Custom init string should be set to ATZ (just Z in the web GUI as I recall).
Please check what I wrote earlier here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=105842.msg589805#msg589805

All working fine now with the additional tweaks. Everything is behaving more like I'd expect now, without needing to mess with IGMP proxies.

Thanks for the help.

"please recommend a replacement for it for a home network"

Get an real AP vs some card in pfsense.. Unifi makes some good ones.. Can be had for less than $100 AC lite model..

Pfsense no longer sells internal wifi cards, they recommend the unifi stuff if you want wifi..  Save yourself a lot of headache, going to have way better coverage.. Just pretty much zero reason to try and use some wifi card as your AP..  When you can just pick up a actual AP..

thanks kpa

Hmm, possibly just some combination of hardware that isn't supported then.  :-\

Steve

Just as an update, the chipset that I had was a AR9227.  After lots of research, I found that I had to set the Group Key Rotation to 300 and standard of 802.11g rather than being able to use ng at all.  :'(

@NogBadTheBad:

It could be down to trying it when HomeKit was first introduced, it could have been teething problems.

Yea its working fine now on different subnets.

Have a look at the FreeBSD supported WiFi adaptors, support for 802.11ac doesn't exist :-

https://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/support.html

You'd be better using an ethernet cable for the moment IMO or buy a wifi to ethernet bridge.

You'll also need to add static routes for the subnets on your pfsense router onto your current router.

Thanks John.  I went ahead and bought the AP Pro.  I got a $150 Amazon gift card for Christmas from my family (they know just what I love).  Thanks to the advice you guys gave me over on my other post, I also picked up a Unifi Switch-8-60W.  I'll be setting everything up over the weekend!

@remlei:

Luckily that router supports OpenWRT and it seems that the switch on that router supports VLAN so good for you. So flash it with OpenWRT unless your router is already locked down due to FCC regulation.

there is no openwrt for VR900 atm

You are correct, upon looking deeper the 500 series uses specific sfp ports, or specific normal ports, etc..

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/csbms/Sx500/quick_start/en/500_Series_QSG_En.pdf
The default stack ports on the 500X are XG3/S1 and XG4/S2. If the correct module is plugged into XG3/S1 and XG4/S2, the switch should be able to detect the connection and configure the speed according to the module capability without any manual configuration. The 5G/S1 and 5G/S2 interfaces on the 500X need to be configured manually via the CLI or web-based interface in order to utilize these ports as stack ports

But if you ask me this is not a real stack ;)  Isn't the stack bandwidth with like a 3750 and stackwise cables like 64gbps - this seems like nothing more than a fancy daisychain ;)  If your going to be limited to say 10ge or 5 or 1gpbs..

^ trust me, we already done any kind of mix configuration like changing the regulation and country, channels, wireless standards and stuff, all of them lands on this "beacon" issue. Plus I dont agree with noisy environment issue thingy, because even the crappiest wireless router that I bough on alibaba works much better compared to pfsense paired with best miniPCIe wireless card that I had from ubiquity.

As I mentioned above, all issues that I had is fixed by just moving distro. I point all of this issue with FreeBSD crappy wireless driver, I can assume that wireless drivers in FreeBSD works best on Client mode only, but not AP mode.

Dont get me wrong though, pfsense is still a good firewall disto, but its just not up for job regarding witreless, I actually use pfsense as my main router firewall and a AP AC PRO dedicated AP from Ubiquity (which I should have done in the first place /sigh).

You have a WiFi problem not a pfSense problem. Another firewall is not what you need.

You should be able to get an access point like a UAP-AC-Lite, connect it to your LAN, and give it the same SSID and WPA passphrase and be good to go.

If using 2.4GHz, you have three channels to choose from. 1, 6, and 11. If pfSense is on 1, put the AP on 6 or 11.

Make sure they are on separate 5GHz channels taking into account 40MHz (+ or -) or higher channel width.