Yeah client to the AP is 450 PHY..  But now next client you would have /2 of that automatically..  I can see how they can report PHY.. But come on – your wired interface is not even capable of half of your PHY your talking 1/4 of what your PHY is reported as so WTF would be the point???

Well you could get more if your client could do more than 1 stream.. Seems that is your limit.. You could in theory be seeing mid 90's with that AP but not if your client is only 1 stream..

3 streams at 20mhz with 800ns gi is 195 so do /2 of that to get you in real world your bottleneck would be the 10/100 interface on the device.  But if your client only has 1 stream, low end laptop wifi, phones, etc.. very common to only have 1 stream..  What is your client in this testing??

Disconnecting from AC/DC power will not lose any setting because these are stored in EEPROM.

I am also using few routers ( Linksys, TPLINK ) as switches and WIFI AP and I have even separate LANs - WIFI on the same router each connected with separate Ethernet cable to pfsense but in my case are with DD-WRT,Tomato firmware and I can also turn WIFI ON/OFF remote, I have them on schedule OFF at night.

If you don't have free PCI slots for an Ethernet card but you have USB you can use an USB-Ethernet adapter and have your AP-router connected to a different NIC, from pfsense 2.2.4 I found that cheap USB-Ethernet adapter with chipset AX-88772b works OK at 100Mbs in pfsense 2.1.5 that adapter did not worked.

It is defiantly a valid config…...

stumbled on this one, might fit your budget. (no idea on quality/features/…)

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/wireless/wireless-news/32816-trendnet-shipping-ac1200-access-point

johnpoz,
Yes this is now the plan. I will reuse my existing wireless router as AP. But I need to buy another NIC to setup as either WAN or LAN. My existing PC only have one NIC and one wireless card.

The Newegg photo shows RALink, but i cannot see the number on chip. Have you checked to see if your chip is supported by FreeBSD and then Access Point mode? RALink actually works some.

Have you setup wifi before?

Post your dmesg.boot file for help.

Thanks for that Phishfry. I will have a closer look at this. It seems that this is what iam looking for. thx

I checked out an entry-level home AP and it, too, had a transmit power setting.  Thanks for the reply and screenshot.

I live in a small apartment so the family and one small child is often < 1m away from the wifi base station now.  I've read reports on both sides of the EMF-will-kill-you-and-burn-your-house-down camp, and I know I won't be able to eliminate it entirely (especially with cell phones, wifi from the neighbors, etc).  I'm not wearing a tin-foil hat, but I still prefer to reduce or eliminate EMF when I have the choice.

I will go with a dedicated AP that officially supports adjusting the tx power level.

Just make sure you didn't configure any upstream gateway on your lan interface.
Check DHCP settings and make sure your clients get the correct settings from your pfsense DHCP.

well from your drawing I would assume your laptop is on the 192.168 network from your wifi router..  Why would you think you should get to pfsense lan IP.. Did you forward ports, did you open up the web gui to the wan IP.

Out of the box pfsense blocks all unsolicited traffic from wan side unless you forward and or create firewall rules to allow traffic.

You're feeding pfSense a trunk with all VLANs tagged or is that switch in L3 mode and does routing?

Thanks for your help.

I haved to change the PCI Adapter.

Actually I used a USB Wireless Adapter and run perfectly.

Only I have a doubt. How I connect the Wireless Card to my Wireless Network in Pfsense 2.2.4?

i cant find where introduce the Password for the Network.

Because there is none.  Get a wifi device and put it behind pfSense.

ok,thanks for support.

Thanks for the advice. All working now! cheers.

I added the rules and it worked.  ::)

What is your slot, full length or half? I have only found one half length mini-pciE module that is acceptable for my personal usage and it is expensive. Based on AR9380/AR5BHB112. The rest of the modules i have tested had lackluster performance.
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Bigfoot_Networks_Killer_Wireless-N_1103

The AR5BHB92 works but you get what you pay for. My connections speeds with it were not optimal.

If you have a full length slot the AR5BXB112 is a good choice for the money.

vpn is set exactly as it should be.
works 100% directly followed from airvpn.

i'm concerned about the wifi.
are the rules correct, or if not, what should i do to allow my to browse the web?

thanks

You may be right, I can reproduce this problem (upload more important than download) with my ISP's wifi.
So it seems the problem is related to my netbook. That's weird. I should try with another Linux distribution, even with Windows.