How do you increase transmission power??

@doronl15 hi can I ask you, what card did you use to gain this functionality?

@stephenw10 yes we can agree the user can configure it wrong all over. Again, an administrator might fat finger a large static DHCP list with a couple entries thus causing hostname mix ups. That for one would be very hard to pinpoint. Moreover, we know the amount of hours system administrators work. It's a lot of hours. This would make PfSense have a ease of use software functionality built in. I assumed that if pfSense allowed multiple duplicate entries, it was done for a situation when two devices need to be swapped in and out and need the same IP address, in this mindset PfSense should still log the correct hostnames. Again, if that was the reason for PfSense allowing the GUI duplicate entries.

Weird thing to research, but the hostnames mixup was what I was after and or why
PfSense would allow the duplicate entries in the first place. Let's agree admins have monster static dhcp lists that are updated and changed all the time within a secure setting. This situation would want controls in place for hostnames. Finally, logs for the hostnames could get bonkered up and with a monster list and that would be hard to track down why hostnames are wrong. We know PfSense now has experimental layer 2 Ethernet filtering.

Did you change the USB IDs? Is i still showing as those?

The USB serial devices in /dev are created by u3g when it recognises a device. So if it isn't creating them it's not seeing a device it supports.

Steve

As well as changing the USB IDs to something u3g will recognise you may also need to set the USB composition so it presents an AT port to pfSense.

@SkippyTheMagnificent

Well done 👍

Feels good ... Doesn't it

/Bingo

In my limited experience, Atheros cards (some, not all) will work in AP mode. No, they won't do AC or AX, but they'll do N, at 2.4 or 5GHz. Take a look at the wireless forum here. I'm using both an AR9280 and an AR9380 in AP mode successfully. Cheap and effective. Seems a lot of Intel cards will only work in client, not host, mode.

@johnpoz

Hi
Yes, networks are not correct, that are example for easy explanation nothing else.

I will look a bit later at another post and revert back.

@stephenw10 I received the USB enclosure, installed Windows Drivers and use the BZ31018_DIP_QMI_ModeSwitch tool . Everything is working as intended!!!

Thanks all for the help.

Additional info below in case any else has the same issue.

Modem model: MC7710
USB enclosure used: TBD, AliExpress site not working
Windows drivers: GenericDriverSetup_5087.exe from the Sierra website
QMI > DIP mode switch: Search online for BZ31018_DIP_QMI_ModeSwitch.zip

It should work given what you've said here. So something must be missing....

Try to ping out from pfSense itself but set the source as the LAN address. If that fails then you have a NAT problem. Usually that's because the gateway is not applied on the interface but that cannot happen with a DHCP interface.

@jackthesmack
Again pfSense on its own can do nothing here.

If you're familiar with scripting and the access points provide SSH or telnet access or possibly SNMP, you can monitor the devices connections and reboot the concerned AP in case they're connected to the wrong one.
I did a similar thing in the past with my Engenius AP.

@stephenw10 OK , thank you

Thanks' to all for useful tips!

@jknott said in Which AccessPoint would be recommended - Multiple or Single SSID:

@gamienator-0 said in Which AccessPoint would be recommended - Multiple or Single SSID:

There is a multicast bug in the firmware

That TP-Link multicast bug is still around? I had it in an AP I bought 11 years ago, which prevented me from running IPv6 on my guest WiFi. It also affected some switches. I recall when I tried to get it fixed, the support said it worked the way it was supposed to, but I eventually reached 2nd level support, who agreed it was a bug. There never was an update for mine, so I wound up getting a Unifi AC-Lite a couple of years ago.

This is exactly why you should stay away from tp-link, linksys, d-link and the likes.
Firmware updates are scarce - if they even exist.

@stephenw10 Appreciate the guidance!

Excelllent. I added a feature request for it: https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14050

@bavcon22 thanks for your response. It was very helpful.
Don

@stephenw10 Thank you for your help.

@coltonyyz said in How Many Concurrent Wirelessly Connected Devices Can pfSense handle at once?:

As the title states, I am looking to find out how many devices pfSense can handle concurrently. Can pfSense can handle 200+ concurrently connected devices?

There are more points then this we should know first
about all you needs or the use case of your clients.

Do they only email and surf or watch they all video
and push big files or much files?

If your equipment is strong (powerful) enough you have no problems at all with pfSense.

At the WiFi section you may go with Layer3 Switches they route the entire WiFi traffic and some wifi ap´s from ubiquiti or less but more strong ruckus or aruba wifi
ap`s depending on the area you need to cover up.

But building a pfSense with captive portal and voucher
system and the vouchers will be send over sms is also
nice to handle that amount of clients fast and fine.

What is your equipment and what is your budget will
round up all the points at least.