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      josephchrzempiec @stephenw10
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      @stephenw10 Got you Thank you. Now i have to figure the whole not letting users see the router and each other. The bandwidth part I think figured it out.

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        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Users don't see each other > 'client isolation' in the APs.

        Users don't see the firewall > firewall rules in pfSense.

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          josephchrzempiec @stephenw10
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          @stephenw10 Theses Ap are cheap chineses AP. they can see each other and no option to stop that as the firmware is limited. that is why they are cheap chinese AP.

          As far as the not seeing the router I will look into that. Thank you.

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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            Hmm, I would double check that. It might be renamed something by their firmware but I've never seen an AP that didn't have that option. It's a low level hardware setting that is present in everything.

            Or you might be able to flash them with a 3rd party firmware that does expose it like OpenWRT.

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              josephchrzempiec @stephenw10
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              @stephenw10 to be honest I'm not sure I will look through it again and look at the manual that was given as well.

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                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                What APs are they specifically?

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                  josephchrzempiec @stephenw10
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                  @stephenw10 I didn’t buy them. They was giving to me by a friend of mine. They look like they have custom firmware on them. I looked them up and found them on made in china website. link text

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                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by stephenw10

                    So actually Comfast CF-EW71 devices?

                    Looks like they have some central management. Do you have that?

                    If those are v2 hardware it looks like OpenWRT recently added support.

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                      NollipfSense
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                      May I suggest a Mikrotik AP device!

                      pfSense+ 23.09 Lenovo Thinkcentre M93P SFF Quadcore i7 dual Raid-ZFS 128GB-SSD 32GB-RAM PCI-Intel i350-t4 NIC, -Intel QAT 8950.
                      pfSense+ 23.09 VM-Proxmox, Dell Precision Xeon-W2155 Nvme 500GB-ZFS 128GB-RAM PCIe-Intel i350-t4, Intel QAT-8950, P-cloud.

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                        josephchrzempiec @stephenw10
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                          josephchrzempiec @NollipfSense
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                          @NollipfSense No money ot buy anything.

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                            josephchrzempiec @stephenw10
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                            @stephenw10 I have saw that controller itself can do pfsense. Because it is basically a computer/router. And I saw it can do that.

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                              Gertjan @josephchrzempiec
                              last edited by Gertjan

                              @josephchrzempiec said in A lot of users?:

                              Because it is basically a computer/router.

                              pfSense is based upon the 'less known' FreeBSD OS (that not MAC OS, neither Windows, neither Linux based).
                              Normally, a firewall router should stay a firewall router and should (edit) not host a game server, file sever, camera server and so on. "For security reasons".

                              Remember : the less tricks, tools, gadgets, stuff you use, the easier it is to maintain the system up and running => Keep It Simple. This will also help you keeping the costs down.

                              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                patient0 @Gertjan
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                                @Gertjan said in A lot of users?:

                                and should host also a a game server

                                did you mean to write: " and should <not> host also a a game server..."?

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                                  Gertjan @patient0
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                                  @patient0

                                  euh, yeah right, corrected, thanks.

                                  No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                                  Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @josephchrzempiec
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                                    @josephchrzempiec

                                    So, to be clear, you don't have the central controller for these APs? You only have the options available in the APs directly?

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