The netgate-ish hardware with wifi capability?
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Netgate hardware for office networks where they have separate Wifi hardware, but I'd like to find an all-in-one SOHO router with Wifi that has pfSense (or at least doesn't block its installation). I looked around Netgate's offerings, but they don't offer a device with antenna connectors. I'd like to move off of my Asus RT-N66U with Asus-Merlin, which doesn't support pfSense, sadly. Does anyone have recommendations on for such a beast? Thanks in advance! UPDATE: Not looking for rackmount hardware
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My understanding is that pfsense doesn't do WiFi well. Regardless I prefer a separate AP for a variety of reasons. Unless your needs are limited, you will likely get better performance that way.
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It's the FreeBSD base / drivers that doesn't do WiFi well, not pfSense itself.
-Rico
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stephenw10 Netgate Administratorlast edited by stephenw10 Dec 2, 2020, 1:05 AM Dec 2, 2020, 1:05 AM
Yes, this is true. About the best you can do currently is an older Atheros card that can support 3x3 802.11N. That will get you a theoretical link speed of 450Mbps and probably somewhere in the region of 300Mbps actual throughput in good conditions.
But things are improving.
Steve
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Just another spammer lifting text from reddit..... sigh
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Yeah, same here: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/158771/netgate-3100-and-crypto-accelerator-in-openvpn
-Rico