pfSense as wireless AP transmit power adjustments?

provels

@JonathanLee Weird, but whatever works. With ng I get a -40db signal, with na I get -70.

stephenw10

5Ghz is more easily attenuated by anything.

JonathanLee

@johnpoz
It is the same upstream.

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/880

https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14925

provels

@JonathanLee Is this the Compex or the Apple card? I have the Compex and my txpower was set at 30 by pfSense. Also, the "txpower 40" argument seems to have no effect, stays at 30 for me.
Maybe that's because you're using na and not ng. EDIT - Yeah, that's it.

[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@fw.workgroup]/root: ifconfig ath0_wlan0 txpower 40
[23.05.1-RELEASE][root@fw.workgroup]/root: ifconfig ath0_wlan0
ath0_wlan0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        description: ATH0_WLE200
        ether 04:f0:21:4f:6e:e3
        inet6 fe80::6f0:21ff:fe4f:6ee3%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
        groups: wlan
        ssid WIFI_LAN_nomap channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g ht/20) bssid 04:f0:21:4f:6e:e3
        regdomain FCC country US indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i
        privacy MIXED deftxkey 3 AES-CCM 2:128-bit AES-CCM 3:128-bit
=>        txpower 30 scanvalid 60 pureg protmode OFF ampdulimit 64k
        ampdudensity 8 shortgi puren -ldpc -uapsd wme burst -apbridge
        dtimperiod 1 -dfs
        parent interface: ath0
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11ng <hostap>
        status: running
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

JonathanLee

@provels

@provels Take a look at this file with the built in editor in pfsense GUI

Screenshot 2023-10-31 at 7.49.01 AM.png

This may have blocked you from turning it up. It might be limited by way of this file. . .

Scroll down and find WiFi 11g and check for something called max power