Pf sense captive portal

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I am using a captive portal and my connection is really slow but whenever I remove it, the connection gets better

Gertjan

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And you have a question ?

If so, don't forget to detail your settings.

Btw : my portal access isn't great neither.
And I know why.
When I plug myself into the switch that is connected to the pfSense portal, get get the full 'nearly' 1Gbit up and down, as that is the speed of my ISP.
So, you get it, my APs are the limiting factor.

When a portal user is connected, the user's IP and MAC are added to the 'pf' firewall table that contain the authorized users. This pf rule (tbale) is like any other firewall rule, and doesn't limit the connection.
For every connected user there is a also a 'limiter', you can see them here : Diagnostics > Limiter Info
and default they are :

Limiters:
02010: unlimited         0 ms burst 0 
q133082 100 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 67546 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
 sched 67546 type FIFO flags 0x0 16 buckets 0 active
02011: unlimited         0 ms burst 0 
q133083 100 sl. 0 flows (1 buckets) sched 67547 weight 0 lmax 0 pri 0 droptail
 sched 67547 type FIFO flags 0x0 16 buckets 0 active
02008: unlimited         0 ms burst 0
......

== unlimited.