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      jgleadall
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      Hi i was curious if everybody else with wireless networks out there are getting a good amount of errors on their interfaces. its a EMP-8602+S High Power 802.11a/b/g miniPCI Radio Card on an ALIX 2D2 with dual wifi cards, i posted the setup in another thread(http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,38693.0.html). Everything is working good but i am concerned about the high amount of errors on the interface page, is this normal? also throughput doesn't seem to be that great(~1MB/sec), I'm assuming because of the errors. Any thoughts would be appreciated. thanks

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        rancor
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        Do you have anything else that is wireless near your box?

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          jgleadall
          last edited by

          a couple feet away is a cordless phone, think that might do it?

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            rancor
            last edited by

            @jgleadall:

            a couple feet away is a cordless phone, think that might do it?

            Yes. I don't know where you live but in Europe the DECT phones are in 2.4 GHz band and that are right where b and g and parts of n are.

            // rancor

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              jgleadall
              last edited by

              my phones are on 5.8 and my wifi is on 2.4, still think thats a problem?

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                rancor
                last edited by

                @jgleadall:

                my phones are on 5.8 and my wifi is on 2.4, still think thats a problem?

                Just test, unplug the power to the phones base station and make some test to see if the errors goes down =)

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                  jgleadall
                  last edited by

                  To be honest i dont really know how to find out when they are occurring. i just noticed there are a huge ammount

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                    wallabybob
                    last edited by

                    How many is "huge"?
                    For comparison, here are the counters (Status -> Interfaces) from the busiest WiFi link in my home network:

                    In/out packets         4428460/4426811 (1.36 GB/2.68 GB)
                    In/out packets (pass) 4426788/4404638 (1.36 GB/2.68 GB)
                    In/out packets (block) 1672/23 (143 KB/34 KB)
                    In/out errors         2/1494
                    Collisions             0

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                      jgleadall
                      last edited by

                      Ya mine is in that ballpark. There are about 10 other aps in my area, maybe that could be contributing to the errors?

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                        wallabybob
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                        Radio interference could lead to damaged packets (errors).

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