Lots of errors on wiif interface
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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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Do you have anything else that is wireless near your box?
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a couple feet away is a cordless phone, think that might do it?
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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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my phones are on 5.8 and my wifi is on 2.4, still think thats a problem?
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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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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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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
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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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Radio interference could lead to damaged packets (errors).