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    TP-LINK TL-WN861N card bad reception

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      MisterE
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      Hi,

      I'm using a TP-LINK TL-WN861N wireless card in a Alix board.
      At first my machine did choke on the "N" mode, so i force it to "G".

      My reception is quite bad. Before i had a simple Linksys WRT54GL with much better reception.
      Even if i'm sitting next to the device i get not full bars.

      I tried those two antenna's (with different angle) (seperately):
      TP-Link TL-WN861N
      TP-Link TL-ANT2408CL

      Now i use two "cheap" antenna's from Ebay.
      All the same.

      vath0_wlan0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
              ether f8:d1:11:25:85:09
              inet6 fe80::fad1:11ff:fe25:8509%ath0_wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x9
              inet 192.168.4.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.4.255
              nd6 options=3 <performnud,accept_rtadv>media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>status: running
              ssid Edje channel 11 (2462 MHz 11g) bssid f8:d1:11:25:85:09
              regdomain 32924 country CN indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i -wps -tsn
              privacy MIXED deftxkey 2
              TKIP 2:128-bit
              TKIP 3:128-bit powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpower 20
              txpowmax 50.0 -dotd rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 bmiss 7
              11a    ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
              11b    ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
              11g    ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
              turboA  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
              turboG  ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
              sturbo  ucast NONE    mgmt  6 Mb/s mcast  6 Mb/s maxretry 6
              11na    ucast NONE    mgmt  0 MCS  mcast  0 MCS  maxretry 6
              11ng    ucast NONE    mgmt  0 MCS  mcast  0 MCS  maxretry 6
              half    ucast NONE    mgmt  3 Mb/s mcast  3 Mb/s maxretry 6
              quarter ucast NONE    mgmt  1 Mb/s mcast  1 Mb/s maxretry 6
              scanvalid 60 -bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
              roam:11a    rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
              roam:11b    rssi    7dBm rate  1 Mb/s
              roam:11g    rssi    7dBm rate  5 Mb/s
              roam:turboA  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
              roam:turboG  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
              roam:sturbo  rssi    7dBm rate 12 Mb/s
              roam:11na    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1
              roam:11ng    rssi    7dBm  MCS  1
              roam:half    rssi    7dBm rate  6 Mb/s
              roam:quarter rssi    7dBm rate  3 Mb/s
              -pureg protmode OFF -ht -htcompat -ampdu ampdulimit 8k
              ampdudensity NA -amsdu -shortgi htprotmode RTSCTS -puren smps -rifs
              -wme burst -dwds -hidessid -apbridge dtimperiod 1 doth -dfs inact
              bintval 100
              groups: wlan</hostap></performnud,accept_rtadv></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>

      I've tried to change my Region to New Zealand. So, now i can change the txpower to 30. Still the same.

      ifconfig ath0_wlan0 txpower 30

      I can't change the number in the Pfsense interface.

      Is this card not well supported in Pfsense/BSD?

      Any pointers?

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