Wle200nx or wle600vx from pcengines + pfsense working?

power

Hello everybody,

I am thinking about buying an apu from pcengines with wle200nx or wle600vx and installing pfsense on it.

As I have seen here:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3849
http://pcengines.info/forums/?page=post&id=54E788A4-636C-4D7F-B0DE-D1F798B7DD2F
the wle200nx should work with pfsense.

Has anyone experience with the Compex WLE600VX? Does it work with pfsense? How good is the performance?

Thanks in advance,
power

Has anyone experience with the Compex WLE600VX?

On the Varia-store website I was reading the following statement about this card:
Supports either CompexWRT with Atheros reference wireless driver or OpenWRT
with ath10k wireless driver on WPJ344

Does it work with pfsense?

I think there is no one, because the WiFi ac standard is not jet supported by pfSense.

How good is the performance?

I don´t know this really. But the tech. specs are only telling something about 876 MBit/s
and all other vendors with ac standard are at the stage of up to 1300 MBit/s, so you might
be expecting by yourself how fine this card will work.

At these days it would be better to go with a external wireless access point, to get a proper ac
standard that is reaching 1300 MBit/s and not only 876 MBit/s

TekLager

This is rather old post, but it's still a relevant question.

Compex wle600vx still doesn't work on the latest pfSense (tested on 2.4.2).

Compex wle200nx works well, and you can get just under 100Mbit/s throughput on it.

See the raw output from iperf3:

-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on 5201
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Accepted connection from 192.168.5.199, port 62899
[  5] local 192.168.5.186 port 5201 connected to 192.168.5.199 port 51784
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec  9.77 MBytes  82.0 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec  10.2 MBytes  85.2 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec  10.6 MBytes  89.1 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec  12.0 MBytes   101 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec  12.2 MBytes   102 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec  11.4 MBytes  95.4 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec  11.5 MBytes  96.4 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec  11.5 MBytes  96.2 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec  10.6 MBytes  88.7 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec  11.6 MBytes  97.3 Mbits/sec                  
[  5]  10.00-10.04  sec   533 KBytes   105 Mbits/sec                  
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bandwidth
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec  0.00 Bytes  0.00 bits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.04  sec   112 MBytes  93.4 Mbits/sec                  receiver

See the full throughput test here: https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/compex-wle200nx-wle600vx-benchmark/

stephenw10

Indeed, still no 802.11ac support in FreeBSD/pfSense. :( I still keep checking the FreeBSD wireless mailing list….

But, as you say, at least the WLE200NX works well enough for most applications.

Was that WLE600VX actually working in AC mode? I have seen very similar throughput to that with 3x3 802.11N setups.

Steve

Markynut

I would like to know whether it will work or not. Can you tell me?

stephenw10

Whether what will work exactly? More detail needed.

Steve