On Jan 13, 2012, at 8:24 PM, mdh wrote: > Hey folks, a few quick questions. > > 1> If I want to use pfSense as an 802.11g access point, does this work well?
It works well-enough. It's not perfect, and there is no 802.11n support, currently. > 2> Any specific suggestions on sub-$50 [USD] PCI or USB wireless cards for > this purpose? Any to stay away from? External antenna strongly preferred. My ability to contribute here is quite limited. > 3> If I wanted to speed up WPA2/AES a bit for a larger number of connections, > would a Soekris PCI crypto card be a good choice? Would it be plug-and-play > or would I need to change any configs to use it? Would it need any changes > to be used for other stuff (like OpenVPN, or other crypto-heavy processes)? Most of the modern 802.11 chipsets have enough on-board crypto-processor to handle AES at full speed. Jim _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
