Chris Buechler schreef op 30-7-2015 om 8:55: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I run pfSense on a few ALIX boxes, usually as tunnel end and as access >> point. When I can plug one of these machines into any (wired) network, I >> have easy access to my home network through the private WLAN the ALIX >> provides. >> >> This works beautifully. >> >> I travel a lot and today hotels only provide WLAN access. Ethernet ports in >> hotel rooms are relics of the past.
You have a few choices here too, the term "travel router" has become a lot more common then before. The cheapest are ~30-40 euro. However, these are single radio, multiple SSID operation. This is bad as it has a large impact on the RF bandwidth, you double the amount of RF space you use with this method. Hotels and other networks really don't appreciate this. The current crown goes to the Dlink DIR510L which is a dual band travel router with dual radios (dual band) and a 4Ah battery for charging phones or operating on it. This you can attach to the wireless over 2.4Ghz and connect your laptop/ipad/phone to the hotspot router over 5Ghz and not impact the lackluster 2.4Ghz band. Excellent for sticking to a window where you do have reception in some of the concrete bunkers that we call hotel rooms. Also works well for RV's (Campers) when mounted on a stick or inside the roof window to get above all those aluminium boxes on wheels. I've considered building a package for pfSense to perform this travel router scenario to make it easier to do without requiring logging into pfSense itself. I never got round to it. I've found the wireless client support to be lacking in some respects during the 2.1 Cycle, might be quite a bit different now since I last tried this. In my case it started flapping the wireless link and cycling with DHCP requests. It was less then optimal :) Cheers, Seth _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
