On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 4:09 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri 15 Jul 2016 16:58:34 NZST +1200, Alexandre Paradis wrote: > > > You could put a regular nic, then plug a regular home wifi router (with > > dhcp disabled) on one of the lan port. > > This is probably the best bet. It makes the location of the AP (antenna > position) independent of the location of the pfsense hardware. Putting a > wifi card into a pfsense box has all sorts of problems, missing/useless > Freebsd wifi drivers being a big one. > > It doesn't seem soeasy to find a reliably good AP though, at least for a > resonable budget. Vodafone New Zealand gave out Netcomm NP805N do-it-all > home rubbish^H^H^Hrouters. Yes you can disable dhcp on the wifi side, > but the thing is too dumb to forward wifi dhcp requests to pfsense so > Net-no-comm's only use is as a dust-collector. > > I have a USB wifi AP running (Tenda W322U), well sort of. > pfsense/freebsd's driver isn't very good and doesn't run the hardware at > full speed (54M only). Then make sure the USB thingie is always plugged > in and doesn't fail, because if it isn't present, pfsense doesn't even > boot any more... so you can't even fix the rules or plug a new one in. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header. > http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > _______________________________________________ > UniFi AP-AC-Pro is a great AP. Though to control it you have to run the controller software on a server, does not need to stay active all the time unless you need to use some of the active features. _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
