This is a guess - but maybe because both wireless cards are physically right beside each other maybe their aerials are crosstalking.
Try moving the cards so they are in PCI slots as far apart as possible. If that doesn't help try a replacement aerial on a cable rather than a pencil aerial out the back of your NIC. This is what happens when 6 APs are all in the same room and arguing over channels. http://staff.avonside.school.nz/cf/lala-wireless.png Actual throughput was almost 0 because everything kept channel hopping to what looked clear. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Woodard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 June 2006 7:26 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [pfSense Support] Dual Wireless results for Bill M. I was testing a box with 2 wireless cards to try possible separate AP's in the same box and I promised I would give my results here. I have a test desktop and a test laptop. The desktop carries a "b" card while the laptop is "g" and both Pfsense cards are "g" Atheros cards (Dlink and Edimax). Under light load they seem to perform fine. However, I connected the desktop to the Dlink card and Dl'd a iso while just browsing with the laptop on the Edimax card. I began to notice pages would stall while loading and some would timeout alltogether. I didn't notice a problem with the iso downloading. I tried to put the dlink card on channel 1 and move the Edimax card to 11 but this was no help. It was suggested to try channel 1 & 6 as they interfere less but I haven't tested this yet, however, I do plan to. After seeing how things went last night unless more people can give me good success with this kind of setup I will probably not be putting this kind of setup into use anywhere. Jonathan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
