Thank you for the suggestion. However, the AP is a Atheros wireless card
installed in pfsense as an AP. As an update, I have wiped the router
since it appears that my log files were corrupted somehow. I'll be
trying it again on a fresh install and maybe that will help. Any other
suggestions are most welcome.
Jonathan
Ryan L. Rodrigue wrote:
This is just one goofy man's opinion, but couldn't you connect your access point
to a switch on your network instead of to your router. I realise this is not the
most ideal meathod, but it is an alternative that should allow you to desegregate
your network. Or maybe I am wrong and someone will tell me that. At the very
least maybe an intelligent person may step in and give you the answer you are
looking for. > Ryan
"A Penny Saved is a Penny Taxed"
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Woodard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 1:32 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless problems...HELP PLEASE
I could still use some help with this. I have half of my network
segregated off because of this and I really need them to all be on the
same subnet. I know that there are no AP's in the area. And as I
mentioned below the sluggish performance goes away when I unbridge the
interface. LOL, however this defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to
do. Thank you again for any help.
Jonathan
Jonathan Woodard wrote:
I'm sorry to keep bringing this up but maybe this will help someone
out later. Again, the AP interface was originally bridged to the LAN
interface. I did this because I wanted my server 2k3 box to be the
only dhcp server on the network. But, for testing, I took down the
bridge and let pfsense do the dhcp for the AP. This made a very
significant difference in the time it took for the desktop to get an
IP aside from the fact that it got an IP at all. Traffic didn't start
flowing however until I rebooted pfsense. Currently I have internet
and can still get to other machines on the network however not with
their dns name. I would be happy with this except it worked the other
way at one point and I'd like it that way again. I notice that
browsing the net is much smoother now that the interface is unbridged.
Probably I'm missing something but I just wondered if it was a bug
somewhere that during bridging traffic isn't getting routed/passed
right. Upon Scott's advice I did a cvs_sync this morning so I assume
I'm running the very latest build. As always I would appreciate very
much your suggestions and comments. Thank you
Jonathan
Jonathan Woodard wrote:
I also have a router that is on my workbench that is acting as a
wireless client and it is also giving the same problems. I live in
the middle of 3 acres in a very small town so I know there is no
other AP's in distance. There is really nothing else here that causes
a problem. When I turn my old netgear "b" AP on everything works
great with it. The AP card might very well be crappy but it would
surpsrise me since it's worked like a champ until now. Thank you for
your suggestions however. :-) Any other advice I would welcome.
Jonathan
Holger Bauer wrote:
Sounds like noise to me. Check out your neighbourhood for
interfering channels (you can do so for example by scanning with
http://netstumbler.com/ for other accesspoint). Also other devices
can interfere with wireless that won't be listed with netstumbler
(like for example wireless home video transmitters; Check your
environment for devices that might cause noise). Also maybe the
wireless card of the client that is having issues is just crappy as
another one works.
Holger
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Woodard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 1:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Wireless problems...spoke too soon
Well, apparantly that didn't fix it completely. I can no longer get
an IP from the wireless. Again, the AP connects fine but dhcp will
not give me an IP. I tried with my laptop and it didn't work then i
moved it closer and it gave me an address so I'm assuming is a range
issue. However everything suggests that the range is very good to
excellent. I walked farther away with my laptop and got an IP but
the connections timed out several times when I tried browsing the
internet. Again any suggestions would be appreciated.
Btw, this is the card I'm using. It is an Atheros chipset. EDIMAX
EW-7325IG PCI Wireless LAN Card - Retail
Jonathan
Scott Ullrich wrote: On 6/24/06, Jonathan Woodard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, I am able to get an IP with the desktop now so I would assume
that fixed it. I would still like to know what was happening but if
no one knows I'll be happy it works for now. :-)
thanks for the quick help Scott.
Let's just say there where some pretty obvious bugs with non ath cards.
Scott
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