Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 03:21:45 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point Message-ID: <12277.97919.qm@web36503.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4B6E95EA.6090009@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Thanks to everyone for the great advice. For clarity on this I erased all t= he other previous messages. =A0 The bottome line is I got it to work. It was a problem with my NATD setup o= n the server inside the LAN which is running as AP for the wireless compute= rs in my house. It's all working grea. And like some of you pointed out I w= as natd_interface-ing to the wrong interface. That's all fixed now but ther= e are a few bigs which I don't know can be worked out. =A0 The extisting wireless D-Link router has been trouble free since I installe= d it and we routinely acheive download speeds on the wireless machines in e= xcess of 100KB/s. It's also very fast to assign IP's and it just seems to w= ork every time. So why replace it you ask...because I'm a stupid hack who j= ust can't stop experimenting with FreeBSD servers. And I do want to use thi= s new AP server to replace my old file server which is running DHCP for the= 10.0.0.0/24 segment and is running Samba and aloowing wireless people who = visit my house to store and share files. The whole thing works great as it = is but the old FreeBSD server is old and needs to go and the D-Link router = is well just needs to go. =A0 Now the problem is that the new AP server while the CPU us very fast and I = have two massive 2 TB drives in it, is not up to snuff on the wireless AP. = It can take forever to get an IP address and most of the time I only end up= with limited connection. The worst thig though is that even when I do make= s soild connection with this AP the download speed is horrendously slow. L= ast night I began downloading the ISO-DVD1 image of the 8.0 source from fre= ebsd.org and the max speed I got was only 39KB/s which means the download w= ould have taken almost 10 hours. On the other hand I resetup with the D-Lin= k router and the download was only going to take 90 minutes for the same fi= le. =A0 Guess I'm not out of the woods on this one yet. But again thanks to all who= replied and offered the helpful advice.=0A=0A=0A
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