Tutorial: Configuring pfSense as a WiFi Access Point

Is it best to buy Access Points and throw them in gateway mode and attach them to an RJ45 or just buy USB 3.0 WiFi cards and configure all the WiFi stuff under PFSense iyho?

BAM!! I'm in!! You have the freedom to set this wifi network with NO password. Perfection. Great Video thank you.

i try to use realtek wlan not support access point mode

Is there anyway I can set wan to use the wireless interface of machine ?

Can PfSense work as a Mesh Master? If so how do I set this up?

Guests Wifi at home or just something fun to bother the neighbor while sometimes they try go 'earn free wifi' with a 'free bad wifi connection', thanks for the video, :D, greetings and best wishes from Brazil.

Is it possible to link the guest vlan to the pfsense as a wifi access point?

As my pfsense Box is based in the cellar, which is actutally a dead zone for WiFi and comes with 2 Antennas already installed... this could may be used for connecting WiFi devices in the cellar to some other devices like for homa automatization or so...

I was able to get a wifi working. Thanks for the video.

Again far to fast ... assumed too much could you please give a diagram which explains what you are doing. Show you type stuff into an interface is not happening for me.

is MikroTik cAP ac Dual-band 802.11ac Wireless Access Point compatible with pfSense

Awsome videos. Created a pfsense with an hp t610 a few days ago with the help of the videos here. I was disapointed when the wifi card that came with it wanst compatible, untill i found out the one in my laptop was an atheros so i swapped them out for fun and worked like a charm. Altought performance isnt super. I find its great to have a second wifi. One with VPN connection and one without. I mostly use it for connecting my laptop within the same room.

HI Lawrence team, I have tried to contact you for Pfsense help, But still got no resposne

Sir I've a question you use external wireless card as internal in PCI slot .. can it work when I use usb wireless.... Because I try but when I go to wireless tab then they show not available

I managed to get it working in client mode. Took a while using trial and error for find settings would automatically reconnect after a reboot. Using it to wifi tether to my cell phone makes a decent backup connection. That said, I'd only recommend doing this if you already have a wifi card in your pfsense box.

the absolute headache when dealing with freebsd in general.

Thanks Tom I have used TP-link pci e it worked perfectly

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It has never been recommended by the pfsense team.

This video could not have been timed better. I have been a long time viewer of this channel and especially the pfSense related videos. I used Tom's video to help setup my first pfSense box in a Shuttle D2700 atom based PC. I used the built-in JMicron Gigabit ethernet port as LAN and an ASIX AX88179 USB3.0 to Ethernet adapter for the LAN side. This worked great back in the day when my ISP was at 20Mbps down /5Mbps Up. Unfortunately - for some reason - when I tried to use it earlier this week after we upgraded the service to 100Mbps down/10 Mbps Up, for some reason I noticed the download speeds would not go higher than ~45Mbps. I even tried the instructions in Tom's other video regarding Bubblebloat and my test result went from C+ to A+ but download speed was still capped at around 45Mbps. Needless to say, I switched to my other router for the time being as I investigate the issue (I already checked and looks like FreeBSD does support the ASIX chipset via the axge(4) driver). Anyway, as I use the pfSense box as "experimental box" for now, I decided to put an Atheros mini-PCI WiFi card (same one used by Tom in this video) and was able to setup WiFi. As indicated in this video, it would not be my main Access Point but I only planned to use it to cover a small "dead" area of my house that the "regular" Access Point has difficulty reaching (which is also the area my wife has picked to work from during the "shelter-in-place" orders for our state ☺. I do hope the WiFi functionality improves in pfSense - especially if/when people use it with the right hardware. But regardless, even though I am unable to use pfSense in my home network currently due to reasons stated above, I just wanted to post here and take opportunity to thank Tom and this channel for the videos and all that I have learned from the videos. Oh... and almost forgot to add - Tom's videos also helped me replace an off-the-shelf router at work with a UniFi USG and Access Point based solution at work. So much thanks for that as well 👍

Interesting, I wonder if I can just block all access to Pfsense on the LAN ports and just use this as a management connection from the laptop

"... because you can." The only reason!

pfSense can make a decent AP if you can manage without 802.11ac. It is picky when it comes to the choice of card though - my best experience was with an Atheros AR9380. The 9380 is a 450Mbps beast which seems to be capable of 30dBm in the 2.4Ghz spectrum and 22 or 23 in 5Ghz. The pfSense wireless AP solution does require some patience and testing to set up and - truth be told - can't match the WRT1900ACS I'm using today, but It can be done. I've done way too much AP configuring on pfSense to learn anything new here, but I still appreciate the video, Tom! I see you haven't yet done a video on PPPoE on pfSense; It's not all that exciting a subject, but hey, I'd love to see a video about it!

Was expecting a very short video simply saying "don't" 😀

Tom. I was brought in by the title. Stayed for the humour. Great video as always. I have learned so much from you.

Great Tom! Thanks!

EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR !!! THANK YOU