MikroTik

tapir

Where I have done 4G installs in the past I have made the LHG/SXT the router/firewall and run everything on a single subnet behind that. Either the AP or LHG can run your DHCP server - it doesn't really matter. You will have C-NAT as your on 4G anyway, so adding double-NAT to that is probably best a...

tapir

Audience is hopeless for mesh. I have three, all with good LOS and about 20m apart.. 100mb/s max

Still waiting for 4-address support on the wifiwave2 package so can actually make use of the hardware.

tapir

Been testing today... Either end of an open plan floor. Audience in client/AP - 150Mb/s Wifi60G - 800Mb/s I've installed them just above head height. Even when one fell off the wall (I'd stuck them up with masking tape for the test) - speed fell to 750Mbps! Going to install a pair of these and turn ...

tapir

I've got some WAP60s that I might try indoors - I currently use them to bridge my home to some outbuildings. Performance is superb (~800Mbps TCP). I bought some Audiences to use indoors (long narrow space) and they are frankly rubbish until such time as wifiwave2 supports bridging. I will have a cou...

tapir

That’s covered in my opening post

tapir

550mbps audience speed wave2... as an AP only.
No bridge mode yet. Doesn't help me.

tapir

Even 5m apart at 160Mhz I get 160Mbps TCP on the QCA9984 radio. Why is this device so bad PtMP? May try linking with the 5Ghz IPQ4019 instead as I get 300Mbps client to radio?? The Audience is shockingly bad for the purpose it is intended for as that fancy 4x4 radio is severely hampered by the drive...

tapir

The WAP60G AP and some WAP60G as clients works well. I have a trio running as PtMP and get just under 800MBs between outbuildings in my garden.

tapir

This can't come soon enough.. I invested in 3 audiences and regretted it since.
Cannot get more than around 160Mbps between them even if they are in the same room!

tapir

Patiently waiting for 4 address support to arrive in wifiwave2. However, in the meantime I remain convinced that MT wifi cannot be *that* bad and my config must be wonky somehow.. Even where two Audiences are in the same room 9 meters apart with LOS - I max out at around 150Mbps TCP between them on ...

tapir

Do note that Audience with current firmware won’t be any faster. It may even be slower. The Mikrotik drivers for the QCA9984 appear to be pretty poor. I get just over 200Mbps with two units in the same room.

The wifiwave2 drivers are quite limited at the moment. No bridging.

tapir

What channel width are you using?
I think by default it is set to 20/40. 20/40/80 XXXX may be worth a try if your client card supports an 80Mhz channel.

tapir

I put the ACV2 drivers on my Audience. It's set up as a 3 radio WAP ONLY. CAPS-MAN NO LONGER WORKS. Adding virtual APs has caused the radio to crash. Changing an SSID caused a radio to get stuck on searching for channel. But... When it's working... I finally get throughput ~ 400M/400M with a house ...

tapir

Hey, I got an Audience loaded with RC3 and WifiWave2. Wave2 package is here for about half a year. However, it seems to be very rough still. WifiWave2 doesn't seem to support clients in "station bridge" mode. I.e. proprietary extensions seem to be not in place for this driver yet - there'...

tapir

LEDs seem to be broken since v7.1rc1 on the Audience.
There is no way to configure the LEDs, it seems like they are not added to the boards configuration anymore.

2021-08-31_18-26.png

Same here. Blue led appears during boot, but green led during normal operation is not lit.

tapir

Hi.. I am using 802.11 - set to ac only. I’ve never tried nv2.
I always upgrade routerboard firmware at the same time as the packages.

Thanks!

tapir

Many thanks for taking the time to do this - it's really appreciated. I have altered my config a little with the test of wifiwave2 - I'm not currently running Capsman, but will likely re-introduce it as it will be super convenient when I install the CAPs in the outbuildings. However, I ran through t...

tapir

I am not meshing. I have them in a line through my house (also so I can reach outbuildings at the end of the house via a 60Ghz link). In mesh mode, the station roaming option makes them drop out every hour or so. The middle one is station ap and the other two are station bridges. Even though they ar...

tapir

No bridging with wifiwave2 so I'm back where I started.

tapir

Ah.. ok - understood. So, I need some other routing.
Between this and the loss of Capsman, I may just wait for it to mature a bit first.

tapir

I'm not using mesh - I'm using the wifi3 as AP and two clients to link them together.

tapir

I have 3 Audiences at home. Having been a bit underwhelmed with them I was keen to try the wifiwave2 package with ROS7.1rc1 I managed to get one setup as an AP on wifi3 (qca9984 radio) and another as client - all showing as connected, but cannot ping between them. It seems as if bridging wasn't work...

tapir

Cheers.. i may give that a go. Shame about capsman as I will have 5 APs eventually once I put a couple of cAPs in the outbuildings, but I can live with that.

tapir

Well. I tried 7.1 out of desperation. No improvement. I get 300Mbps+ from client to Audience on the ipq4019 with zero tweaking but at most 200Mbps between Audiences that are a few metres apart on QCA9984 radio which should be capable of much more. Wish I kept all the boxes now.. these haven't been t...

tapir

Is it worth upgrading to 7.1rc? I see many Audience users using ROS7 but nor sure if that’s just a coincidence.

tapir

Audience has station roaming enabled by default.
This caused continual disconnects for me until I switched it off. Stable since then. (I do have very poor throughout on wlan3 but that’s a different story).

tapir

Audience 1 # aug/25/2021 14:26:08 by RouterOS 6.48.4 # software id = GZ05-6SV0 # # model = RBD25G-5HPacQD2HPnD # serial number = D5860CE8C249 /interface bridge add admin-mac=48:8F:5A:CB:CB:03 auto-mac=no comment=defconf name=bridge /interface pppoe-client add add-default-route=yes allow=chap disable...

tapir

Maybe I miss something, but why do you need to access the device more than once? I’ve set up a number of these for a local rural community - they’ve all been running on a data plan on the same SIM for 2 years (apart from one where the SIM died for some reason).

tapir

Exports attached if further info required. I've invariably done something stupid!

edit - Replaced with exports in code tags below

tapir

I have also tried switching off Audience 3 and btesting between 1 and 2 (in the same room 20m apart) - 150/160 Mbps max TCP. iperf gives similar figures.

tapir

I have three Audiences in my house. One in each corner of a long open plan floor and then a third in an extension (as there is what was previously an exterior wall between the main building and the extension - it has LOS to the second Audience). Audience 1 - PPPoE - Internet and CAPSMAN (for regular...

tapir

I don't have an iPhone Xs to test with but does knocking the 5Ghz down to a 40Mhz channel width make any difference? I could see this potentially being an issue for some of our customers. I do run the 2.4 and 5Ghz on separate SSIDs so can just tell them use the 2.4Ghz radio for now.

tapir

Oops.. had this in my mind as being next month. Already committed to something on Monday.
Will keep an eye out for the next UK one!

tapir

Thanks pukkita.. Too used to traditional setups..
I hadn't thought of using another Mikrotik device (or possibly something with RouterOSx86 so I can use the disk for Dude) to manage the fleet.

Looks like the new Hex S is just what I need.

tapir

Is there an effective/simple way of managing a group of SXT LTEs? The 4G connections will obviously be lacking a fixed IP and be behind NAT so direct connection with Winbox etc won't be possible. I could get all the devices to log into a VPN but I'd prefer to not have to manage a VPN server just for...

tapir

I'm looking to put some SXT LTEs out into the field. These come with 6.42.x and I appear unable to downgrade them to bugfix (probably due to a lack of hardware support somewhere). I have created an update script that would update the SXTs when bugfix > installed, but then I would also miss out on fi...

Search found 36 matches

Re: Best practices to combine an LHG LTE Kit with a mesh of Audience devices

Re: Audience mesh: number of mesh APs and of clients?

Re: 60 GHz indoors?

Re: 60 GHz indoors?

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: PtMP Solution

Re: Using WifiWave2 to bridge two Audience wirelessly, thoughts?

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low WiFi speeds on hAP ac²

Re: Low WiFi speeds on hAP ac²

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: v7.1rc3 [development] is released!

Re: v7.1rc2 [development] is released!

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: wifiwave2 - WLAN bridging not working (2x Audience client/AP)

Re: wifiwave2 - WLAN bridging not working (2x Audience client/AP)

wifiwave2 - WLAN bridging not working (2x Audience client/AP)

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: 6.48.1 on Audience as a remote CAP

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Is there a way I can use eSIM with Mikrotik?

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: Low throughput with 3x Audience

Low throughput with 3x Audience

Re: WAP ac 5GHz issues with iPhone XS

Re: Birmingham MUM 2018

Re: Remote management of SXT LTEs

Remote management of SXT LTEs

Upgrade policy when factory packages > bugfix branch