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yhfung

Thanks for TheCat12 and anav. The configuration of Router A # 2024-10-31 20:51:53 by RouterOS 7.16.1 # software id = <code> # # model = RB5009UG+S+ # serial number = <code> /interface bridge add admin-mac=78:9A:18:XX:XX:XX auto-mac=no comment=defconf name=bridge /interface wireguard add listen-port=...

yhfung

Perhaps my previous post is not clear. The router B is attached to Internet. The router A is not and connected to another router C connected to Internet. That means router A is a subnet of the router C.

Router B (NAT) --------- Internet------------Router C (NAT)-------Router A (NAT)

yhfung

There two sites can be accessed by Winbox without any problems. Two Mikrotik routers A (dt) and B (fs) are configured with Wireguard and tested without any problems using terminals. With Wireguard ip address 10.20.200.0/30 are assigned to them. Router A is got 12.20.200.2/30 and 10.20.200.1/30 assig...

yhfung

Wireguard and DNS static size over a certain limit causing an overflow problem The CCR1009-7G-1C-PC (client) and CCR1009-7G-1C-1S+PC (server) installed with v7.16.1, connected to the Internet. Both routers are connected without any problem via wireguard. The server can ping 10.10.100.2 to the client...

yhfung

I have the same question about this issue. However, I believe the following documents(2) is the right direction to go.

viewtopic.php?t=155718

yhfung

You have to assign an IP address for your WAP ac.

yhfung

[OriginalWifi] ---- [Groove] ---- [Smartphone1..N] Recently I did the same configuration as you did except the original WiFi was also an MikroTik router (hAP ac^2). It worked very well without any issue. If you have another MikroTik WiFi router, please try to replace the original WiFi with the Mikr...

yhfung

The line is at the bottom of the release announcement of v6.43rc17. https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=133420&start=100#p663507 In order to access router running this version by Winbox, please download v3.14rc Winbox loader from here: https://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/winb...

yhfung

I have the same login problem as the others have. However I could login the router using the old version WinBox 2.2.18.

Based on my initial test, the ping time for 5GHz seems better than the previous versions.

yhfung

strods, After having upgraded to rc17, I was no longer to login in the hAP ac^2 via WinBox 3.13. When I use the alternative way "using Webfig", after several trails, I could be able to login in. However I can login the router using the old WinBox software of version 2.2.18. Using the new W...

yhfung

Do not forget to disable the FastTrack option in the firewall otherwise strange problem may be arisen.

Once the problem is fixed, before re-activating the FastTrack, you have to exception rules before the FastTrack rules in the forward chain.

yhfung

I have just used the Setup Repeater Wizard to extend my WiFi (single SSID) from one place to another. However in your case, you have three SSIDs to be extended, I believe you need to run vlan on the cable connected to the remote AP (1 main SSID, and virtual SSIDs, the terms may be incorrect).

yhfung

I configured the system as per your request using the Repeater Setup Wizard.

I got the download speed 110Mbps using the same SSID as the main AP and with wired connection I got 150Mbps.

yhfung

MilosHlavicka, You do not need to do any forwarding action for the traffic. I hooked up the same system as you wanted as follows: 1. Reset your second router 2. Use the quickset to set up your router IP 3. Uncheck the DHCP server 4. Reboot the router 5. Connect any port other than WAN (ether1) With ...

yhfung

strods, When I tried to install the ntp package (downloaded zip file for rc12, extracted the ntp package and put it to the files folder) and found it did not work. The problem has been fixed because the main system package is rc11 and I installed rc12 ntp package. After upgrading the main package to...

yhfung

Please consider to report your problem via the support@mikrtotik.com, they will respond your problem very soon. In fact, you are helping MikroTik to improve the product performance for each upgrade. By the way, if your customers are happy with their settings, please do not upgrade the devices.

YH

yhfung

dougunder, I have modified the code a little bit such as "security-profile=default" and model="hAP ac^2". I put the following script to the terminal of RouterOS and pressed enter key. After a while, the scanning was completed. I carried out the iperf3 test and found the 2G perfor...

yhfung

dougunder, Thank you for sharing your script of setting up WiFi automatically. I am sorry that I am a newbie for RouterOS scripting, then I am not understand your script in full. Based on my limited scripting knowledge that you have pre-set a set of pre-defined values for channel-width, antenna-gain...

yhfung

startus， Both hAP ac and hAP ac^2 can fit your requirements. As the member "yottabit" has mentioned that the main benefits of using hAP ac are the higher WiFi transmission power and throughput. The downside of hAP ac is the routing power. Since both models can fit your requirement, you may...

yhfung

I have done the same experiment as you mentioned. The maximum throughput was reduced by half, i.e., around 120MHz something. The main 5GHz AP was connected to the AP station of the main router. I created a virtual AP (5GHz) and connected to my Macbook Pro Retina.

YH

yhfung

Please check whether the country of both APs is the same.

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yhfung

In order to help you, you have to specify the MikroTik model number with the firmware version that you have, otherwise we are not able to help to resolve your problems. Also you mentioned that your connected connected with WiFi, the speed was greatly reduced? What is the speed?

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yhfung

Bivvy, First of all, I guess you are talking about hAP ac^2 instead of hAP ac. They are two different models. Please note that the stable version of RouterOS on hAP ac^2 can not resolve the WiFi issues, you have to upgrade to the release candidate version of v6.43rc5 or above. Please update it to th...

yhfung

I have a similar setup like the author. You have to configure your wAP ac as per networkfudge except not enabling the DHCP server otherwise there are two DHCP servers in the same network segment. If you want to manage your wAP ac with IP address using winbox, then you may assign a static IP to your ...

yhfung

When I attented the MUM Japan 2018 yesterday via YouTube, one of your colleague mentioned that iOS Tik App is coming. Please advise when will the iOS one be available for use?

yhfung

How about the routerboard? Have you updated it?

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yhfung

dsoodak, You have to verify that the virtual AP named test is able to access the internet using any mobile WiFi devices that you have. In the remote site, you need to scan the SSID that you are able to see and then connect it if it is found. The remote router has two options. Option 1: Bridge mode Y...

yhfung

Hello atlanticd,

When I use ssh to my routerboard, it can show the correct number "2" in superscript mode. However in RouterOS terminal mode, it does not. I guess the terminal mode does not support displaying characters in superscript mode.

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yhfung

strods, Miner bug found on hAP ac^2, please see the board name and correct in the next release. [admin@MikroTik] /interface wireless> /system routerboard print routerboard: yes board-name: hAP ac (<--This should be hAP ac^2) model: RouterBOARD D52G-5HacD2HnD-TC serial-number: 8D1308291FAD firmware-t...

yhfung

haha！The initial factory configuration IS NOT for home use. It is for CPE connection. MT has to explain this initial configuration. As for me, the initial configuration should be dual home AP.

What are the maximum download speeds for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz?

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yhfung

Are you able to configure hAP ac^2 now?

YH

yhfung

Hello. Got a same problem. I'm use RB3011 as CAPsMAN controller and CAPac as AP. On 5GHz got maximum 13 Mbit/s download and 89 Mbit/s upload speed. If i use cable connection direct to RB3011, got about 90/90 Mbit/s... Distance between my laptop and CAPac about 150mm (yes, i'm try longer distance).....

yhfung

squeeze， Reading your post in this thread gives more information about the current status of MikroTik WiFi products. As per my memory in other forum, that forum members concluded that MikroTik WiFi routers or APs would not their choices due to extremely poor performance. MikroTik products are good a...

yhfung

in 5GHz with "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265" is tx rate only 54Mbit. In 2.4GHz is full speed. https://ctrlv.cz/shots/2018/05/06/ROE2.png Please consider to use the actual data transfer test tool, for instance iperf3. Regarding to your Intel AC adapter, please select something link &quo...

yhfung

I got a reply from the Support and the long ping time issue has already been resolved by disabling the FastTrack function in firewall filter rules. For details, please take a look at the following thread. https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=133894&p=659265#p658731 Thank the MikroT...

yhfung

I got a reply from MikroTik Support Team as shown below: 1) mark-routing and fasttrack-connection is not possible on the same traffic, so first i suggest to disable fasttrack-connection rules, reboot, to clear conntrack table, get your policy routing going, and then re-apply fasttrack-connection for...

yhfung

problems should be reported to support@mikrotik.com not on this forum.

Already reported to the Support at support@mikrotik.com in a few days ago and got the ticket number.

So far I have not received any (human) reply from the MikroTik Official.

YH

yhfung

How about the long ping time if the hAP ac^2 is configured as VPN client? Same issue also happens on RB951G with stable RouterOS v6.40.8. The problem has been reported in https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=133420&start=50#p658891, when v6.43rc5 is released. The most update infor...

yhfung

chechito, Thank you for your advice. If I do not have problems with hAP ac^2, I generally use stable RouterOS version and do not use any rc version. If PPTP does not work, sometimes I use SSTP or L2TP over IPSec. Since you have many devices that can be used for verifying this VPN client long ping ti...

yhfung

CZFan and chechito, Please note the same problem also happens in the old model RB951G. I included the name hAP ac^2 to arouse MikroTik's and other people's interest and concerns. The inclusion of firmware version to reflect the current status. If MikroTik does not modify the code, I do believe large...

yhfung

Can you test with something else, e.g. dslreports.com/speedtest and http://www.dslreports.com/tools/pingtest squeeze, Thank you for your link, which gives me more information about the latency to different places. In the following context, VPN client is referred to PPTP VPN client. I do believe oth...

yhfung

morph1, Many thanks for showing your revised chart including the firmware upgrade on hAP ac^2. Based on your chart figures, it shows clearly that the ping time is much larger than others. Because of the poor performance in wireless section (not only on hAP ac^2 prodcuts but all MikrotiK WiFi product...

yhfung

strods, Apart from the WiFi issue on hAP ac^2, I also found another problem when hAP ac^2 was configured as PPTP VPN client to another VPN server. The latency found was very large, it is over 1000ms. That was why I browsed websites such as www.YouTube.com, the pictures popped out very slowly. Beside...

yhfung

Thank you for your reply. check bandwidth usage over VPN to avoid saturation # When I used CCR1009 or X86 RouterOS, the maximum throughput after connecting the remote VPN server using PPTP was 20Mbps. When I switched to hAP ac^2 or RB951G, the maximum VPN speed is around 15Mbps. The current problem ...

yhfung

Hello, MikroTik Support Team Members, I had a problem with hAP ac^2 (RouterOS and firmware upgraded to v6.43rc5) after having crated a VPN connection to the remote RouterOS VPN server. My PC was connected to one of LAN ports, which directed data to the remote VPN server using policy-based routing me...

yhfung

mishle, You have two ways to achieve it. First method, as the previous member suggested, (Bridge mode) 1. you have to carry out system reset without any configuration, 2. Create a bridge 3. Add all the ports to the above bridge 4. click wireless tap for wlan1 and carry out the scan the SSID that you...

yhfung

Listing 1: Download Test on 5G hAP ac^2 with v6.43rc5 RouterOS uisng CHUWI ac interface (Intel Dual-Band Wireless-AC 3165) [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-10.02 sec 28.9 MBytes 24.2 Mbits/sec 0 sender You get no "Retr" from your TCP reverse tests? Or are you not using the &...

yhfung

My speed grealty improved after enabling "throughput booster" in Intel's wireless settings: device manager -> network adapters -> [your wireless card] -> advanced -> troughput booster -> enabled I am not certain what does it do but it may have something to do with timing and colission han...

yhfung

strods, Although the 5GHz of hAP ac^2 has already been resolved for my MacBook Pro Retina 2015 (I was able to get 380Mbps), there are still some problems with other 5G ac chip. For instance my CHIWU laptop pc equipped with Intel Dual-Band Wireless-AC 3165 (download speed is only 22Mbps). I have alre...

yhfung

Since I have four hAP ac^2, I can very whether it could happen only one of them or all of them. Based on the results obtained below, it shows clearly that the issue of download issue has not been resolved. The maximum download rate (File server (iperf3 server) -> WAN -> WLAN -> Laptop PC (MacBook Pr...

yhfung

It is very strange that I got very good results with my CHUWI notebook, in which Intel ac chip is used. However I forgot the model number. The download speed can reach over 200Mbps. Now I can get only 20Mbps. I have to find out the method to replicate the problem such that the Support Team is able t...

yhfung

Already done as per your request. They were connected via 5G ac link. If you find something strange, besides putting information here, you can also sent it to the Support for help.

YH

yhfung

This was not marked by me. I am not sure who marked it resolved. By the way, have you updated your RouterOS and firmware of hAP ac^2 to at least v6.43rc5? Now I am able to connect my remote AP station formed by an hAP ac^2 (R1) by another hAP ac^2 (R2) with two layers of concrete walls in between an...

yhfung

I know the way to improve the 2.4GHz performance. The following things that you may consider to deploy. 1. Use 802.11n only 2. Use Channel bandwidth 20MHz 3. Of course select the less and better channel using Android WiFi Analyzer or MikroTik Spectral Scan The following log, shown in Listing 2, is i...

yhfung

I am still having the following problems in 2.4GHz on hAP ac^2. 1. Ping time fluctuates a lot and sometime is very long. 2. The transfer rate is around 50Mbps, never go beyond 100Mbps. How about yours in these figures (ping time and transfer rate)? If I compared the following link, perhaps, the curr...

yhfung

I'm doing WiFi coverage tests between 2 Models: RBD52G-5HacD2HnD-TC (I will call it hAPac2) RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT (I will call it hAPac) WiFi comparison between hAP ac2 and hAP ac.png The suggested price of both models results in a price difference of $ 60.00 My question: Where is such a big differen...

yhfung

The 5GHz on hAP ac^2 has already been resolved since v6.53rc5.

For details, take a look at the following link:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648

yhfung

It is confirmed that the v6.43rc5 has been resolved the 5GHz WiFi issue on hAP ac^2. The download and upload speed can reach at least at 380Mbps for my MacBook Pro Retina 2015 and sometimes it is over 400Mbps. MikroTik Engineering Team has done a very great job this time. However I still have proble...

yhfung

Using btest.exe will never let you have 400+, it is limited to 3xx (around 330mbps) as confirmed in my previous test results. Try to use iperf3 if you want higher throughput.

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yhfung

Based on the presented results, the 5GHz WiFi was resolved as far as for my devices. However, I still have problems with 2.4GHz. How about yours? Do you have any problems with your 2.4GHz on hAP ac^2?

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yhfung

vecernik87, After having read your reply about the spectral scan and browse from the Internet, I found that there is a tool call Dude developed and distributed by MikroTik for free. In the past I have run the routerboard-based spectral scan but did not give much information except giving which frequ...

yhfung

morph1, I do not know whether you have upgraded the routerboard firmware as well (under system->routerboard tab). Based on my test results, I did not see many ping time longer than 100ms. You may refer to the previous post, as shown in Listing 2 of https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=...

yhfung

squeeze, Many thanks for your advice. I do not know the 2.4GHz WiFi problem came my side or something else. I need to carry out more tests as per your information/suggestions. However, the current release candidate of rc5 could resolve our 5GHz ac problem. It seems that there are some compatibility ...

yhfung

I am sorry that I did not include the test environment for the test result you saw. In fact, there was a wall in between the two routers. They were about 5m apart.

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yhfung

Concerning the hAP ac^2 2.4G issue, I got more results as follows. Test condition: Only one hAP ac^2 WiFi router in the test room. The WiFi radio was moved to the highest channel 2.472GHz with 20MHz radio bandwidth. A laptop of MacBook Pro Retina 2015 connected to the router via the 2.4GHz link. Bas...

yhfung

added remarks. The two routers are about 5m away with a concrete wall in between. I did not take down the test results with only laptop to the R1. Also I included a log of using labtop MacBook to the remote R1, the test results is summarised below: [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr [ 5] 0.00-300....

yhfung

Here are my iperf3 test results for the hAP ac2 with firmware 6.43.rc5 using 5G AC only unfortunately the performance is only marginally better by 10% [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.00-60.00 sec 789 MBytes 110 Mbits/sec sender [ 4] 0.00-60.00 sec 789 MBytes 110 Mbits/sec receiver[/code] S...

yhfung

yhfung - I am sorry to bother you with this. Thank you for your effort and all tests but there was a misunderstanding - I did not ask for turning off other devices but for detection of interference. Thing is that even simple devices as power supplies have some EM field and if wrongly designed, it c...

yhfung

You have to specify the ac device that you used. For my case, I used MacBook Pro Retina 2015. Also CHUWI computer, etc.

yhfung

morph1, Your graphs gives a lot of information to us. Would you mind to provide the model number of each plot such that we are all benefited. Also I am very interested in interpreting the chart since I have not used MATLAB for a long time after leaving university. Could you please tell me how to rea...

yhfung

morph1， Thank you very much for your information of how to collect the data. In the past when I was in university, I often used the MATLAB for data analysis. Now I do not have MATLAB program, I am not able to use the MATLAB .m file. As you have seen my test results on 5GHz WiFi in other thread, the ...

yhfung

For comparison, I have made a ping time for 2.4GHz of my hAP ac lite tower. The results are not very good and is very similar to hAP ac^2 2.4G. I guess this is a general problem in MikroTik 2.4G WiFi interface. If MikroTik can resolve this issue, then the sales of APs of MikrroTik will be increased ...

yhfung

vecernik87, For the sake of other interference, I switched off the Siemens DECT phone and hAP ac lite tower, then I carried out ping test for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz with the following results. Based on the last message from the ping, that is "round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.816/317.053/1611.294...

yhfung

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May I know how to produce the picture that you shown? Also how to collect the readings using ping?

Many thanks.

YH

yhfung

In this morning, I carried out the 5GHz and 2.4GHz test. I found that the 5GHz now is very stable using the rc5. There are still problems with 2.4GHz, please take a look at the following listing. Please note there are some disconnection found in the middle of the listing. Also the ping time is extre...

yhfung

Please consider to the following steps to resolve your issue: 1. Detach wlan from "bridge" 2. Click wlan and do scanning for the selected SSID that you want to connect with. 3. Using ip-firewall-nat for routing scrnat to wlan via masqurade 4. You may create a virtual interface and attach t...

yhfung

Based on the presented results, it is confirmed the new rc5 works for my Macbook Pro Retina 2015 for 5GHz connection. However when I compared the 2.4GHz results, it seems that the results look very similar. There is no significant improvement if we compared the speed and Retr count number. If MikroT...

yhfung

I have got the reply form MikroTik Support about the new rc of verion 5. I followed his e-mail to download the rc5 firmware and uploaded to the device. For my case (MacBook Pro Rentina 2015), the results looks very good. MikroTik Engineering Team has done a good job! Besides using the MacBook Pro Re...

yhfung

Try to replace another power supply adapter to your hAP ac.

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yhfung

Hi, I have a Mikrotik Router which I connect to the DSL modem. The DSL modem is in bridge modem. I configured the PPPOE client setting on the Mikrotik to perform the authentication. Now the Mikrotik has the ISP IP and I am able to ping to the public IP's through the Mikrotik router terminal interfa...

yhfung

You may upgrade to the newest version of firmware. For the sake of safety, it is advised that you have to make a back of configuration and store it locally in your PC otherwise it may be lost after upgrade.

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yhfung

The most recent RC v6.43rc4 does not resolve the WiFi issue of hAP ac^2. I did not put the log listing of the log and only a summary is provided below. As you can in Listing 1, the average speed is still only 117Mbps and the value of Retr is 5577 (packet retry due to errors), which is the same as be...

yhfung

Can MT provide the following settings for the speed you have tested? PC1(iperf3) <--> ether1 (hAP AC2) wlan <------eCee 5G--------> wlan (hAP AC2) ether1 <--> PC2(iperf3) I can only reach 280Mbps. Is this normal? ML You mentioned that you can get 280Mbps! Is it stable at 280Mbps? I modified the abo...

yhfung

Jarda already wrote that he is in contact with support. Thank you for that. We have currently not seen any issues outside this Forum thread. It could be a combination of specific factors, this is why we ask you to contact MikroTik with details of your setup. Thank normis for responding this thread....

yhfung

In general, you have to disable all except ssh with other port number. Also the password should be strong enough to against hackers. It means the password should not be very simple. It may contains Upper and local case letters, numbers and symbols. The length should be at least 8 or more. For me I u...

yhfung

Regarding the v6.43rc3, the WiFi performance is the same as v6.42. There is no improvement found in this release candidate. For details for the test, please refer to the following post.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648&start=100#p655666

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yhfung

I got the message of new release candidate of v6.43rc3, I started to carry out the three downstream tests with the following summary: File server -> network switch -> WAN of hAP ac^2 -> WLAN 5GHz -> PC (MacBook Pro Retina 2015), 163 Mbps, Retr=5709 File server -> network switch -> WAN of hAP ac^2 ->...

yhfung

Nevertheless, both the Company and customers learned a great lesson from hAP ac^2, launched in 2018. Back to my findings, it is supposed that there are two hAP ac^2s, namely R1 and R2. They are configured as back-to-back via the 5GHz wireless link. The WAN port of R1 connected to the Internet via a ...

yhfung

Look this review: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/luma-router,review-3959.html Maybe the Qualcomm chip has this maximum performance .... # How far that MikroTik hAP ac^2 can go? With reference to similar products using the same chipset IPQ4019 or IPQ4018 [1,2], we may guess the answers. in [1] The bes...

yhfung

Ping time of hAP ac lite tower and hAP ac^2 comparisons hAP ac lite tower 2.4GHz ping time: round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.918/81.193/1743.389/229.197 ms hAP ac lite tower 5GHz ping time: round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.976/4.430/115.216/10.434 ms hAP ac^2 2.4GHz ping time: round-trip min/avg/m...

yhfung

Since I have bought different routers from MikroTik distributor, one of them is hAP ac lite tower. I also carried out the same test as the previous post. The firmware was installed in hAP ac lite tower is v6.40.6 （bugfix version). The average download speed for 2.4GHz is 54Mbps and Retr=1235. The av...

yhfung

In order to find out the cause of the problem, I attempt to compare the results obtained in RB951G-2HnD with the latest firmware v6.42. The download speed and the Retr count are 47.8 Mbps and 867, respectively. They are more less the same as the hAP ac^2 2.4GHz performance except the value of Retr. ...

yhfung

After have hardware reset my unit, I repeated the tests on 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. The results are The download speed for 2.4GHz is 55Mbps, Retr=1481. The download speed for 5GHz is 124Mbps, Retr=6418. The target for 2.4GHz for n is 200Mbps with zero count in Retr The target for 5GHz for ac is 500Mbp...

yhfung

After the hardware reset the unit, I performed the two band tests (2.4GHz and 5GHz). Firmware is v6.42. The download speed for 2.4GHz is 55Mbps, Retr=1481. The download speed for 5GHz is 124Mbps, Retr=6418. The target for 2.4GHz for n is 200Mbps with zero count in Retr The target for 5GHz for ac is ...

yhfung

yhfung,jrpaz - We are still working on improvements. Hopefully we will provide improvements as soon as possible within 6.43rc version. strods, Please ignore the following post since I am able to get better reset after a hardware reset when the unit is no longer accessible by winbox. Now the unit is...

yhfung

Please ignore the following post since I am able to recover the unit after hardware reset the unit since the unit is no longer be accessible. After the hardware reset, the unit becomes normal. I kept the following post for the record purpose. YH ===== In the past, we put our eyes on the 5GHz ac perf...

yhfung

The answer is no since the results are the same as I have done using v6.42rc56 as reported in the following post.

viewtopic.php?f=21&t=133272#p654799

We are looking for the help from MikroTik to resolve this WiFi issue.

YH

yhfung

It seems the results on hAP ac^2 using the new firmware v6.42 is more or less the same as v6.42rc52. Please take a look at the following five runs. The results are still not satisfactory as the average speed is around 130Mbps something, which is pretty far away from our expectations of over 300Mbps ...

yhfung

I have already sent my reply to MikroTik Support by including the test results of single frequency of bridge mode since I do not have much time to do. Based on the readings shown in the log below, it shows that the download rate is not stable and the value Retr 402 (packet retry count due to errors)...

yhfung

In the past I was an electronic design engineer, good product performance should be easily able to get by most users. How comes there are so many users having the same WiFi problems when the product was launched? Performance was improved by the Release Candidate but not high and stable enough. Also ...

yhfung

Finally, I am able to receive a formal reply from MikroTik about the problems found in hAP ac^2, as follows. However he said that he was not able to replicate the problems that I had. Also he could get very good results of 300Mbps via the WiFi. When I have time, I shall follow his guide to see wheth...

yhfung

Besides hAP ac^2 router, I also have wAP ac. The test results of wAP ac are as follows: Based on the figures presented, wAP ac is much better than hAP ac^2 higher and stable throughput and with lower Retr value. The Retr count in hAP ac^2 is almost ten times higher than of wAP ac. Also the download ...

yhfung

I have already done tests based on hAP ac^2 and wAP ac, as follows: Since the chipset of hAP ac^2 is similar to that of cAP ac, I do believe you can take a look at them when you do comparisons. Based on the figures presented, it definitely and clearly shows that wAP ac is much better and hAP ac^2. S...

yhfung

jarda， Thank you very much for following up this issue. However I have not received any response for my email sent to MirkroTik Support yet at the same day that you sent. I believe that they may send a reply to me later. I believe the reply would be very similar to the one that you presented. Since ...

yhfung

There are more results on other model of R951G-2HhD. Our target is to get Retr to be zero and Bandwidth as high as possible. For LAN connection, it is unacceptable for such high Retr value, which is expected to be zero or close to zero. R951G-2HhD v6.40.6 Wired, File->WAN->LAN->Laptop PC [ ID] Inter...

yhfung

After having inspired by nemoforum, I learned the way to determine the download speed (WAN->WLAN) using iperf3 with the option -R. In the following results, we can measure how good/bad of the wired/wireless link using the 5-minute iperf3 download test. Whenever you read the subsequent listings, plea...

yhfung

I've bought hAP ac^2, configured it and got an issue: transferring speed from LAN device (micro server with 1 Gbps eth) to Wi-Fi 5GHz device is VERY low and unstable: 0.5..2..5..20..50 Mbps, tested with two 5GHz devices with iperf3. What's wrong with LAN (server) -> Wi-Fi 5GHz (device *) ?! When wi...

yhfung

nemoforum, I did not realised the difference and misinterpreted the sender and receiver. I thought the client (laptop PC) acted both functions. Anyway after I have got your message, I re-ran the tests with the option -R and got the following results. Apart from the throughput rates, we need to obser...

yhfung

yhfung , Could you please also make LAN(eth) <-> WLAN tests, as I did in another topic. Thanks! As per your request, I have done a number of tests relating the issue "LAN(eth) <---> WLAN" that you concerned as follows: Figure 1 shows the setup configuration for the subsequent tests includ...

yhfung

jarda, thank you very much for relaying my concerns to MikroTik Support. I have also sent an e-mail to the Support at the same day as you did. My ticket number is [Ticket#2018041022002906]. However they have not asked for any details up to this moment except asking me for renewal my MikroTik Certifi...

yhfung

I have done some tests on hAP ac lite, the results on 5G ac looks very good (can maintain at 89Mbps), for details, please take at the following thread:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648#p651751

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yhfung

My assumption stated in post #37 https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648&sid=9c297b1e56feffcdc6fbabc8727421f8#p653321 is not as good as I expected. Although the test for the internal btest server was good, as show in Figure 1, I was not able to obtain satisfied file download te...

yhfung

All the testes carried out are for downloading only and use BTest.exe on MacBook Pro via WINE. If the downloading results are satisfactory, I shall continue to work with other tests on uploading side.

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yhfung

Since I have done a number of tests on hAP ac^2 and got some findings for sharing. Let R1 be the hAP ac^2 Test 1. Laptop -> LAN -> Bridge of R1 -> WAN -> External BTest server: Performance very good Test 2. Laptop -> wireless -> Bridge of R1 -> External BTest server: Performance very bad Test 3. Lap...

yhfung

Has anyone sent email to support? What was the answer?

No for me!

I thought they have seen it but I deliberately sent one just a few minutes ago.

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yhfung

Interesting issue! Has anyone tried connecting two hAP AC2's to each other and seeing what throughput is that way? That way it should not have any incompatibility issues. p.s. Always use iperf3 to test through the device, never use the performance test on the device itself because it will load the ...

yhfung

This testing release (v6.42rc56) cannot resolve the poor WiFi performance issue in hAP ac^2. For details, please refer to the following link:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648&p=653102#p653102

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yhfung

Today, I found that there is a new test candidate available for evaluation. I update the firmware in my hAP ac^2 and the following results as shown in Figures 1 and 2. It seems that there is not much speed improvement since v6.42r52. The 5G transmission rate, as shown in Figure 2, looks very terribl...

yhfung

If you are able to get gigabit speed from local ISP and you are not happy with hEX and RB3011, then you may consider CCR1009 router. I have brought two located in different countries. Back to your question, you are asking for the comments on the two products wAP ac and cAP ac. I do not know whether ...

yhfung

That's why MikroTik introduces the multiple core IPQ401X products like cAP ac and hAP ac^2. Also perhaps, they may develop products using Intel multiple core CPU like Apple does.

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yhfung

See this post.

How comes the above thread was locked?

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yhfung

Both methods can work. Depending on the policy or preference, some company prefer fixed IP to dynamic IP. I believe that the control for fixed is much easier. However it requires more settings. If we use the DHCP client method, the connected device can receive not only IP but also dns server and gat...

yhfung

Is it possible to change .mynetname.net address for VPN access on router? I bought used MikroTik router and want to change this address. The answer is no but you can use another ddns, for instance changeip. For details, please take a look at the following posts. http://www.telecom-cafe.com/forum/vi...

yhfung

I have done this exercise without any problems encountered. In order to get the IP address from the remote AP, you have to do the following tasks: 1. Detach wlan1 (if you want it to be your wireless WAN) from the bridge 2. Click wlan1 and scan the remote AP that you want 3. Select the remote AP that...

yhfung

Besides using vlan, you may create a virtual AP with different IP address that you want. You have to create different IP pool for the newly created virtual AP with suitable routes and masquerade NAT.

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yhfung

............ Back to topic: It would be great, If you post your benchmarks with 6.40.7 and 6.41.3. Results are already uploaded for 6.40.7. The point is how comes the stock firmware (or production firmware) v6.40.5 performs so badly and released to the market for sales! I had been a quality control...

yhfung

CAP AC is no better for me either. I need to pick up a different access point in the short term. Since both products (cAP ac and hAP ac^2) appear almost at the same time with the same chipset and there are tons of complaints about the 5G wifi poor performance, MikroTik Engineering Team has to take ...

yhfung

The bug fixed version of v6.40.7 does not solve the poor performance of WiFi in hAP ac^2 router. The average speed of 5G ac WiFi is only 25Mbps.

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648&p=652859#p652859

yhfung

Since the factory version is v6.40.5, I expected the bug fixed version of v6.40.7 should clean the bugs in the previous version. As seen in the following figure, the 5G WiFi results are terribly bad. The average speed is around 25Mbps, which is much below our expectation of 500Mbps for ac products. ...

yhfung

I am sure but they are preset to auto mode. I can use fixed frequency if you want. I use WiFi analyzer to confirm there are no interference among other 5G frequency.

You meant I need to choose different frequency to seek for higher stability, right?

yhfung

In this morning, I checked the performance of my hAP ac^2 WiFi router using MT btest.exe software. Initially it performed very well as shown in Figure 1. It just ran for a few seconds and disconnected suddenly. I re-started the test again and got the results as shown in Figure 2. Based on the result...

yhfung

I have already created another thread concentrating on the status of the WiFi problems found in hAP ac^2 in the following thread. https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648&p=651986#p651751 Even applied the most recent RC (V6.42RC52), although the speed for 5G WiFi has already bee...

yhfung

Perhaps the problems stem from RouterOS using an extremely outdated kernel (v3.3.5, May 2012). The latest ath10k driver for the IPQ401x wireless chipset requires a newer kernel, so maybe Mikrotik decided to write their own driver for that reason. But there exists a backport project too for older ke...

yhfung

Does anyone know whether MikroTik are still working on this poor WiFi performance? Since this issue has already driven many MikroTik users to purchase other brand's AC products due to the unexpected and extremely poor WiFi performance. Mikrotik has decided to develop its own chipset driver, and the...

yhfung

Mikrotik has decided to develop its own chipset driver, and thereby turned into a one-way street that is not even possible fixed, wait for mum this week, but not so much hope Many thanks for letting me know the MikroTik planning to resolve this performance issue by redesign their own chipset driver...

yhfung

Someone has removed the word "SOLVED" from the thread title. 2 May 2018 --- As requested by one of Forum member, I add "Not" solved in the heading. https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=132648&start=200#p658634 YH 1st May 2018 ------- The WiFi issues on hAP ac^2 ...

yhfung

When you compare tests made with different tools (e.g. iperf VS. CIFS) you have to be aware of behaviour of test "tools". Tests done using iperf are not affected by latency much (apart from usual TCP slow-start) while some more "chatty" protocol (such as CIFS file transfer) can ...

yhfung

I know that there are some problems in the WiFi section of hAP ac^2. There are significantly improvement with V6.42rc52, however, this is not enough. Please take at take at the following figures: iperf3 server installed on a QNAP NAS iperf3 client installed on MacBook Pro 5G With WiFi Password, Firm...

yhfung

I tried almost everything, nothing helped. Then I tried newest RC firmware. I saw incrase in WiFi download speed immediately. I guess that there are no stable FW with fixed WiFi on Ac^2 out there yet. But I'm glad that this problem is fixed on RC fw. 1. Could you please tell me what is the final do...

yhfung

When I attempted to download btest.exe from the "Useful tools and utlities", I found that they are no longer appear. Please tell me where I can find them.

Thank you.

yhfung

I have the same problem as well. How comes for the simple problem not having resolved for a year?

yhfung

I believe that there are some members would like to know how to set up RouterOS using IKEv2 with RSA authentication to work with iOS devices (iPhone or iPad). After the IPSec connection in IKEv2 mode, they would like the iOS devices is not only able to connect the remote network but also direct all ...

yhfung

Hello, The main purpose of using CRS2xx series switch is to limit the traffic based on the destination hostnames or IP addresses. Since I found no examples of using Access Control List (ACL) on CRS2xx series [1], can anyone provide any links showing the examples of using ACL on CRS2xx series? The mo...

yhfung

First of all, thank normis's and jebz's information. Finally, I got the method to get the vpn working. Once you tick "VPN Access", the Routers does the following things for you 1) Create the ppp secret (vpn login credentials) (/ppp secret pirint) 2) Create the firewall for you as follows: ...

yhfung

Hello, When I used WinBox on RouterOS V6.18 and switched to the Quick Set: Home AP mode, there was a section for vpn access. After I ticked the box for vpn access, the section expanded to allow me to type in VPN Password. My question is how do we use this feature? How to use this feature? I attempte...

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