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apple iphone signal weak and poor speed on rb951Ui-2hnd

Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 10:20 am
by Emile
Mikrotik and apple issues
I have a client that live in an old farm house.
The bedroom wall is almost 1m thick and so I decided to put one rb951Ui-2hnd in the bedroom and another one in the centre of the house.
I have setup wifi on using same SSID, WPA2 aes but different channels.
All connected devices are apple iphones and ipads.
The owner of the house uses speedtest.net a lot and constantly complains to me about poor speed.
I have tried tweaking both routers by setting Hw. Protection Mode to CTS-TO-SELF, setting FREQUENCY MODE to regularity-domain, only set to use chain 0 instead of chain 0 and 1.
Today I reset the wireless interfaces on both routers to default and setup the SSID, WPA2 aes and regularity-domain but I set the tx power to 13(20 miliwatt)
Any advice to what else I can set to resolve this issue for good?
Also I would like to know is it better to set channel to auto select?

PS: Sorry for bad english

Re: apple iphone signal weak and poor speed on rb951Ui-2hnd

Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 10:49 am
by normis
Reset wireless interface to default and frequency to auto.

What are the exact signal levels in the router?

Re: apple iphone signal weak and poor speed on rb951Ui-2hnd

Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 10:34 pm
by haik01
If the client is complaining about speed, how sure can you be it is due to the WiFi? How is the backhaul (ADSL, cable, fibre, etc...) How is the quality of the ISP? Overbooking factor, time of day when speed problem are seen etc....

Do not blame directly to the Mikrotik, investigate from the back end first.

Re: apple iphone signal weak and poor speed on rb951Ui-2hnd

Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 5:28 pm
by Emile
Normis at the moment I have set data rate not to go higher that 18mbts. Also changed tx power back to default. I notice that all other devices usually connects well. Don't know if it is because he uses iphone s6.

Here is a printscreen of what it shows.

Re: apple iphone signal weak and poor speed on rb951Ui-2hnd

Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2016 11:10 am
by Emile
Solved by installing external antennas on the RB951 and also reset wireless to default.