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Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 12:30 pm

Hi,

What could cause poor wireless performance of hAP AC RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT? I can achieve only about 20mbit/s download and 40mbit/s upload throughput. Hap AC is managed from a capsman. Could it cause problems? I have tested performance with Macbook pro, Macbook air and different android devices. Distance from AP doesn't matter, result is always same. Is there something I could check? Could it be device failure?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 1:32 pm

Caps Controller is on HAP ac too?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:24 pm

No, CAPSMAN is on a CRS125 which is my internet gateway and router between VLANs. Is that a problem?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:48 pm

Try local forwarding
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:20 pm

If I turn local forwarding on, I will lost network connection completely.
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 5:54 pm

For local forwarding to work you got to setup your L2 network accordingly and configure the bridge to drop the traffic on the CAP.
Without local forwarding all your traffic will be tunneled (possibly encrypted) to the CapsMan, that's not a good idea on a device with low CPU power.
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:36 pm

Well, my internet connection is on CAPSMAN device so it will in any case forward to that same switch.

Even if the problem would be in CAPSMAN and low cpu power how could uplink throughput be twice as downlink?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:13 pm

Routing and Capsman Controller on such lower power switch is no good idea!
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:17 pm

Ok. I will try without capsman
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 16, 2018 10:35 pm

Tried without capsman and results are same. With 2.4GHz troughput down 2mbit/s up 10mbit/s. Wiht 5GHz down 20mbit/s up 40mbit/s. Is my hap ac faulty?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:49 pm

What firmware version are you using?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Sat Nov 17, 2018 8:54 pm

Latesta and greatest released version v6.43.4. Should I try some other version? Is there known issues with this one?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Sat Nov 17, 2018 9:51 pm

Hi,

Have you also tried upgrading routerboard firmware under System > Routerboard > Upgrade?
You might also want to check the wireless encryption method ie. aes or tkip. It is better to use aes ccm only as tkip is slower.
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Mon Nov 19, 2018 10:11 am

Routerboard has latest version also and I'm using only aes ccm.
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:12 am

Can you please share your wireless settings?
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Tue Nov 20, 2018 7:41 pm

Here is my compact and sensitive-hidden config
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:58 pm

Nothing wrong in my config? Then it must be failure in device...
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:05 pm

I bought a new one and problem exists. So there were no failure in hardware.
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:11 pm

If you use CAPSMAN and do NOT use local-forwarding, ALL traffic will need to be encrypted over a tunnel from the AP to the CAP.
This wil hav huge impact on performance !!!
If you use the hAP AC in stand-alone mode it will perform as designed.
if you use ANY AP with CAPSMAN without local-forwarding you need a CAP device with lots of cpu power ... a CRS125 does NOT have a powerfull cpu .. it is a switch !!!
Use a more powerfull MT and you will see better performance
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz

Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:34 pm

After further investigation, performance is poor when using CAPSMAN - and especially on downstream. Upstream is quite ok.
 
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Re: Hap ac & poor performance in 2.4GHz and 5GHz  [SOLVED]

Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:42 pm

Uh.. Enabling local forwarding in datapath did the trick and now I can achieve reasonable performance! Thanks!

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