With 80mhz we need a spectrum analyzer. When can we have this feature. Its hard to find the best channel if we cant look. I use spectral scan all the time. Its so important.
+1
I have to put up an extra 802.11n unit purely to do spectral scan’s.
Yeah I thought about that. You almost have to do that in order to put 80mhz on a tower. Its a really wide channels. Hey thanks for the input.
+1 for spectral scan support on 802.11ac. Just bought a bunch of NetMetal 5’s and they can’t do a spectral scan… 
Yep… same… just upgraded my first sector… but can’t find what frequency to set the AP to… very frusterating
Perhaps in later versions?
This is a pity to miss the spectral scan 
Is mikrotik going to come out with new hardware? I cant see implementing my whole network over the AC if I cant see whats the antenna sees. It would make my job way too hard. We are doing state wide implementation. Thats a lot of hardware. At minimum cant you make a very high dbi antenna like Ubiquiti AF5 or even frequency syncing? Its not practical to keep ordering more of the existing product unless we have some type of feature like this.
To Find 80mhz available channel can be difficult. Please help us out. I want Mikrotik products for the backhauls.
It looks like we can implement Spectral Scan on existing devices, but it will take some time. It is on our to-do list
ok thanks
Please prioritize items like this as we (WISP’s) need every tool today to deal with channel congestion and signal interference.
Yeah this is very important. Our company just bough $80 grand in the last 2 months of airfiber 5. I am still waiting on the spectrum analyzer for the 802.11ac. We are expanding a couple states wide.
This spectral scan is not to confused with a spectrum analyzer which give a total view of the RF present on the frequencies it scans.
If you want full RF use the spectral history command. If they implement the spectral scan they will also implement the spectral history. You can also use the dude to give you even greater detail.
Just bought my first ubnt AC. It has a very cool live spectrum analyzer that works without taking service down. Mikrotik I want to use your product. Can you do this?
On this photo i like a lot the fields Airtime and Interference + Noise
Yeah very helpful in live network.
I always welcome any item which helps in wireless but there is missing data,
For example is interference + noise -73dbm is it for the frequency used or as i suspect it for 4.9 to 6GHz,
The 3 peaks on the picture what frequencies are they,
Also without putting the radio into listen mode which disconnects registered clients you cannot get an accurate spectrum scan.
I agree. But its something that does work in the field. I just installed 3 of them instead of more AF5. I am just looking forward to getting anything helpful from mikrotik. Right now we just can deploy with see blind.
I made a similar feature request about a month ago, about the “Constellation Diagram” coming to RouterOS. At this moment, on the radio side alone, my view is that Ubiquiti wins MT hands down. Custom, highly sensitive and channel-selective ICs and advanced metrics, at the time that Mikrotik still struggles with NV2 performance issues and 802.11ac support is poor (still with no spectral scan).
yeah I dont use NV2. Nstreme is so solid. Its better than any other protocol out there. As long as you know how to use it.