802.11r for hAP ac2?

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I’ve seen countless of posts and external pages regarding 802.11r support and most of them say that it’s not yet implemented.

Is that true? Why?

I mean, it’s supported by the chip of this router…

Thanks in advance.

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Is that true?

As far as i know it is not implemented yet …

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It’s not implemented because MikroTik did not implement it.

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I guess it’ll never be implemented cause they’re now focused on wifiwave2 drivers for their new devices.

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Wifi wave2 drivers and 802.11r functionality are not exclusive. The thing is that 802.11r works with some kind of AP coordination beyond what CAPsMAN can do currently, so CAPsMAN needs some work to be done. Might be that current CAPsMAN design can not easily accomodate needed coordination. Or the CAPsMAN development team currently works on something more important … Or that current WiFi drivers (MT proprietary!) lack needed hooks and wifi devs work on something more important, such as wave2 drivers.

So let’s stay optimistic and hope for something to happen around ROS 7.1.6 (or something).

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Is there any news on it??
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Change log of just released v7.7 says that it contains initial release of capsman2 … which works with wave2 drivers.

802.11r is not mentioned so I guess it’s safe to assume that capsman2 doesn’t support it (yet).

If referring to title of this thread (which is asking about hAP ac2), there’s still a show stopper: wifiwave2 driver still can’t be installed on hAP ac2 (and it doesn’t seem that this restriction will be lifted any time soon - if ever).

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Support for 802.11r on the RBmAP2n would be great! I have issues with clients connecting to the one AP with the worse signal.

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You can make an ACL to prevent low signal clients from connecting, search on forum there are many guides.

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Aint gonna happen… Not on map.

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IS “r” a standard of wifi6? If so, of course MT will provide it. They are always up to date providing us modern wifi and not just cute buzz words.


Wifi 6 is defined as the sixth version or generation of wireless local area networking technologies, as per the Wi-Fi Alliance, that is compatible with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4. 1ax standards and enables the efficient performance of networked devices in dense conditions
Talks about Mu-MIMO and OFDMA, but nothing about k, v, r standards. :frowning:

k became standard 2008
v became standard 2011
r became standard 2008
ac (wifi5) standard 2013
ax standard 2019

If k,v,r actually helps clients achieve better roaming and its available on all phones, and there is no better alternative, then it boggles logic as to why not implemented ???

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Huawei,cisco,aruba even tp-link have 802.11k/v/r implement in there APs.Come on Mikrotik it is 2023 now.

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hi,

check changelogs… MT already implemented 800.11 r.k.w only v is missing…

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Only within same AP for now, as far as I understood (i.e. moving from 2.4 to 5Ghz on same AP and vice versa).

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802.11k is supported in wifiwave2.
the other one are coming too.

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@normis:
full subnet or only within AP ?

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As the thread title says … for hAP ac2? I’d love to see that …

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Hello Normis,

please do not forget the standard 800.11 v

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We have no plans to add these features to old chipsets. Only ww2 package gets regular updates to newer standards and features

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Again: this thread is about hAP ac2, which features IPQ4018 chipset. Which in principle is supported by wifiwave2. So we’re not asking to support legacy chipsets, we’re asking MT to create slimed-down ww2 package which will fit on hAP ac2.