Hi, I recently bought a RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN to replace my old router. My problem is that I have poor reception in almost every location in my apartment. I tested this with 2 laptops and 2 smart phones, all suffering from bad reception.
When I’m sitting next to my router I have a signal strength from ~-50db according to my router and laptop. I’m no expert but I thought this number was already quite high. The problems really occur when I move to another room. Then the signal drops to ~-80db with a lot of packet loss. However the next room in this case is only ~5 meters away from the router, with an open door and very very thin walls (from wood).
So far I tried moving the router to a more central location, play with the angle of the antenna’s and placement of the router etc, but this doesn’t change anything. I’ve chosen a free channel. I live in a quite area of the city. I only receive 10 other wifi signals which are all located on channel 1, 6 or 11. My router is setup to use channel 8. I also tried removing the power of all my other electric devices to minimise interference.
The wireless settings are pretty much the default settings. I have only set a channel and WPA password. Here is the relevant config:
compact:
set 0 band=2ghz-b/g/n channel-width=20/40mhz-ht-above country=netherlands disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=2447 frequency-mode=regulatory-domain ht-rxchains=0,1 ht-txchains=0,1 l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge ssid=*** wireless-protocol=\
802.11
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] authentication-types=wpa2-psk mode=dynamic-keys supplicant-identity=MikroTik wpa2-pre-shared-key=***
full:
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] authentication-types=wpa2-psk eap-methods=passthrough group-ciphers=aes-ccm group-key-update=5m interim-update=0s management-protection=disabled management-protection-key="" mode=dynamic-keys name=default \
radius-eap-accounting=no radius-mac-accounting=no radius-mac-authentication=no radius-mac-caching=disabled radius-mac-format=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX radius-mac-mode=as-username static-algo-0=none static-algo-1=none static-algo-2=none \
static-algo-3=none static-key-0="" static-key-1="" static-key-2="" static-key-3="" static-sta-private-algo=none static-sta-private-key="" static-transmit-key=key-0 supplicant-identity=MikroTik tls-certificate=none tls-mode=\
no-certificates unicast-ciphers=aes-ccm wpa-pre-shared-key="" wpa2-pre-shared-key=***
/interface wireless
set 0 adaptive-noise-immunity=none allow-sharedkey=no antenna-gain=0 area="" arp=enabled band=2ghz-b/g/n basic-rates-a/g=6Mbps basic-rates-b=1Mbps bridge-mode=enabled channel-width=20/40mhz-ht-above compression=no country=netherlands \
default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-authentication=yes default-client-tx-limit=0 default-forwarding=yes dfs-mode=none disable-running-check=no disabled=no disconnect-timeout=3s distance=indoors frame-lifetime=0 frequency=2447 frequency-mode=\
regulatory-domain frequency-offset=0 hide-ssid=no ht-ampdu-priorities=0 ht-amsdu-limit=8192 ht-amsdu-threshold=8192 ht-basic-mcs=mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7 ht-guard-interval=any ht-rxchains=0,1 ht-supported-mcs=\
mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7,mcs-8,mcs-9,mcs-10,mcs-11,mcs-12,mcs-13,mcs-14,mcs-15,mcs-16,mcs-17,mcs-18,mcs-19,mcs-20,mcs-21,mcs-22,mcs-23 ht-txchains=0,1 hw-fragmentation-threshold=disabled hw-protection-mode=none \
hw-protection-threshold=0 hw-retries=7 l2mtu=2290 mac-address=D4:CA:6D:**:**:** max-station-count=2007 mode=ap-bridge mtu=1500 multicast-helper=default name=wlan1 noise-floor-threshold=default nv2-cell-radius=30 nv2-noise-floor-offset=\
default nv2-preshared-key="" nv2-qos=default nv2-queue-count=2 nv2-security=disabled on-fail-retry-time=100ms periodic-calibration=default periodic-calibration-interval=60 preamble-mode=both proprietary-extensions=post-2.9.25 \
radio-name=D4CA6D7BC55F rate-selection=advanced rate-set=default scan-list=default security-profile=default ssid=*** station-bridge-clone-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 supported-rates-a/g=6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps,36Mbps,48Mbps,54Mbps \
supported-rates-b=1Mbps,2Mbps,5.5Mbps,11Mbps tdma-period-size=2 tx-power-mode=default update-stats-interval=disabled wds-cost-range=50-150 wds-default-bridge=none wds-default-cost=100 wds-ignore-ssid=no wds-mode=disabled \
wireless-protocol=802.11 wmm-support=disabled
/interface wireless manual-tx-power-table
set wlan1 manual-tx-powers="1Mbps:17,2Mbps:17,5.5Mbps:17,11Mbps:17,6Mbps:17,9Mbps:17,12Mbps:17,18Mbps:17,24Mbps:17,36Mbps:17,48Mbps:17,54Mbps:17,HT20-0:17,HT20-1:17,HT20-2:17,HT20-3:17,HT20-4:17,HT20-5:17,HT20-6:17,HT20-7:17,HT40-0:17,HT40-\
1:17,HT40-2:17,HT40-3:17,HT40-4:17,HT40-5:17,HT40-6:17,HT40-7:17"
/interface wireless nstreme
set wlan1 disable-csma=no enable-nstreme=no enable-polling=yes framer-limit=3200 framer-policy=none
. Any suggestions for an appropriate value? Or just play with values between 10-25?
