Hi, I need some help as per subject line. Have an estate where ± 1500 Mikrotik units are deployed at each Apartment / Flat, 99% of these Mikrotiks are Hap Lites with the odd Hap AC2 here and there. The problem is, some of these apartments/flats are very small, i.e. 1 bedroom units with only a sing…

On the 2G radio only channel 1, 6 and 11 have no overlap (depending on country legislation, there could be more channels). Besides 2G has a higher penetration than 5G. To summarize: lower transmission power to absolute minimum reuirements select channels to get least interference on 2G radio only…

Sounds like one is screwed to provide a decent service per room at least wirelessly. Wired is easy. Perhaps a general building wifi with internet access only so that all can use smart phones but not networked at all.

Sounds like one is screwed to provide a decent service per room at least wirelessly. … It is a bit of a “damned if you do and damned if you don’t” situation. The customers want to sit in their bedroom and get the full speed of the internet they pay for on wifi, so if you set settings according…

Set antenna gain to like 16 dB to lower the TX power, if the rooms are so small there’s no point blasting the signal all over the complex. On the devices that support 5 GHz, disable 2.4 GHz radio and use 5 GHz only.

https://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/EU18/presentation_5155_1523286214.pdf Above link should be of immense help in solving the WiFi issues.

https://mum.mikrotik.com/presentations/EU18/presentation_5155_1523286214.pdf Above link should be of immense help in solving the WiFi issues. Thx, some serious RF Knowledge there (Ron Touw)

As erlinden said, cut down the Rx power as much as yuou can. I think you can safely reduce it to 21-22. As for channels, the 1, 6 and 11 is definitely the only way to go. I had channels set to automatic in my installation, and the situation wasn’t good at all. Just create three channel values one b…

There are many phone apps that measure signal strength e.g WiFi Analyser You need to choose the right location for your WiFi router. As close as possible to the users and as close as possible to the centre of the flat. Choose the right free channel depending on the range used. For 2.4, for example…

Hmm, it’s a quite interesting situation. That’s true, you can’t have much 2.4 Ghz Wi-Fi in a small environment. What about if set up common hallway-based powerful enough Wi-Fi APs, and set 802.1x authentication for each user. Then you will be able to limit their Internet based on their tariff plan.

Be aware that 34 SSID (count as “#SSID * #AP”) with default setting and 1Mbps basic rate (802.11b enabled) will consume ALL available airtime in a channel just for the beacons. The channel load will be 100% just idling. Ok with the better 6 Mbps you need 204 SSID to fill that up. But 30% airtime w…

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Thx, some serious RF Knowledge there (Ron Touw)

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