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RB951G-2HND serious wireless issue (RouterOS 5.26/6.12)

Sun May 11, 2014 10:50 pm

Hi guys, it's my first post here. Hope I'll get some help :)

I have recently bought RB951G-2HND I use it as WiFi for home, but I can't get it working for more than few seconds. I do see that my wifi signal on my devices (iPad, iPhone) is full, but I barely can use them. Webpages are not working, other applications are constantly reporting 'no internet connection' etc.

Ping from my work laptop (Thinkpad T410) is showing significant packet loss. I almost got that fixed by turning down TX rates on my device, but...
I have upgraded to 6.12 and can't get that working anymore. I'm getting message:

Couldn't change Interface <wlan1> - tx-power-mode not supported (6)

Any ideas? I really can't use any wireless device at home anymore.

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Re: RB951G-2HND serious wireless issue (RouterOS 5.26/6.12)

Mon May 12, 2014 10:51 am

Hey,

If you can print a export of the config for the wireless we all can see how it is configured and see what the issue may be

/interface wireless export

we can get a clearer picture,

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Re: RB951G-2HND serious wireless issue (RouterOS 5.26/6.12)

Mon May 12, 2014 10:55 am

I would suggest to reset the wireless interface configuration and set the options you only need.
To lower the tx-power on the RB951G you need to use tx-power-mode=all-rates-fixed.
 
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Re: RB951G-2HND serious wireless issue (RouterOS 5.26/6.12)

Mon May 12, 2014 1:15 pm

Here you have output from the /interface wireless export command:

/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] band=2ghz-b/g/n bridge-mode=disabled channel-width=20/40mhz-ht-above country=\
"czech republic" disabled=no distance=indoors l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge ssid="xxxxxxxx" tx-power-mode=\
all-rates-fixed wireless-protocol=802.11
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] authentication-types=wpa2-psk mode=dynamic-keys wpa-pre-shared-key=yyyyyyyy \
wpa2-pre-shared-key=yyyyyyyy
I would suggest to reset the wireless interface configuration and set the options you only need.
To lower the tx-power on the RB951G you need to use tx-power-mode=all-rates-fixed.
This is what I have set actually :)
 
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Re: RB951G-2HND serious wireless issue (RouterOS 5.26/6.12)

Mon May 12, 2014 3:42 pm

i would suggest changing the channel width to 20MHz only as some devices dont like the 20/40 HT Above



try putting this in and changing the country code and channel you wish to use

/interface wireless security-profiles
add authentication-types=wpa2-psk eap-methods="" group-ciphers=aes-ccm group-key-update=5m interim-update=0s management-protection=allowed \
    management-protection-key="" mode=dynamic-keys name=Security 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="" tls-certificate=none tls-mode=no-certificates unicast-ciphers=aes-ccm wpa-pre-shared-key="" \
    wpa2-pre-shared-key=12345678
/interface wireless
    set 0 adaptive-noise-immunity=ap-and-client-mode 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=20mhz \
    compression=no country="united kingdom" \
    default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-authentication=yes default-client-tx-limit=\
    0 default-forwarding=yes dfs-mode=no-radar-detect disable-running-check=no disabled=\
    no disconnect-timeout=3s distance=indoors frame-lifetime=0 frequency=2437 \
    frequency-mode=regulatory-domain frequency-offset=0 hide-ssid=no \
    ht-ampdu-priorities="" 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 \
    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=WiFi \
    rate-selection=advanced rate-set=default scan-list=default \
    security-profile=Security ssid=WiFi 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=17 tx-power-mode=\
    card-rates 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

i put this in some of my clients and not have any issues with wireless :)

oh and set the No-Radar Detect to None oops typo in my config
 
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Re: RB951G-2HND serious wireless issue (RouterOS 5.26/6.12)

Mon May 12, 2014 10:43 pm

Actually I think I had different issue here. Had - because it seems to be solved now.

I'm using mikrotik purely as wifi + ethernet switch as I do routing/firewalling/etc. on my BSD box. It ended up after some tcpdumping and thinking that my mikrotik device were using same IP address as my gateway (surprise, no idea why) and after my wireles devices autheticated to wifi actual pactekts were routed once through my gateway, another one through mikrotik's fake gateway which resulted in dropped connections.

Nevertheless - thank you for your prompt reply. So far everything is working here.

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