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by hooyao
Thu Jul 25, 2024 5:27 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: Slow upload speed when fast track is on
Replies: 2
Views: 718

Re: Slow upload speed when fast track is on

I don't know if this makes difference but can you replace your fasttrack rules with this /ip/firewall/filter add chain=forward action=fasttrack-connection connection-state=established,related /ip/firewall/filter add chain=forward action=accept connection-state=established,related Thank you for the ...
by hooyao
Sun Jul 21, 2024 5:39 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: Slow upload speed when fast track is on
Replies: 2
Views: 718

Slow upload speed when fast track is on

I'm evaluating Mikrotik CHR on DELL vep 1445 Mikrotik CHR has some compatibility issues with x553, as the result, I can't passthrough the x553(10g sfp+) to Mikrotik CHR directly, I have to do it in this way CHR(VMXNET3)<--> port group(VLAN ID:4095) <--> vswitch(uplink x553 sfp+) as described https:/...
by hooyao
Tue Jul 16, 2024 6:22 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: CHR and x553 has combability issues with VLAN tagging
Replies: 2
Views: 702

Re: CHR and x553 has combability issues with VLAN tagging

Maybe related, maybe not: https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=208061 TLDR; Don't use VLAN 1 Thanks for your reply. I guess the issue is with the NIC. Now I get this workaround, instead of pass-through the x553 nic, I did the following CHR(VMXNET3)<--> port group(VLAN ID:4095) <--> vswitch(up...
by hooyao
Sun Jul 14, 2024 6:21 pm
Forum: Virtualization
Topic: CHR and x553 has combability issues with VLAN tagging
Replies: 2
Views: 702

CHR and x553 has combability issues with VLAN tagging

I brought a DELL vep 1445 , it has intel i350 and x553 eth controllers, x553 extends 2 sfp+ ports. I intended to install esxi8.0u3 and CHR on it to serve as my home router. I have run the same configuration on a N100 box for over a year. To simply the issue I'm facing, I can reproduce this issue in ...
by hooyao
Wed Jun 12, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: What does PVID do on bridge VLAN
Replies: 1
Views: 667

What does PVID do on bridge VLAN

I'm playing around with VLAN for my home. I plan to have 3 VLANS 1. HOME including the management access to Mikrotik - VLAN 10 on eth3 2. IOT wifi VLAN 20 on eth4 3. Guest wifi VLAN 30 on eth5 Trunk port of VLAN 20/30/40 on eth2 I setup the VLANs based on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z32oOPqCqc ...
by hooyao
Mon Oct 09, 2023 9:56 am
Forum: Announcements
Topic: v7.12rc is released!
Replies: 225
Views: 109737

Re: intel i211 tx-rx queues have regression on x86

I have a x86 box(with 2 intel i211) with Mikrtok v7(L4) installed. The tx and rx irqs are assigned to 1 cpu on 7.12rc, as a result, the CPU usage is not even distributed to all 4 cores. The same x86 On 7.12rc 7.12-irq.png Speedtest.net 7.12-cpu.png On 7.11.2 7.11.2-irq.png Speedtest.net 7.11.2-cpu.p...
by hooyao
Mon Sep 18, 2023 3:41 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: RB5009 2,5Gbe problems [SOLVED]
Replies: 29
Views: 18746

Re: RB5009 2,5Gbe problems [SOLVED]

There's always a problem when passing between zones with different speeds ... in particular when traffic is passing from faster towards slower speed. The device which spans the two zones has to buffer data and different devices do it with various success. MT seems to be among the worst and it seems...
by hooyao
Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:05 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: RB5009 2,5Gbe problems [SOLVED]
Replies: 29
Views: 18746

Re: RB5009 2,5Gbe problems [SOLVED]

I have the similar issues observed on Unifi U6 Pros, which has 1Gb eth. My NAS is wired to CRS326 via 10G DAC, and the Unifi APs are connected to CRS326 via CAT6 cables. It can get 1Gbps from any 1Gb eth device in the LAN, but I can only get 400Mbps download speed from my 10G NAS to any wireless dev...
by hooyao
Sun Jul 16, 2023 12:01 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: MikroTik Devices Controller
Replies: 374
Views: 256911

Re: MikroTik Devices Controller

No idea if you guys know about this https://rosz.cn/ , it is pretty useful for me. And yeah yeah yeah, I understand, those Chinaman are not trustworthy, their government will spy me via the camera embedded in the toilet paper. But you can still take a look at it, and get some ideas, this tool is bei...
by hooyao
Fri Jul 14, 2023 5:56 am
Forum: General
Topic: RB5009UPr+S+IN not able to power Unifi AP U6-LR
Replies: 2
Views: 1539

Re: RB5009UPr+S+IN not able to power Unifi AP U6-LR

I'm considering replacing my US-8-150W with RB5009UPr to save some rack space. Have you figured it out yet? Is RB5009Upr able to power multiple U6 Pro?
by hooyao
Sat Sep 24, 2022 6:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: v7 is significantly slower, at least on x86
Replies: 2
Views: 790

Re: v7 is significantly slower, at least on x86

First, the linux kernel under v7 doesn't support route caching, so v7 will be slower in most scenarios. Second, CHR doesn't actually fasttrack traffic (although it indicates the connections to be fasttracked) even on v6, I'd assume x86 to be the same case. Third, when you say "CPU reaches 80% ...
by hooyao
Sat Sep 24, 2022 5:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: v7 is significantly slower, at least on x86
Replies: 2
Views: 790

v7 is significantly slower, at least on x86

I intended to replace my RB4011 with x86 routers, it's little bit tretched when handling 1000M download. 5009 is way too expensive and out of stock most of the time. I started experimenting with the N3160/dual RTL8111H eth. I installed v7.5 with default router config w/wo fasttrack as the 2nd level ...
by hooyao
Wed Aug 24, 2022 5:27 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS326/S+RJ10 compatibility issue with UBNT AP, download speed caps at 500Mbps
Replies: 0
Views: 616

CRS326/S+RJ10 compatibility issue with UBNT AP, download speed caps at 500Mbps

I can only get 500Mbps download speed from 10G port from a NAS to the clients connected to UBNT AP, however the same client can reach 940Mbps downloading from an NAS via GbE link. The topology is as following Clients(Laptop A201 2x2 1.2G link speed, iPad Pro 2018, iPhone 12) <=Wifi5 or Wifi6=> UBNT ...
by hooyao
Sun Feb 06, 2022 4:08 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ROS 7.1.1 and 5GHz WiFi upload problem
Replies: 43
Views: 11790

Re: ROS 7.1.1 and 5GHz WiFi upload problem

ROS 6.45.9 stay on that one... This small comment is very underrated ! I had a lot of problems on a large multifloor building using a lot of cap ac's and hap ac's (6.48.x) managed by capsman (6.48.x) with 40 Mhz channels like: wireless speed dropping to <10 Mbits on some devices after a lot of traf...
by hooyao
Sat Feb 05, 2022 10:22 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: ROS 7.1.1 and 5GHz WiFi upload problem
Replies: 43
Views: 11790

Re: ROS 7.1.1 and 5GHz WiFi upload problem

I'm suffering from this issue as well on RouterOS v7.1.1. I have RB4011 as capsman and RBwAPG-5HacT2HnD as caps. When uploading occurs, the client freezes. You can reproduce it easily with iperf. I tried clean setup the capsman and caps. It doesn't help. I tried literally every channel/extensional c...
by hooyao
Thu Jun 20, 2019 1:57 pm
Forum: Announcements
Topic: MikroTik News June 2019 (Issue #89)
Replies: 38
Views: 31162

Re: MikroTik News June 2019 (Issue #89)

That's on Nepal side, on the China side, there are 4G full bar signals.
by hooyao
Thu Feb 28, 2019 4:31 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Control kids iPad usage time
Replies: 9
Views: 3091

Re: Control kids iPad usage time

Why not to use built-in ios screen time? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208982?
yes, the screen time technically works, but my wife always extends time for my daughter, and my girl now can figure out the password.
by hooyao
Tue Feb 26, 2019 5:12 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Control kids iPad usage time
Replies: 9
Views: 3091

Re: Control kids iPad usage time

IP>Kid Control Maybe it won't limit to 30 mins per day but it's a start to minimise watch time. This kid control feature does not always work, instead, I can add filter rules and simple queues manually. The problem is the filter rules and queues only limit access based on time, but the time period....
by hooyao
Mon Feb 25, 2019 3:53 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Control kids iPad usage time
Replies: 9
Views: 3091

Control kids iPad usage time

I have a 2.5 years old daughter and she is obsessed in iPad's online cartoon app. I promise her to allow her watching iPad for 30min/day. My wife always extends my daughter's iPad time once my little girl begs. So I need to implement this idea in mikrotik. My idea is to set dhcp lease time to 1 min ...
by hooyao
Thu Dec 20, 2018 4:43 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: cAP ac config problems
Replies: 5
Views: 1331

Re: cAP ac config problems

i think you better let capsman manage all your interfacs, push unified configuration and select channels for the first time then fine tune with some wifi surveys software.

make it work first, then setup vlans.

Your approach as for now, is not easy to debug
by hooyao
Thu Dec 20, 2018 4:30 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: WAP ac 5GHz issues with iPhone XS
Replies: 143
Views: 45383

Re: WAP ac 5GHz issues with iPhone XS

in my case. I have both iPhone x and iphone xs max, and MacBookpro 2013 late, recently i notice they can't connect to one of the wap acs, which happens to be set to 5805mhz eeec automatically by capsman, country is set to my location and same as the iPhone and Mac, 5805mhz eeec just doesn't work. I ...
by hooyao
Mon Dec 17, 2018 5:07 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU
Replies: 9
Views: 3499

Re: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU

I have same issue ! With netbox 5 , 1 client /my laptop/ achieved max only 46 mbit/s when i transfer some file/s/ via ftp from my local nas. The laptop wireless adapter AR5BWB222 300/300 connectivity . https://i.postimg.cc/TYX0XRMY/issue.png my wap ac can actually reach 330Mbps, it annoys me it's c...
by hooyao
Mon Dec 17, 2018 5:05 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU
Replies: 9
Views: 3499

Re: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU

With Local forwarding and Fastpath active on bridge?
Only Hardware queue on WiFi Interfaces?
localforwarding will increase 2M/s, with fast forward on, i give up, it should be the limit of wap ac.

and actually i mean 42MB/s, 330Mbps :)
by hooyao
Mon Dec 17, 2018 4:57 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU
Replies: 9
Views: 3499

Re: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU

~200Mbit/s on CAPSMAN forwarding enabled wAP ac with my old Sony Compact 802.11n smartphone connecting with 300Mbit/s. Did you enable those: /interface wireless set adaptive-noise-immunity=ap-and-client-mode wlan2 /interface wireless set adaptive-noise-immunity=ap-and-client-mode wlan1 Afterwards r...
by hooyao
Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:34 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch
Replies: 12
Views: 4129

Re: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch

Thats weird, because I have tested it on 8 different crs326 all running beta20 and it works perfect, traffic shaping also does work, however the rate settings are still weird. and a crs326 if I want to set a user to 250/250M speed, I have to set ingress rate at 400M and Egress Rate at 250M On a CRS...
by hooyao
Sun Dec 16, 2018 4:34 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch
Replies: 12
Views: 4129

Re: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch

then You should expect slow speed from 10G to 1G port on the same switch, like 300mbps Still with newest beta? I see higher numbers. I tested my crs326 with s+rj10 with every beta, no improvement and that "fix" - *) crs3xx - improved data transmission between 10G and 1G ports; is due to m...
by hooyao
Sun Dec 16, 2018 4:33 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch
Replies: 12
Views: 4129

Re: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch

I get around 960mbit up and Down from the crs326 with 6.44beta20 so no speed issues anymore
crs326 too with s+rj10, without any visual improvement, i tested on every beta, now it's 6.44beta40, do you reset the switch or do something particular?
by hooyao
Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:50 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch
Replies: 12
Views: 4129

Re: CRS317-1G-16S+RM as a "Core" switch

then You should expect slow speed from 10G to 1G port on the same switch, like 300mbps
by hooyao
Wed Dec 12, 2018 4:02 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS328 SFP+ Port Flapping
Replies: 6
Views: 3033

Re: CRS328 SFP+ Port Flapping

I have 2 s+rj10 with CRS326 and CSS326, one of the transceivers flaps 10 times everyday and then hang, I have to disable and enable it in interface list of RouterOS to bring it back, another one is relatively stable, it flaps every several weeks and hangs once a month recently. They are both very se...
by hooyao
Mon Dec 10, 2018 5:02 pm
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU
Replies: 9
Views: 3499

Re: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU

Do you need to run the traffic locally through manager? The traffic is being tunneled back to the manager hence where the CPU usage is coming from, without tunneling you should get full speed. Thank you for the info, but I tried local forwarding, the speed improves 2M/s, wifi and networking still e...
by hooyao
Sun Dec 09, 2018 6:32 am
Forum: Wireless Networking
Topic: wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU
Replies: 9
Views: 3499

wAP ac is slow with manager forwarding and high CPU

Problem description: wAP ac's 5G chip is QCA9880, which is suppose to deliver 70-80M/s data transfer speed with 2 chains(866M) but with capsman's manager forwarding, wAP ac uses up CPU to deliver 42MB/s(330Mbps) to only 1 client. It's weird. The processing should be on capsman, there is no filter ru...
by hooyao
Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:25 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: RB3011 cannot reach 500mb/s troughput
Replies: 17
Views: 6447

Re: RB3011 cannot reach 500mb/s troughput

even my old 2011 can easily reach 500mbps without any filter, nor complex nat rule and if your sfp+ is an 10G port, you may hit the mikrotik 10G->1G port buffer bloat issue you mentioned you have disabled the entire filter stack, just some FYI mikrotik's official brutal force login prevention wiki s...
by hooyao
Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:58 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: 10G link problem on CRS326-24G-2S+
Replies: 1
Views: 1622

Re: 10G link problem on CRS326-24G-2S+

probably not only DAC, these switches' 10G -> 1G traffic is problematic.

very old issue, over 1 and a half years.
by hooyao
Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:51 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: cAP ac - "Made in china"?
Replies: 5
Views: 5176

Re: cAP ac - "Made in china"?

Your iphone is produced in China too, because China has way better factories,processes,skillful workers then any other places. You don't like it? Fine live with it, or use 2g phones that was still made in Europe. And Chinese is less arrogant,they fix issues before you even realize, unlike the noble ...
by hooyao
Thu Aug 30, 2018 5:58 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS317 10G -> 1G traffic slow, everything else fine
Replies: 22
Views: 19420

Re: CRS317 10G -> 1G traffic slow, everything else fine

I just receive reply from Mikrotik
I want to inform you that we are aware of 10G to 1G performance problem on CRS3xx devices and currently are working on new software fixes for better buffer allocation.
by hooyao
Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:53 pm
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS317 10G -> 1G traffic slow, everything else fine
Replies: 22
Views: 19420

Re: CRS317 10G -> 1G traffic slow, everything else fine

Have not such devices yet, however interested by any findings. Have you tried using RED queues https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Queue#RED ? Good resource for common problems listed here: https://fasterdata.es.net/network-tuning/router-switch-buffer-size-issues/ I own a CRS326 and 2 s+rj10 10G ...
by hooyao
Mon Jul 16, 2018 9:42 am
Forum: SwOS
Topic: CSS326 slow SFP+ speed
Replies: 24
Views: 16010

Re: CSS326 slow SFP+ speed

I'm suffering the same problem on CRS326 with RouterOS even with v6.43rc.

mikrotik switches are disasters, It has been almost a year, no fix, no nothing.
by hooyao
Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:54 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: CRS317 10G -> 1G traffic slow, everything else fine
Replies: 22
Views: 19420

Re: CRS317 10G -> 1G traffic slow, everything else fine

SFP+RJ10 still reports up/down link state without a cable connected. Hi I have 2 S+RJ10 on css326, they are connected to a NAS and a workstation. these 2 modules seems extremely unstable. They disconnects all the time, avg once a day. I found it in my workstation log. and sometimes the NIC says it'...
by hooyao
Tue Apr 03, 2018 7:49 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: SFP module is extremely hot
Replies: 51
Views: 49064

Re: SFP module is extremely hot

I own 2 S+RJ10 spf+ modules and CSS326 switch, these spf+ modules are extremely hot. I have to open the css326 case, put a fan directly besides these modules, and install small heat sinkers.
by hooyao
Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:10 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: S+RJ10 and CSS326(2.7) connection frequently drop from 10G to 100M
Replies: 0
Views: 979

S+RJ10 and CSS326(2.7) connection frequently drop from 10G to 100M

I have been with S+RJ10 and CSS326(2.7) for 2 months, my workstation is windows10+intel x550 t1. My workstation is on 7/24, recently I notice the NIC frequently works on 100M instead of 10G. Disable/enable NIC doesn't work, but reboot CSS326 will restore the connection speed to 10G. I used to doubt ...
by hooyao
Fri Feb 09, 2018 6:07 am
Forum: RouterBOARD hardware
Topic: Hands on review on S+RJ10 and CSS326
Replies: 0
Views: 1027

Hands on review on S+RJ10 and CSS326

CSS326 is literally the worst layer 2 switch I have ever seen. But excellent product as layer 1 switch. here is some simple review. setup: G4560+Z270+Intel X550T1+Windows 10 Pro as server 6800K+X99+Intel X550T1+Windows 10 Pro as client cable: CAT6A approximate 15M from server to switch and from swit...
by hooyao
Fri Feb 24, 2017 6:39 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: [SOLVED]2 WAP-ACs can't work together, and not accessible, blame ESXI
Replies: 3
Views: 1298

Re: 2 WAP-ACs can't work together, and not accessible

I finally figured it out, this issue is caused by esxi's vswitch. I will show that's not working and what's finally working NOT WORKING modem -> vmnic0 -> vswitch0-> ether0 -> RouterOS -> bridge -> ether1 -> vswitch1 -> vmnic1 -> wap \-> vmnic2 -> another wap even promiscuous mode is accept, it's no...
by hooyao
Tue Feb 21, 2017 3:29 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: [SOLVED]2 WAP-ACs can't work together, and not accessible, blame ESXI
Replies: 3
Views: 1298

Re: 2 WAP-ACs can't work together, and not accessible

both APs have the same BridgeLocal admin mac?
Sorry I missed that part, admin-mac was different. and I have updated the post.

What's other possibilities that may cause my problem?
by hooyao
Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:40 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: [SOLVED]2 WAP-ACs can't work together, and not accessible, blame ESXI
Replies: 3
Views: 1298

[SOLVED]2 WAP-ACs can't work together, and not accessible, blame ESXI

Hi, I have 2 RBwAPG-5HacT2HnDs to setup a home wifi, and I'm trying to test these APs with RouterOS in Exsi before wiring them to real RB2011. but these 2 APs can't be connected to the RouterOS router at the same time, if only one AP is connected, every thing is good. But once the 2nd AP is connecte...