Let me start by saying when it comes with networking I’m very novice, don’t know much of the lingo, so please have a little patient with me.
Last week my ISP (cable) called me and upgraded me from 100mbps d/l & 5mbps u/l to 200 d/l & 10 u/l.
I work from home (193sq m - 2000sq ft home)
The current setup is modem->RB2011->>RB2011(downstairs as repeater CPE)
Through WiFi the 100M it worked perfectly but after upgrading to 200M I could only reach up to 80M download and 10 upload.
When connected through ETH I get full bandwidth speeds.
The current solution was to plugin Airport Express router to ETH2 and create a second SSID and I get full bandwidth through there.
Most probably I have answered my own question but not sure, RB2011 being 2.4ghz cant support that speed but think it can or am I wrong?
Thanks in advance and sorry if I didn’t make any sense. I can export my config if needed.
Or my favorite fact… When first released, the difference in price between the WiFi and non wifi unit was 1 dollar.
Replace the whole thing with a hAP AC2.
The wireless radios are AC MU-MIMO. They seem to top out right around 300Megs on the 5Gig radio. And the processor can keep up with wire speed to up into the 900s.
Although the hAP ac2 and cAP ac have a SOC with MU-MIMO support, current RouterOS doesn´t support it. MU-MIMO isnt´t implemented. Also there´s no timeframe published by MikroTik when it will be available.
My suggestion for your situation is the RB3011 Router that will serve you very well … combine that with your existing Apple Express in bridge mode and you will get very good WiFi … I am assuming that you already have the Apple Express however if my assumption is wrong then I would recommend the TP-Link EAP245v3 Access Point for your WiFi … that combination is outstanding …
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