I have a RB4011igs with two RBcAPGi-5acD2nD. I am trying to create a CAPsMAN wireless to have the same network over the apartment. On the first CAP device I am having both 2 ghz and 5 ghz network. However, on the second CAP device I am having only 2ghz network. The 5 ghz channel has the error – no supported channel. What am I missing? There are a lot of other wireless networks around me, could it be from them or I have misconfigured something?
Change installation=indoors to installation=any. This setting affects frequency availability and Mikrotik uses this in a very unusual way. And with more than single cAP device, you realy shouldn’t be setting mac-address or radio-mac or radio-name in common configuration. Either leave it unset and let CAPsMAN provision it automagically or create provisioning rules which will explicitly set different values to each of cAP devices.
Personally until you get can setup and modify configs on routers and capacs without capsman, i wouldnt touch it for the added complexity however some people like self-inflicted frustration.
I don’t think bolded parts in /caps-man interface are necessary. Even more, IMO this part is un-necessarily complicated, normally it should contain only simple add interface= where is interface which connects to cAPs (can be bridge or similar).
In the second part (/caps-man channel) you better change extension channel to some non-automatic value (e.g. Ce(ee), XX(XX) can cause various problems).
Now I can see both neworks everywhere in the apartment. I don’t know if this is the best configuration and I still don’t have access list rules; I have to play with it. I had an issue with the kitchen AP, as it dropped its IP several times (could be a lose cable). I replugged the cable and reserved the IP for the AP from the main router (RB4011iGS+). I will dig more, but does anyone have suggestion about the configuration? Are there some misconfigurations I’ve done? I have 5ghz networks around me and 20+ 2.4ghz networks around me, when I use the AP scanners.
On 5GHz I use 40MHz at least (Ce or Ceee) and am using DFS channels as they are less crowded than the 5180-5240 channels. But it has its disadvantages (as well as advantages).
Depending on whether you need 6Mbps, you can set basic rates to 12Mbps & 24Mbps and supported 12Mbps and up.
Didn’t you set country code?
I am not sure if my devices support 40MHz, I will try later, when my wife stops using the wireless
I will try later. To be honest, I don't know what does that mean. Of course, I would like the wireless to be as fast as possible. For example, 2Ghz with the current setting seems too slow for HBO GO streaming on the TVs and I switched to 5Ghz. I would need some time to get familiar with what the heck wireless is. I was a default-settings user until now and I used mostly my ISP routers for wi-fi, which don't work that great. I had some short courses about ethernet back at the university 10 years ago, then mostly IP/TCP and I clearly lack knowledge about RF and wireless. At least, I can get a 2-3 ms latency when running speedtest with this setting and the same or greater speed then my ISP's wireless router (latency was 7-12 ms), which is kind of an improvement
You don’t have to switch to DFS channels…it depends on the use of the band (use the CAPsMAN > Registration Table > CAPs Scanner to find least used channel).
Indeed missed the country settings.
Everything is good, except occasionally, one of the CAP devices looses the network. It stays inactive for a while and then it recovers. I have a really strong signal from the apartment above me. Could this be the issue? Its SSID is Mariana. My second CAP is with SSID random.
I tried turning out 2.4 ghz on the router with issues and it is OK now. But can I fix it?
I forced the cap with issues on channel 1. It seems OK for now. I also had a nearby channel 48, so I removed it from the list of channels for 5ghz, now I am only on channels 36,40 and 44. It does seem OK for now. For some reason (not sure if it is this), it seems the throughput of the wireless got better. I was getting 60-80 mbps, now I can do above 100 mbps.
Make sure you have updated the RouterBOOT firmware on the cAP ac. They added support for more 5GHz channels for the cAP ac in 6.47.2:
*) wireless - added support for U-NII-2 for cAP ac;
If you have not upgraded the RouterBOOT firmware to at least that version, it may not actually support those channels, so it might try using them but fail. I was getting the same error before from this issue and upgraded to fix it.
I did update it yesterday. I did had the same issues in the morning. However, after removing some of the channels in the configured it looks better for now. I am trying to fix it by guessing
OK. Just to clarify in case you were not aware - the RouterBOOT upgrade is separate from the RouterOS upgrade. Upgrading RouterOS itself will not also upgrade the RouterBOOT firmware unless auto upgrade is enabled for RouterBOOT.
Go into System->RouterBOARD and make sure that current firmware version is the same as the upgrade firmware version. If they are different, hit the upgrade button and reboot. It sounds like you probably already know this and have done it, but I wanted to clarify since many MikroTik users are unaware of that. In the past when I have asked people to make sure they upgrade the firmware, many think RouterOS itself is the firmware, so I didn’t want to make any assumptions about your level of knowledge.
