Coming from ubiquiti we did one customer with mikrotik capsman. This is the worst project ever. The devices will not pickup a frequency in the 2.4 band that is different to frequency from the neigbour ip.
Can someone tell me how to set a static frequency? If I made three channel profiles with 2412, 2437, 2662 this is working for the moment but after reprovision this setting is lost. Do I have to make a provisioning rule based on radio mac for every accesspoint?
How this channel.reselect-interval is working. Is it working? What is the second parameter?
Indeed, 3 provision rules with mac address filtering.
Unfortunately CAPsMAN is, when it comes to frequency choosing, not real smart. All CAPs will choose after provisioning, at the same time. Hence choosing the same frequencies.
I also come from Ubiquiti (and Grandstream) and will never return. Love MikroTik and had to learn a lot.
Since we moved back to ubiquiti for our building the wifi issues are away. We spent so many time to make the wifi fly and we had a strong hope the the next ROS will fix it. But unfortunally it didin’t!
Mikrotiks hardware is good and cheap but the software for the wifi isn’t
Only 1 hour after starting this topic you came here to tell us, that you “moved back to ubiquiti”. Nothing against the move itself - but you could have skipped the whole topic.
reselect-interval (time interval)
Specifies when the interface should rescan channel availability and select the most appropriate one to use. Specifying intervall will allow the system to select this interval dynamically and randomly. This helps to avoid a situation when many APs at the same time scan network, select the same channel and prefer to use it at the same time.
@infabo: No I cant skip the topic. When you read my post you will see that I have one customer with mikrotik. We can’t change this anymore or we have to spent al lot of money.
About the manuals: Correct me if I am wrong: When reselect the frequency the connections are gone for the scanning duration. Or will this be done with a background scan. I don’t believe. So this complete construct is unusable because it is not time based for example at 3:00 am start reselect. I am sure that something can be done with a script bit is this a usable way?
By the way: We use Mikrotik routers since 24 years, I think, as an ISP. Routing was very well but WiFi (software) is crap and I cant understand why mikrotik is not pushing the system.
We made now many provisioning rules to set the ap’s to fixed frequency. This is possible, because the customer is in a rural area. In an urban environment this will not work.
