Hi There,
I have a Mikrotik CRS125-24G-1S-IN with 2 wAP AC units connected in a home office environment. I’ve had these in caps managed by the CRS but have recently been noticing speed issues.
On inspection I had some problems when the AP’s were in CAPSMAN which were causing mass slowdowns - 5Mb throughput for Android devices, I resolved this by changing to local forwarding mode recently. I still noticed clients were hitting a wall in actual speeds though.
So I manually set my band settings and came up with a problem that I cant seem to solve.
Even though I have the channel speeds set in caps-man
0 name=“channel1” band=5ghz-a/n/ac extension-channel=eeeC
1 name=“channel2” band=2ghz-b/g/n
Looking at the actual CAP they only pickup 5Ghz A and 2.4Ghz B/G speeds
Hard setting to N only or AC only results in it either reverting to the slower speeds or no supported band. Does anyone know why this would be?
Are you sure that “n” standatd supports 80MHz channel eeeC? IMHO you should stay with 40MHz.
Thanks, got it fixed seemed to work with eeeC anyway but I will change it now and check.
Just for reference in this case devices had always been showing connection rates of ~500-866Mhz but real world throughput was always 40-60Mb, never exceeding 60Mb. This was using local forwarding mode, I had a compatibility issue (probably config based) with capsman forwarding that slowed downloads considerably, uploads were still fast.
So I defaulted the two AP’s using the push button. (These AP’s had only ever been configured by CAPSMAN). I manually set the AP’s to AP Bridge mode so they could work on N/ AC.
By the end of the night I was not having the greatest results with my dual band config. I moved them back to CAPSMAN and the N/ AC settings stuck, not only that, they genuinely worked this time.
First test on the laptop went well over 150Mb where I couldn’t break 60Mb before.
To me it seems like a wAP AC Capsman registration problem but there are too many variables to say for sure. I’m very happy with speeds now though…
Addition: Also figured out the original speed issue, posting as edit for reference for others, someone else explained the answer in a post here, with CAP in local forwarding mode the bridge is set in the CAP settings locally to the AP. When forwarding is managed by CAPSMAN the bridge is set in datapath of the CAPS Manager and Bridge MUST be set to none at the AP, seems simple and makes sense in retrospect but it will still operate very inefficiently if set incorrectly. Some combination of the above problems had me running at 5Mb downloads. Hopefully this will help other Mikrotik newbies in the right direction troubleshooting WIFI issues.