Hi all,
I’m a new Mikrotik user and new to the forum. I’m definitely no IT guy. I probably barely qualify as a layman, so you’ll have to bear with me here.
I’m having speed issues on my LAN between my two wired clients. I’m getting ≈500mbps down and just over 400mb up. I’m using Cat5e cabling and both machines have gigabit-capable cards.
After unboxing, I hooked everything up as instructed and ran QuickSet inside the browser interface. That gave me ether1-gateway, ether2-master-local and ether3-slave-local.
Insofar as I can find applicable information regarding my speed issues, others that have had the problem fixed it by moving their gateway from ether1 to something on the second switch (i.e., ether6-10), then setting ether1 as the master and slaving ether2-5 to it.
I’ve tried creating a gateway on ether6 by referring to the wiki and to the manual, or by copying the settings already applied to ether1, but I can’t get it to work.
If someone could be so kind as to walk me through this, or even just outline the steps for me, I’d greatly appreciate it.
Which device model do you have? 400-500Mbit is a good speed. Since a router is processing things, this is what you should expect from a mid-range device.
If you want to improve speed for the home, you can add a few rules to make your LAN traffic go though without processing, then you will not be able to limit speed and such things. This will give you improved throughput. You can do it with Fasttrack:
Pasting this into the command line should be enough:
Change firewall rules: No problem, I have no rules that refer to eth1.
Change WAN to eth6 or change DHCP client to eth6 instead of eth1: This just loses my internet access. When I move the cable from 1 to 6, it goes from SEARCHING to BOUND, but I still can’t ping outside my LAN.
Make eth2-5 slaves of eth1: This just boots me out of winbox. Even just changing the name of the port kicks me out, and once I can reconnect, the setting that got me booted is back to what it was before I tried changing it.
What am I doing wrong? Should I move my cables to Switch 2 while I make the changes to SW1?
Make export in cli to see how and where the ether1 was set. Then apply this setting to new wan port instead. It is not possible to have working wan with nat without any firewall rules. At least natting rule should be present.
I would have thought that’s all it takes. And that’s all I’m trying to do. But doing that either boots me out of Winbox (by disconnecting me from the router) or it throws me an error.
Yes. My desktop (that I’m working from) is on eth2.
Last night, I tried making the switch from eth1 to eth6, and then I unplugged he cable from my desktop and plugged it into eth7 so I could continue to work. That part seemed to go OK, but once I started changing the properties of eth2, I got booted anyways, and when I got back into Winbox, all the settings had reverted to what they were before I was booted.
As an interim measure unslave port 10 and assign it an address, eg 192.168.90.1/24 .
Connect your laptop to this port with 192.168.90.2 and attempt your config changes. This connection should stay solid while you make the changes.
This could be good idea. But staying at bridged port should do the same. Hope the bridge has fixed administrative mac address. Otherwise it could change on fly that can lead to problems you have described.
Alright. I got it to a working state. It’s not done, but it works.
As is, I have my gateway on eth6, and my two wired connections on eth1 & eth2. But none of my addresses match what I have set in the DHCP server. It’s handing out 192.168.0.X addresses, when I have it set to assign 192.168.88.XXX.
Could one of you have a look at this export and tell me where I screwed up?
I think this is where your 192.168.0.x addresses are coming from.
You also need to move the IP address from port 1 to the bridge.
And change this from port 7 to the new gateway port 6