enable U-APSD (WMM power save)

RouterOS Wireless Networking
1

I’m trying to get some polycom phones to work on Mikrotik AP’s they require wmm-ps. I have enabled WMM following suggestions on these fourms but when looking at the beacons u-apsd still shows as 0 disabled. It seems the atheros chip supports the command to enable U-APSD via “iwpriv ath0 uapsd 1” but I can’t figure out how to enable this option in RouterOS.

Has anyone had any luck turning this on or otherwise making Polycom phones work?

Thanks..

2

RouterOS currently doesn’t support WMM power save feature.

3

Do you have any date or release where the (U-APSD) wmm-Power Save and wmm Admission Control was supported Under MikroTik OS?

4

Do you have any date or release where the (U-APSD) wmm-Power Save and wmm Admission Control was supported Under MikroTik OS?

Any one will answer?

5

Hello,

I havent digged into the topic a lot, but as i understand- smartphones, voip phones @ offices would benefit a lot from this technology. As i can see, Mikrotik IS INTO office wireless APs (cAP-2n, RB941-2nD and other devices with integrated antennas), so maybe they could explain us something regarding this.

Maybe the U-APSD is not worth it? Too complicated? Please tell us something.

Best regards and awaiting your answer!

6

RB941-2nD is also called hAP lite - as Home AP lite so it would be really nice for this kind of product to support wmm power save. Without it battery on my smartphone is drained very fast.

JF.

7

What’s new in 6.30 (2015-Jul-08 09:07):

*) wireless - added WMM power save suport for mobile devices;

8

What’s new in 6.45.3 (2019-Jul-29 12:11):

*) wireless - improved U-APSD (WMM Power Save) support for 802.11e;