hAP ac^2: Q on passwords and wireless speed

[bpwl]

Webfig is ok for normal configuration (but when you mess it, only Windows tools like Winbox and Netinstall can recover the hap). The important thing is to never use quickset after initial setup. If you change anithing in Quickset after you get in trouble. Use only Webfig and Terminal for tuning and changes.

Some things to try:

• disable 802.11a and 802.11b support. Keep only n and ac.
• disable wpa-psk and tkip support. Keep only wap2-psk with aes (the old standard can hit seriously the performance).
• you can set location of installation to “any” instead of “indoor”.

With my Hap AC2:

• on 2.4G (set to only 20 Mhz channel width for my location interference with multiple AP) i reach 144 Mbits on all my device (for 300 Mbits you must set 40 Mhz Channel and have compatible client).
• on 5 Ghz (set to 40/80 Mhz channel width) i reach the full 433/866 Mbits with 1/2 chain clients (radio connection, the real speed is lower of course).

Very good list, there is even more …

• don’t use “auto” freq selection
• don’t use XX or XXXX as bandwidth (you have no control like with Ce,eC,Ceee,eCee,…)
• do a survey before choosing channels (40 MHz bandwidth on 2.4 GHz is almost never available, there is no room for 2 40 MHz channels)
• co-channel interference is better than adjacent channel interference
• for multiple spatial streams the client must support it as well. Battery powered devices are sometimes limited to single stream. (Max speed from http://mcsindex.com)
  etc etc etc
  http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/how-to-get-rid-of-slow-wifi-can-it-be-done/139640/1