Hi everyone.
I’ve recently changed my tp-link archer ax50 for hap ax3. Now I have some problems with 5GHz wireless. The firmware version is 7.15 Here’s my config
1 M BR default-name="wifi1" name="wifi-5ghz" l2mtu=1560 mac-address=D4:01:C3:9D:86:32 arp-timeout=auto radio-mac=D4:01:C3:9D:86:32 configuration=home-private-cfg
configuration.mode=ap .ssid="MikroTik-Home" .country=United States .antenna-gain=0
security=home-private
security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .passphrase="_removed_" .ft=yes .ft-over-ds=yes
channel=5ghz
channel.frequency=5180-5320,5660-5845 .band=5ghz-ax .width=20/40/80mhz
The problems are:
- MSI laptop ax-capable states that it connects using 802.11ac (was ax with archer).
- Random disconnects mostly under load. Windows shows full or 2/3 points signal and around 500Mbps transmit bandwidth.
Here’s log with debug enabled:
06-06 01:39:49 wireless,info 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -81
06-06 01:39:49 wireless,debug 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz disassociated, connection lost, signal strength -81
06-06 01:39:55 wireless,debug 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz associated, signal strength 20
06-06 01:39:55 wireless,info 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz connected, signal strength 20
06-06 01:39:58 wireless,info 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -76
06-06 01:39:58 wireless,debug 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz disassociated, connection lost, signal strength -76
06-06 01:40:00 wireless,debug 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz associated, signal strength 20
06-06 01:40:00 wireless,info 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz connected, signal strength 20
06-06 01:40:03 wireless,info 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -75
06-06 01:40:03 wireless,debug 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz disassociated, connection lost, signal strength -75
06-06 01:40:05 wireless,debug 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz associated, signal strength 21
06-06 01:40:05 wireless,info 0C:7A:15:F5:D2:AF@wifi-5ghz connected, signal strength -73
Here I can clearly see that MikroTik “thinks” there’s bad signal, but it was ok with archer and Windows also think so, and the laptop is literally in the next room to the router without significant obstacles (i.e. there’s even no door between rooms).
I’ve started my config without country, antenna gain and “ft” parameters and with wpa3 enabled, going step by step with disabling wpa3, setting country, setting antenna gain, enabling ft - nothing solved the problem. Both Samsung android phones doesn’t seem to have this problem, however I didn’t pushed any significant network load on them, like YT or something.
Do I miss something?