hAP lite very slow

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1

Hello,

I have a hAP lite (RB941-2nD-TC) (street cred: got it as a present on a Mikrotik convention) that I wanted to use as my home router but I`ve been experiencing unacceptably low speeds. The setup is the following:
ISP modem → hAP lite

  • –>100MBit switch → devices


  • –>Wireless

I never got it above 12 MBit/s on wifi even though the ISP supplied router is doing 60 MBit/s at least. Whether the hAP was the DHCP server or the ISP router made no apparent difference. Is this the expected speed from a low-end board serving ~10 devices or am I missing something?

Also, would you recommend replacing it with this one https://routerboard.com/RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN? Main selling points for me are:

  • wireless ac


  • 10 Ethernet ports (of which 5 are gigabit)


  • price

Thanks for your help,
David

2

Hello,

RB2011…2HnD… has dual-chain 2.4G WiFi (802.11n),
802.11ac is not supported for this model

greets

3

Yep, just realised that myself. How about the hAP ac model?

4

Hello,

@hAP ac:
ac → 802.11ac

5x gigabit ethernet

go for it :wink:

greets

5

My experience of the lite is that its slow and I’ve bricked two of them just updating the firmware and one just with it sat on the shelf.

HAP ac is a great bit of kit.

6

I’ve got two hAP lite towers (RB941-2nD-TC) acting as WiFi bridges connecting to a RB951G-2HnD and haven’t had any issues with them.

Easy to max out the ethernet speeds (tested them as a simple router and got this, too) and as WiFi bridges getting throughput appropriate with the distance and signal quality from the master AP.