I have purchased Metal 2 SHPN with mikrotik 5.18 Version , and after alot of settings , antennas changing all the time , poe changing , ehternet wire changing , i am getting the problem of response time of about 2000-3000ms and no data communication at all , poe cable length is 15meters and i have configured it on ( B) data rate of about 11mbps , all the settings are good it is new device my clients are tplink 722n , on the other hand if i install bullet 2hp on the same location it is working great tx ccq is about 50-70%. is that a devcei problem or a software issue.
messages are disconnected due to extensive data loss in logs…
user is only 1 meter from the devices and alot of data loss and mind that my bullet 2 hp form ubnt is working great on the same data and mode.
Metal 2 has a very powerful radio transmitter (1.6 WATT). If you are testing it indoors then I would try lowering the power settings and set the distance to indoors under the advanced tab.
Yes, that is correct. You must lower the power, or move away, until your Registration Table in RouterOS shows signal in the range of -55 to -65. For example -30 is much too strong.
Thanks to ALL for replys , ihave purchasedit for high power plus the problems comes when it is installed on the tower , where i have a another user antenna connected to my TPlink tl wn 651g card . ping is ok there but as i start to download anything ping goes to 3000+ms and download speed goes to 0 to 6 k over a 10mbit profile .
I undestand that you purchased it for this feature, but - too much power (and too high signal) will result in worse performance. Could you please show printout from the registration table when you have the issue?
this problem comes to other devices know ping goes high i am using mikrotik 5.19 for load balancing using pcc + hotspot+pppoe on same pc, users are connected via Local named interface to gigabit switch but there are no problems on wired network , problem just comes on Metal .
I have assigned tow ip’s to same lan card like 10.0.0.1/24 for pppoe and 169.254.241.1/24 for hotspot for Local interface but my issue just remains to the metal and some times it comes to other wifi devices…
YES - there is for sure a problem with the 2.4 metal !!!
I started with a mikrotik 433 and mikrotik 2.4 card (no problems) — later changed to another brand (no problems) — Then two weeks ago changed to the Mikrotik 2.4 ghz metal and that is when the problems began…
I have been everywhere in all the settings and the mikrotik 2.4 metal just does not work correctly!
I have 8 connections (802.11b only) (some are neighbors and others are about 7 miles away)
The distance reported by the metal mikrotik shows 48 and 50 km on some client connections. However the client mikrotik (RB411) reports distance of 7km.
There is something wrong with the AP mode of the Mikrotik metal 2.4 device (ver 5.22)
4 different antennas. Was able to get it finally going 3 days ago. ~45dB SNR and proper distance of 1km from tower was reported. Now 3 days passed, distance changes from 30km to 55km randomly. SNR varies from 25 to 35 dB with occasional drop in connectivity. (v5.14)
if the clients are not so far away then you can switch the distance setting from dynamic to indoors.
What is the ambient temperature where that Metal is located?
Have you tried to lower the tx-power a little bit?
I tried indoors instead of dynamic and lower tx power but it didn’t work.
2 clients are about 100m and 2 about 500m.
The temperature is between 10 and 20 degrees celcius.
More than all of that, when I detach the meltal from the antenna away for about 5mm only , it works!!!
I tried longer pigtails but didn’t do anything.
