after research a lot I decided to buy three RBcAPGi-5acD2nD and get rid of my tp link deco p7. For some reasons I didn’t want to buy the fritz repeater 3000 nor the unifi Modells because I liked the Mikrotiks.
After playing around on the weekend with different types of setups I am somehow sad.
Out of the box I connect the box with my cable modem. The connection speed with my iPhone X to the internet is only around 50mbit (tp link deco p7 next to the mikrotik has 150mbit).
Do you guys have any idea how to boost my connection?
All depends on the concept choosen and how you did setup the network, and what configs you used.
As others said. There is a need for more information to be able to help.
@ksuuk, it is obvious that you are disappointed in MikroTik. And I agree on some points. But, my experience and expectations differs from yours a lot: getting a decent 450Mbps through iperf on my Dell laptop (from a cAP AC). Besides, it outperforms UBNT on stability…a lot (have been using UAP-AC-Lite, UAP-AC-LR, UAP-AC-Pro, UAP-AC-IW, UAP-AC-IW-Pro and UAP-AC-M in all kind of combinations). Perhaps my demands differs from yours.
It surprises me to see that you are expecting default settings to perform on prosumer devices. Especially on WiFi, which is subject to all kinds of interference. Hope you find a different model or brand that suits yours!
I'm wondering are these success stories false or why in this forum and also other forums contain more problems than praises? Also almost all problematic threads have are not solved, which indicates that the problems are permanent. And support is quiet. Why a manufacturer allows such situation?
Mikrotik device is like lottery, some get a working device (or they are embarrassed to admit that they were made a mistake), others loose big time.
I have spend a lot of time on the UBNT forum, mostly helping others. I think that forums in common are the best resource for solving problems. Especially because you get support from a community. And not only the community, there are some MikroTik employees giving good information as well. I believe that MikroTik users are more of a lottery than their devices
It's not relevant. Mikrotik cost less for similar hardware.... More people buy cheaper devices for self-made network and then have problem to configure a professional device.
You don't follow the advise of the others users to improve your configuration and we all see you have a lot of time to complain and not to study a solution. I live in backcountry with far neighbors and still have some interference on wifi. Sometimes in summer i see the wifi network ssid of a pub at 400 meters from my house. And there is interference of different types too. You have to find and workaround them.
I have near to maximum standard performance with 6 Mikrotik AP through CAPsMAN with similar and older hardware than yours (1 Hap AC2 and 5 wAP AC) with standard configuration on more than 20 clients (Android, Ios, Windows, OS X). Almost all problems come from the clients (software, driver, ecc ecc) and not from Mikrotik hardware with recent firmware.
Usually i stay with long-term branch firmware for stability and very few bug.
Almost any Chinese device cost less then Mikrotik and performs better.
False, I have tested every suggestion and posted also my latest config. And it’s not about me, like I said, there are a lot other users, with similar issues. Based Your statement, we all, who have problems, are stupid users?
I don’t get, You are using standard configuration (which, based this forum, is a wrong/bad way) and then You are claiming, that I must improve my config?
You do understand that happy users do not generally spend their time writing to forums how satisfied they are, don’t you? They just use their devices. Unhappy ones come here asking for an advise. Success stories mostly come from a few active enthusiast who are here to also help others. Of course problems will always greatly outweigh the success stories on any kind of real/live forum.
We never know all the details. Not all users will respond back once their problem is solved. Some are simply not willing to solve the problem and are just complaining. Also there may be problems with specific (faulty) units and those just needs to be RMAed, if possible, and so just cannot be solved by configuration changes. Some problems cannot really be fixed because they are caused be external factors (like interference). The list can be continued…
Have I said you this is a community forum? Have you written to support@ yet? Ah, yes, you said you don’t see the point in writing to support@. Just because…
Please, please, please, stop defending Mikrotik! If it works for you, so what’s the point of mocking them, who have problems?
Instead, use Your influence and tell Mikrotik, that they must fix their attitude and products. I also sugest them to add warning sticker to every Mikrotik product, like cigarettes have “caution: using Mikrotik products may be hazardous to Your mental health”.
My suggestion is that you post your config and then @bpwl will provide you with his excellent tuning guidance that will help to make you less sad.
I respect MikroTik Routers … excellent product … MikroTik wireless is not to my liking because most of the wireless device require far to much work to get the performance one hopes to have plus somewhat its behind the times. There are some exception for me like the wireless wire that does an excellent job.
For wireless I much prefer the Ubiquiti product line especially the nanoHD, the UAP-AC Pro, the UAP AC Lite – all depending on what needs to be achieved. Ubiquiti wireless can also be fine tuned to a great extent – however – Ubiquiti now have an AI engine that does that tuning work for you to get the best performance especially when more than one AP is involved in the venue. With Ubiquiti one must use a Controller and I suggest the UC-CK model that does an excellent job.
Very sorry that you are sad but EXPERIENCE is the very best teacher … Good Luck
Oh, please, be a man! You bought ONLY ONE product, you have a problem with unknown root cause yet with it, you’ve got many suggestion of how to exclude some of them and now you are running some childish revenge shtstorm in every possible topic here? Come on. As I showed to you already in your own topic with pictures and configuration: same hardware, same software, same conditions, old and new client devices, everything runs smoothly: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/cap-ac-wifi-speed-is-terrible-bad/138783/81
WiFi is a connection over radio and depends very much on physics and devices communicating with each other. If you have a better chemistry with Huawei, then it’s OK, but why to do it? MT won’t come to your house, run a spectral scan and point out some broken appliance that created radio noise that ruined your 2.4GHz WiFi speed.
Before making ANY MORE POSTS and look even more childish, please take your cAP AC to any other physical location and run the tests again to exclude anomalies in your house. After that reset with no configuration, connect using winbox64.exe and MAC-address, apply the configuration I posted to you. And run the tests again in another location. And post a) full configuration (/export hide-sensitive file=flash/yourconf) and pictures of Registration tab of your devices.
There are so many ways to fsck up your Wifi configurations (double NATing, double DHCP, radio anomalies etc), so please hold your horses.
