What is your expectation?
stable 500-600Mbps at my desk, around 5m from ap, with a very light wall/door in LOS
I will not expect 2Gbps, available from my cable provider’s AP with 160Mhz channel
stable 500-600Mbps at my desk, around 5m from ap, with a very light wall/door in LOS
you should be fine then with AX3…just tweak settings…
I do not understand why do you need more than 500Mbps…half of the wired cable…
Finally someone with a sensible view on things.
Well, we live in a wireless world, and new laptops, not only Apple, HP as well, are, unfortunately, without a physical Ethernet port. We have WiFi6, and 160Mhz to (in theory) compensate it.
Yes, I don’t need 500Mbps+ every day. Still, it would be nice to have, especially when I had this kind of performance on AC-only Asus or Amplify. I have a better performance on a ‘stupid’ cable modem, with 160Mbps support, delivered ‘free’ with my 1Gbps ‘fibre’ internet.
Ax3 is announced as a super powerful and great home AP. It is great, I can run Pihole in a container, and the CPU is at 1%. But for a HW claimed to be primarily an AP (hAP), WiFi performance is not the best. It makes me sad.
I grew up in a time internet didn’t even exist.
I still remember the sound of a 1200 baud modem.
That’s 1200 bits per second.
People get addicted too fast to speed… And I’m not taking about that other thing.
So do I. I understand your view. Still, why can’t I have the best performace? Especially when it was promised by MikroTik.
My clients expects 3 features …. And that is what I deliver
- Stability
- Performance
- PERFORMANCE
And that is in every aspect …
In my market 90% have the very same expectation
The mainframe/Terminal days of horrible performance but OUTSTANDING stability only linger in the minds of high priests and Dinosaurs…
So .what gear do you sell then?
Usualy the wrong gear, based on past experience http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/crs112-8p-4s-in-believe-it-or-not/147776/1
My primary focus in gear is as follows all depending on circumstances:
Routing + Firewall : MikroTik, UBNT, Custom Build with OPNsense or Arista [untangle]
Wireless AP’s : UBNT, TP-Link, Ruckus [CommScope]
Switches : Tik, UBNT, Cisco
On TPlink gear I can create one SSID that includes both 2.4ghz and 5ghz chains…
Is that possible on AX3???
I would be happy if I could put all chains on one 5ghz SSID if that makes any sense…
Lost in ax3 lala land
Yes, this is possible.
Why wouldn’t it be ?
you could set both interfaces (one for 2,4 and one for 5ghz) to the same ssid name.
Is that the same as band steering, I dont think so!! You guys are clowns if you thought I meant simply assigning the same SSID to both chains… egads… WTFUP
Then your question was not clear and unambiguous enough.
A network diagram, perhaps ? 
If you want to do true band steering, you should set separate SSIDs, in my opinion.
If you set both chains using the same SSID, it’s up to the client device to decide which radio will be used.
But you can “help” the client a bit with ACL rules (especially kick them off when below a certain threshold since client will try to stick to the same radio as long as possible) and/or lower TX power of 2GHz radio.
Or are you still talking about something else ??
Nice manners, please.
There’s no such thing as band steering in WiFiland. But I guess that devices have some preference built in and one can help them to select AP in their favourite band by enabling the whole suite of 802.11 r+k+v … As far, as I know, MT implemented 802.11r (a.k.a. BSS fast transition) but not the other two, for those a working and full-featured capsman2 is probably necessary.
So seat back and relax 
No band steering… , by the way, maybe you dont know but there is something called flush toilets too. '=PP
Band Steering
Automatically moves dual band devices onto the wider 5GHz band for faster connections.
Well, it is possible to make car, driving on a highway lane, to change to another lane by hitting it from a side, but I wouldn’t call that “steering”.
After you configure all the bells of 802.11r (the whistles of k+v are missing), you can configure access-list to kick devices off 2.4GHz radio at rather good signal strength. Devices tend to take it personally and veer off to another AP, hopefully a 5GHz one. Contrary to what many would think of first, you actually want to kick clients with excellent signal strength (because they likely have at least very good 5GHz signal they can work with). Then you want to allow clients with mediocre signal to save them from loosing wireless connection. And then you want to kick clients with bad signal because they won’t be able to get any decent throughputs (and they are far away, probably neighbours ).
A more considerate implementation would remember client’s past behaviour. E.g. if a client with good signal, after being kicked, doesn’t register back or keeps trying to register to 2.4GHz, then it might be a 2.4GHz-only client. Or some vendor might compile a device list grouped according to wireless capabilities - this option got expelled with “privacy enhanced” wireless faking their MAC addresses. But you can partially implement it for your own 2.4GHz-only devices by setting them always allowed in access-list. Probably some vendors came up with something even more sophisticated.