Mikrotik RB4011iGS+5HacQ2HnD and WiFi 802.11 AC 160mhz

Hi team!

One question: I have brand new Mikrotik RB4011iGS+5HacQ2HnD (international version) and I try setup WiFi 5Ghz with 160mhz. Have next situation: when I turn on 20/40/80/160 Mhz Ceeeeeee and apply settings I can’t see my WiFi network.

I check with iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus, Macbook Pro 2011, 2014 and 2015 years… the result is the same. I can’t see the 5Ghz network. But if I turn on 20/40/80 Ceeee all ok, but connection speed 878 Mbps, same speed I got on my old Mikrotik hAP ac.

What I make wrong?

P.S. I work with video and made this update only to increase the speed in local network. Help pls.

Dear All!

Same problem here.
I have this router and my laptop has Intel® Wireless-AC 9560 WiFi card.

How do I get the most out of it? The current maximum speed is ~100 Mbit/s.

Merry Christmas :slight_smile:
Laszlo

20/40/80 works for me, 20/40/80/160 doesn’t.

Maybe someone from Mikrotik team can explain this situation? Hello!!! :slight_smile:

maybe our phone does not support 160mhz…

Maybe backward compatibility? :wink:

As already mentioned: You can only benefit from features which are supported by AP and client. If your client only supports 80 MHz with dual chain you will not benefit from all four chains which are available on the 4011.

You can try to enable 80+80mhz option so your old clients would be able to connect as well. You can do that by selecting 20/40/80mhz option with specifying the secondary channel. You can leave the secondary channel auto so it finds the best channel.
But again, it all depends if your clients support that 80+80mhz option.

Thank you so much for this answer. I think Apple gadget (all) not support 160 or 80+80.

tested with intel 9560 adapter

  • 20/40/80 with “auto” secondary channel will give only first channel, 80mhz width
  • 20/40/80/160 will also displaying only specified channel [not working with auto!], at 80mhz width - best results with channel 36(5180)
    tried various countries [also debug], superchannel, etc.
    choosing channels 50(5250) and 114(5570) - specified for 160 mhz - will render 5ghz wireless unavailable

Thank you for your answer!
The Intel’s 9560 adapter support it. But it doesn’t work to me (or us). I buy this router, just because the specification say it support 5GHz 4x4 MIMO. Could you paste here a working configuration example?

5GHz 4x4 MIMO is not the same as 80+80 or 160MHz, they are unrelated things.
Make sure your device supports 160MHz channels (or 80+80)

another question: is pppoe client single threaded only?
a gigabit pppoe connection will use >95% from a single core; let’s say i want to use sfp+ port to get a 2gbps pppoe connection from my provider, will i be limited?

You don’t need it

Guys i also get this device and updated my laptop wireless card to AC 9260 which is supporting 160MHZ. But when i am changing channel on my mikrotik to 160MHZ ( 5GHz network ) the SSID not visible to client. Any ideas how i can get the more speed and use 160mhz channel? Also wifi analyzer showing another 160MHZ which is means my adapter working on this channels.

reading back this forum [few pages], you’ll find that:

  1. there is a delay of about 10 minutes, used for scanning of radar-free dfs channels; after that, 5ghz ap will be available, but
  2. nobody succeeded to set 4011 in such way to be usable with 160 mhz channels and
  3. mk said nothing useful about this problem, as of today.

there are reports that netgear r7800, using the same 5ghz wl chipset, was able to pair with intel 9260 with 160 mhz channels.

I tried everything, besides buying another router and another brand.

Mikrotik RB4011 - buying it is a huge mistake :frowning:

not quite necessarily, probably it’s a software problem that could be fixed sometimes.
as a matter of hardware, 4011 seems to be superior of other most expensive models. and it has 10gbe, ipsec hwaccel… as gateway is great.
beyond that, has a great value as networking learning platform.

Agreed. I hope that all this will be corrected in the future.

Thanks, for answer.10 minute delay is working. But still on same speed (866mbit). Hope mikrotik will solve this problem soon.