Hello,
why mikrotik ROS no supported AC wave2 MU-MIMO?
What ist problem? Its driver problem or ROS kernel problem?
From my understanding its not supported on OS
But it would be nice to know if it’s a WIP for ROS7 
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mikrotik team please answer!!!
If you think they are listening to peoples pleas in the forum, you really need to get a life.
Bring a multi-million dollar contract to the table, it will happen in weeks.
Normis you here?
Why do you need Normis to tell you what you already know 
i believe in Mikrotik
First you need hadware that supports it. Once that becomes available, you will suddenly find support in RouterOS…
I seem to remember that there was discussion about new hardware on the forum. The release of new hardware usually leaks because FCC has a website where all equipment that they certify can be found, including specifications, photos, etc. There are people who are watching that and post here when they find something.
Agreed, Mikrotik is like any other religion,
a. it needs people to believe,
b. it wants your money (or possessions).
Seriously folks, MT is a business not a church LOL. They will make decisions that are deemed profitable.
Obviously - and I sure hope they stay like this. The moment they start asking me to bow down and pray is the moment I will change brands.
So, the question really is: “When will wave2 MU-MIMO be a profitable decision?”
Normis you here?
Please answer!!
You should well know that Normis does not answer questions like that.
Mikrotik prefers people to buy more APs to handle more clients instead of giving them MU-MIMO, just saying
Comon Normis!!!
Wifi has its limitations mu-mimo might optimize the physics but there are hard limitations at frequencies used and the environments we use them in.
I would prefer clearer documentation, and stable systems and then the ability to tune the WIFI (without guesswork and head scratching AND THEN … add on capabilities.
Poorly documented mu-mimo that is unstable and not tunable has no interest from me.
I give up!
anav, with all my respect, I think you could not be more off.
Modern Access Point Wifi (starting with 11ac Wave 2) and now Wifi 6 (Wifi 11ax) and Wifi 6E (6GHz) is nothing a single user or admin can really optimise anymore. I am not talking about PtoP or special outdoor usages.
For home/office/hospitality the algorithms are fast and deeply embedded and an “admin” will just screw up things.
All the roaming, steering is done on the fly, frequency optimisation, backhauling from Range Extender to CAP etc.. all automatic.
All Wifi clients do what they do and need to do, you can also not influence that anymore.
The Apples/Samsungs/Sony/Dells/HP’s and name them all Wifi devices are tested and optimised to run with the latest and greatest SW seamlessly from
the top Wifi manufacturers. this is “built in”.
You nor anyone else will be able to get more out of those Wifi system, you would only be able to reduce performance actually…
What you will be able to do is administrate the system: How many AP, which bands, connect AP and RE over Wifi or ethernet cable etc… but that’s all.
I think Mikrotik also knows this and is doing something, now time will tell what and when things become available.
I believe I need a different vendor for wireless.
Routers have been good to me.
Switches have burned me.
Wireless has dragged consistently. I invested a lot of time in caps-man only to have to abandon it for radio performance.
Stick with other vendors for switching and wireless and you and your clients will be a lot happier
I blame UniF–k… Had ubnt just stayed in the wireless space instead of putting out crap routers…
These 2 companies could have “stuck with what they do”.
There is a nice feature which is called “airtime fairness” which actually helps a lot and is used by a lot of vendors, not only the big ones
Why do we need Airtime Fairness?
Traditionally, your phones, laptops, pads or any other devices need to compete for the chance to transmit and receive data when they are connected to the same Wi-Fi signal. In this situation, once a slow transmitting device gets the chance, it will take longer time to send or receive the data. In the meanwhile, other faster devices must wait until the slow device finishes the transmitting process. Based on the above situation, you might want to cut down time given to legacy devices to allow faster devices download data for longer times. This will significantly increase overall capacity of the network. To achieve such objective Airtime Fairness is introduced.
How does Airtime Fairness work?
Airtime Fairness feature is based on TDMA technology, short for Time Division Multiple Access. It divides the Wi-Fi signal into many same time slots, and each Wi-Fi device takes turns to send or receive data from the Internet within its own time slot. In this way, the capacity and efficiency of Wi-Fi will be improved.
As shown above, without Airtime Fairness, those slow clients need more time to transfer the same data, which decreases Wi-Fi efficiency.
With two different speeds of clients connected to the same Wi-Fi, the test result below shows us the improvement of Airtime Fairness. When Airtime Fairness is disabled, the download speed of 802.11g client is 28.075Mbps while 802.11n client is 18.521Mbps. But when Airtime Fairness is enabled, the download speed of 802.11g client is 12.214 while 802.11n client is 116.538Mbps, which is highly improved. The overall throughput of Wi-Fi has tripled (from 46Mbps to 128Mbps).
