It would be great if there was a CAP with 4x4 AC-V2. But maybe some day…
How is the wireless performance on the 4011 as JUST a wireless access point?
The CEO is pushing hard to bring in Meraki. I would love to have a $250 Mikrotik kick the Crap out of the $1600 Wireless Access Point.
The routing beat down they will not soon forget. Mikrotik routing proved vastly supperior in the head to head. So Meraki is off the table for routing. I know the cAP AC is going to get beat. But I have hope that the 4011 might pull off the same upset.
For the group here, it is absolutely worth it for you to try. I don’t see how the MikroTik WiFi will be faster, however. If the speed is on par with QoS in the network, it should be acceptable though. The real question will be laptop to server performance and if that is good enough for their use cases.
Kind of seems “par” for Mikrotik with wireless devices. They release them and it takes several months and routerOS/firmwares before they start showing acceptable results.
My Indoor units have improved to about 45% of what they CLAIM as throughput. When i first got the cAP AC and hAP AC2 on the bench I was getting around 10% of the proposed 866M of transfer rates. A bunch of RouterOS Updates and several months later, I am in the low 300s.
The wAP AC despite being 3x3, was ACV1 and the processor seems to be the choke point. They started out equally lousy… but even after all the updates and patches… seem stuck at sub 200M.
Is this something you can prove in a video or something? A post like that would blow up around here I should think. Might get some grease to the squeaky wheels.
How many AP’s do you plan to install? aside from a singular AP performance, it’s probably more relevant to assess the controller function and features along with the radio performance.
The controller function and features along with the client compatibility unfortunately go hard against mtk enterprise WiFi
How many do I intend to install?
I have installed over a thousand Ruckus Access Points over the last 10 years. The radio performance has beaten out other manufactures in many different environments. They are the wireless provider I can count on more often than not.
However… In that time… I have ONLY USED MIKROTIK ROUTERS. They have been the routers I can get to solve whatever issue I was brought in for.
As to the controller functionality… Caps man looks good on paper. I have used it a few times and had decent results. The weakness has been the performance of the radios it controls.
And when I found what looks like a bug where one radio on a caps-man will completely stop accepting clients… I sent logs and descriptions. However Arturs replies once every 30 days. This makes it impossible to trouble shoot anything. And when I try to request that Normis get involved… I get a condescending reply from another forum member who doesn’t even under stand /IP services vs /IP firewall. Then Normis spits back that I need a paid consultant… But moving on.
I have dozens of posts about how the wAP AC can’t get anywhere near the speeds it should with a 3x3 radio. Even replies on this forum that the processor is probably the problem.
The cAP AC and hAP AC2 sucked right out of the gate which has proven to be “standard fare” for Mikrotik wireless access points. Also “par” for Mikrotik products, has been for the performance to “improve dramatically” after a few iterations of firmware and several months. Taking the garbage performance of 3-5Megs of throughput increased to 300 Meg’s over time. While this is still 1/2 of what a 2x2 radio should get… It is a step up.
So when I ask… “How is the 4011 performance as a Wireless Access Point right now…”
That’s what I mean.
Would you please make or acquire the data from the following screenshot?
This shows the Intel AC-7260 on a ThinkPad X220. The AP was the hAP AC, v6.42.10. Windows 10 1703 system.
MacBook has 3 Chain, and RB4011 (Registred tab shows: 540Mbps-40MHz/3S) does not benefit
An old RB911 Outperform newer Wave2 Hardware… or more possible bad driver
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