Hi
We recently got fiber internet (100 Mbps) installed to our holiday home, which has a couple of associated cabins nearby. I installed Mikrotik SXTsq 5 ac to function as a wireless link between the cabins, and it works fine most of the time. However, we observe the following:
- Occasionally (e.g. every 5 minutes) the link to site 3 does not transmit data for a short time. This is problematic as there are people in Teams meetings at that site, which drops out temporarily from their meeting.
- The dropout does not cause the link to disconnect.
- Transmission to site 2 seems to work fine without dropouts.
There is not a free sight for the signal (a dense tree obscures the signal), but the distance is only 135 m, the signal to noise is ca 40 dB and the link speed achieves 200-300 Mbps steady normally, so I don’t think that is the issue. The used frequency of 5640 Ceee is totally empty. Frequency of 5500 MHz gives same result. The site 1 SXTsq ac 5 has a L4 license and runs in AP bridge, while the site 2 and 3 runs as station bridge. All devices run RTOS 6.48.1.
Is there anything I can do to improve the link reliability to site 3? FYI: I’m not especially familiar with networking or Mikrotik devices in particular.
Example of signal dropout (timeout 500 ms):
Network overview:
