Super slow WiFi speed on default configuration

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hey all.

Can please someone help me understand what could be the problem in my simple configuration, when my WiFi is incredibly slow?
Came to a point of replacing home router to Mikrotik RB2011uias-2hnd-in (RouterOS v6.46.3 (stable)).
Did a factory configuration reset and have just set SSID and WEB2 password for WiFi.

Provider promises 100 Mbit/s.

My LAN ubuntu server (using speedtest-cli) shows:

Hosted by KeFF Networks (Kista) [4.78 km]: 2.076 ms
Testing download speed.........................................................a.......................
Download: 95.84 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 2.93 Mbit/s

Which is promising :wink:

My WiFi ubuntu laptop (using speedtest-cli) on a distance on 4m from router shows:

Hosted by Tele2 (Kista) [4.71 km]: 9.398 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 36.59 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 3.64 Mbit/s

Which is 3 times slower :astonished: :open_mouth:

While my iPhone 7+ (using speedtest iOS app) on a distance on 4m from router shows:
Download - 18.1 Mbit/s
Upload - 9.41 Mbit/s

And friend’s Galaxy S10+ (using speedtest Android app) same 4m distance gives:
Download- 33.3 Mbit/s
Upload - 7.62 Mbit/s

Can someone please help me to understand the bottleneck and how do I properly make a home network?
My goal is to have a stable WiFi in apartment(3 rooms apartment) with about max 10-15 devices connected simultaneously (a few phones, laptops, and Philips smart bulbs)

Here is my Mikrotik config export:

[admin@MikroTik] > /export 
# feb/22/2020 12:18:18 by RouterOS 6.46.3
# software id = 63WL-9G9C
#
# model = 2011UiAS-2HnD
# serial number = 467304B1DBAF
/interface bridge
add admin-mac=4C:5E:0C:43:D6:3E auto-mac=no comment=defconf name=bridge
/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] band=2ghz-b/g/n channel-width=20/40mhz-XX country=sweden disabled=no distance=indoors frequency=auto installation=indoor mode=ap-bridge ssid="The Apartment" wireless-protocol=802.11
/interface list
add comment=defconf name=WAN
add comment=defconf name=LAN
/interface wireless security-profiles
set [ find default=yes ] authentication-types=wpa2-psk mode=dynamic-keys supplicant-identity=MikroTik wpa-pre-shared-key=Kollektiv! wpa2-pre-shared-key=Kollektiv!
/ip pool
add name=dhcp ranges=192.168.88.10-192.168.88.254
/ip dhcp-server
add address-pool=dhcp disabled=no interface=bridge name=defconf
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether2
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether3
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether4
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether5
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether6
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether7
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether8
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether9
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=ether10
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=sfp1
add bridge=bridge comment=defconf interface=wlan1
/ip neighbor discovery-settings
set discover-interface-list=LAN
/interface list member
add comment=defconf interface=bridge list=LAN
add comment=defconf interface=ether1 list=WAN
/ip address
add address=192.168.88.1/24 comment=defconf interface=ether2 network=192.168.88.0
/ip dhcp-client
add comment=defconf disabled=no interface=ether1
/ip dhcp-server network
add address=192.168.88.0/24 comment=defconf gateway=192.168.88.1
/ip dns
set allow-remote-requests=yes
/ip dns static
add address=192.168.88.1 comment=defconf name=router.lan
/ip firewall filter
add action=accept chain=input comment="defconf: accept established,related,untracked" connection-state=established,related,untracked
add action=drop chain=input comment="defconf: drop invalid" connection-state=invalid
add action=accept chain=input comment="defconf: accept ICMP" protocol=icmp
add action=accept chain=input comment="defconf: accept to local loopback (for CAPsMAN)" dst-address=127.0.0.1
add action=drop chain=input comment="defconf: drop all not coming from LAN" in-interface-list=!LAN
add action=accept chain=forward comment="defconf: accept in ipsec policy" ipsec-policy=in,ipsec
add action=accept chain=forward comment="defconf: accept out ipsec policy" ipsec-policy=out,ipsec
add action=fasttrack-connection chain=forward comment="defconf: fasttrack" connection-state=established,related
add action=accept chain=forward comment="defconf: accept established,related, untracked" connection-state=established,related,untracked
add action=drop chain=forward comment="defconf: drop invalid" connection-state=invalid
add action=drop chain=forward comment="defconf: drop all from WAN not DSTNATed" connection-nat-state=!dstnat connection-state=new in-interface-list=WAN
/ip firewall nat
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment="defconf: masquerade" ipsec-policy=out,none out-interface-list=WAN
/lcd interface pages
set 0 interfaces=wlan1
/system clock
set time-zone-name=Europe/Stockholm
/system routerboard settings
set auto-upgrade=yes cpu-frequency=700MHz silent-boot=yes
/tool mac-server
set allowed-interface-list=LAN
/tool mac-server mac-winbox
set allowed-interface-list=LAN

Thank you in advance for any help

Wi-Fi performance bad on RB4011 - possible misconfig
2

Default wireless configuration is like not really optimized…

To get best performance:

  • use 20MHz bandwidth
  • choose channel manually, either 2412/2437/2462 (perform a scan to get least used channel)
  • set encryption on aes-ccm

Besides…what are you expecting? And what made you choose the RB2011 (with 2G only)?

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Thank you for your answer and help, @erlinder.

I have put all suggested optimizations, but it didn't seem to change much.
My expectation would be to get 90+ mbps/s on WiFi, when operator promises 100 mbps/s on cable. Is that a realistic expectation at all?
By “2G only” you mean the router with 2GHz alone? Honestly, I didn’t have much choice when getting it, but I was aware that I would want to add 5GHz band, so my idea was to get a more less powerful “core”(RB2011) and then add an access point which would support 5GHz down the road

4

Hi. Did you ever figure this out? I’m sitting in the same boat at the moment.

5

I think the conclusion not to expect too much wirelessly of this device as it is 2.4GHz only answers your question…

6

I had the same issue… resulted in me sending the device back for a refund.

7

Hi guys, it seems to be a good performance for a 2.4Ghz WiFi. If need fly faster you should buy a RB with 5Ghz antenna.

By other hand the default WiFi config it’s not working well for me. I’m just getting 10Mbps on 2.4 WiFi. Really bad!!

Limiting AMSDU to 2048 I get a non stable improvement on performance.

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MT’s non wave2 WiFi sucks but it’s also true that you can’t get fast 2.4GHz if you are on a crowded environment. When I was living on the suburbs I used to get 100-110Mbps with an old router on 2.4GHz (20MHz) using a 2x2 client but on the city I can only get 70Mbps at best using OpenWrt or 25Mbps with ROS on hAP ac2, 5GHz is fast on both but ROS WiFi has always been unreliable for me.

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I am have this same issue. My ISP service (Spectrum) is 200/10 and on a wired connection I can get that. Wireless connections 2 or 5 were running around 10. I’m running the default MikroTik script with very few modifications.

I found in my Audience that my 2GHz band was set to 2GHz-B and my 5GHz band was set to 5GHz-A. Once I changed those to 2GHz-G/B/N and 5GHz-A/N/AC my performance increased to to about 50 on the 5Ghz and 30 on the 2GHz. These numbers are still piss poor. I have lots of 2.4GHz items in the house, who doesn’t, network should still run better then that even when crowded. I installed a Plasma-Cloud PA2200 a while back as a quick test and got screaming speeds on both channels. I don’t remember what the speeds were I just figured I needed to spend some time configuring the MikroTik.

I have installed these Audience devices in other locations and had great success.