My neighbour and myself had very much different download speeds, me using a Chatau LTE12 and himself using some other brand mobile router. As an experiment I brought my Chateu to him, tested on his ext. antennas mounted on the roof and suddenly the download speeds were much better, same as for me. The antennas are placed correctly by a contractor who does rooftop installations for companies and homes. The RSSI/RSRP/SINR/RSRQ confirm that, values are pretty similar for both of our devices.
Encouraged by these results he bought a Chateau for himself, we’ve put in his SIM, connected to his antennas and the results were pretty much the same as on his old router… The difference is not neglegible - when I get 30Mbps he’s getting 3Mbps. External antennas are enabled in his configuration and I’ve confirmed on my router that they are working ok.
I’m running v7.1beta5 and he could only upgrade to v7.1beta6 so other than having a physically different SIM card there are not much differences between our setups.
Is there anything about v7.1beta6 which could affect the performance so badly? I’m really afraid to upgrade mine to it to have severely limited internet access and on the other hand I haven’t found a way to downgrade his router to v7.1beta5.
Is there anything which could be tested further? I don’t really undestand why the same device with pretty much same config works so badly.
Ok, didn’t know there was any stable v7 release. Will try that but the reason for upgrading was that the stock version worked very slow, even slower than currently. If I’m not mistaken it was beta when it shipped.
Not sure where to find it in WebFig. But assuming I I had it enabled for myself it would be the default, he’d have the same setting
Your device with his SIM at his place reaches 30mbit?
We’re about to check that as the next thing but was thinking that it’s too borderline - is it possible that SIM from the same operator would behave so differently?
I’m attaching pictures of both mine and my neighbour’s bands used. Looks pretty much identical to me.
We’ve both got “Bands” not selected so going on with the defaults.
Myself, I’m very happy with my current setup, works like a charm on 7.1beta5, not sure I want to change it before have confirmed that downgrade to 7.0.3 works and I’m not messing everything up in the process.
It’s strange that initially it showed some beta version being installed, never saw any v7.x.y without the beta status so it was kind of inviting for an upgrade, especially that the getting started manual tells you to upgrade during first installation. From a user perspective I’ve followed it to the letter
Is suggested to upgrade to stable version, not beta, obviously…
7.1beta… is beta
If all work, do not touch nothing but do not expect support.
If you want downgrade to 7.0.3 (better netinstall), you first must save on external disk the “/export file=save”
Reset configuration after 7.0.3 downgrade is better, to start from default and clear from beta stuff,
and using the save.rsc with notepad for import back the pieces of the config needed.
Is suggested to upgrade to stable version, not beta, obviously…
Understood and aggree. The thing is that it’s stated on the product site https://mikrotik.com/product/chateau_lte12 that Chateau LTE 12 is only for v7.x.y and in the updates the only option for stable or long term channel are v6.x.y. Otherwise I’d stick with stable or long term releases but that option was not given to me in the Chateau LTE12 panel at any point and I actually never saw my stock image to identify as not a beta. It was beta all along and I was ok with it, especially not knowing that there is stable one.
As for downgrading I’m ok with loosing all settings, just wouldn’t wat to get stuck in restoring the OS from bootloader level, this is usually more painful
Try netinstall, if you can not see device inside netinstall, nothing can be “broken”!
Just power cycle the device and coming back.
Never press reset in this case, but reboot the device after choice on /system routerboard settings the boot device “try-ethernet-once-then-nand”
If you try netinstall on this way, the device is upgraded only if netinstall works, and you do not risk anything.
Warning: the configuration must be lost on netinstall, do not keep the previous on options.
