wAP packet drop

RouterOS General
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Hello,

I am using MT wAP with R11e-LTE modem. Overall Internet speed is solid (30/30 Mbps) but the mobile signal is relatively poor, so there is some packet loss (about 1%). However, it occurs in a strange way. Everything works flawlessly for a few minutes, and then several packets (up to ten) are dropped in a row. This is of course very noticeable in whatever you do.

A cheap Huawei LTE router in the same spot also drops about 1% of packets, but spread evenly over time. So I don’t ever notice it, even in VoIP connections. All mobile phones I have in the house behave in the same way, one packet dropped every once in a while. Only wAP drops several packets in a row.

Is there anything I can do to mitigate this, other than trying to get a better signal? I’ve updated the modem firmware, and also ROS to latest long-term version and stable version, but no change.

2

better signal, more stable connection.
Thinks about connect external LTE mimo antenna.

3

External antenna does help, but this device still performs worse than competition in same conditions. As much as I love Mikrotik, I wouldn’t recommend buying this particular device, at least not with R11e-LTE modem.

4

In my example SXTR+R11e-LTE6_fw_v25
Stable connection without packet drop.

I hope next generation of lte modules like eg12/16 etc. be stable with working all feature. But we need new sxtr/lhgr with 1Gb ports, better cpu and m.2 socket and… mimo4.4