Hi All,
I’m new to the wifi links on mikrotik so i’m hoping for a bit of light on this. I’m attempting to create a transparent WDS bridge and i’m having throughput issues.
I’ve created a WDS link by creating the following:
AP1 - Omnitik
/interface wireless
set 0 adaptive-noise-immunity=none allow-sharedkey=no antenna-gain=0 area="" \
arp=enabled band=5ghz-onlyn basic-rates-a/g=6Mbps bridge-mode=enabled \
channel-width=20mhz compression=no country=no_country_set \
default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-authentication=yes default-client-tx-limit=\
0 default-forwarding=yes dfs-mode=none disable-running-check=no disabled=\
no disconnect-timeout=3s distance=dynamic frame-lifetime=0 frequency=5220 \
frequency-mode=manual-txpower frequency-offset=0 hide-ssid=no \
ht-ampdu-priorities=0 ht-amsdu-limit=8192 ht-amsdu-threshold=8192 \
ht-basic-mcs=mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7 \
ht-guard-interval=any ht-rxchains=0,1 ht-supported-mcs="mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,\
mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7,mcs-8,mcs-9,mcs-10,mcs-11,mcs-12,mcs-13,mcs-\
14,mcs-15,mcs-16,mcs-17,mcs-18,mcs-19,mcs-20,mcs-21,mcs-22,mcs-23" \
ht-txchains=0,1 hw-fragmentation-threshold=disabled hw-protection-mode=\
none hw-protection-threshold=0 hw-retries=7 l2mtu=2290 mac-address=\
00:0C:42:CD:73:3B max-station-count=2007 mode=ap-bridge mtu=1500 name=\
wlan1 noise-floor-threshold=default nv2-cell-radius=30 \
nv2-noise-floor-offset=default nv2-preshared-key="" nv2-qos=default \
nv2-queue-count=2 nv2-security=disabled on-fail-retry-time=100ms \
periodic-calibration=default periodic-calibration-interval=60 \
preamble-mode=both proprietary-extensions=post-2.9.25 radio-name=\
000C42CD733B rate-selection=advanced rate-set=default scan-list=default \
security-profile=default ssid=CTEMDNPTP station-bridge-clone-mac=\
00:00:00:00:00:00 supported-rates-a/g=\
6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps,36Mbps,48Mbps,54Mbps tdma-period-size=2 \
tx-power-mode=default update-stats-interval=disabled wds-cost-range=\
50-150 wds-default-bridge=wds-bridge wds-default-cost=100 \
wds-ignore-ssid=no wds-mode=dynamic wireless-protocol=802.11 wmm-support=\
disabled
ST1 - SXT
/interface wireless
set 0 adaptive-noise-immunity=none allow-sharedkey=no antenna-gain=0 area="" \
arp=enabled band=5ghz-onlyn basic-rates-a/g=6Mbps bridge-mode=enabled \
channel-width=20mhz compression=no country=no_country_set \
default-ap-tx-limit=0 default-authentication=yes default-client-tx-limit=\
0 default-forwarding=yes dfs-mode=none disable-running-check=no disabled=\
no disconnect-timeout=3s distance=dynamic frame-lifetime=0 frequency=5220 \
frequency-mode=manual-txpower frequency-offset=0 hide-ssid=no \
ht-ampdu-priorities=0 ht-amsdu-limit=8192 ht-amsdu-threshold=8192 \
ht-basic-mcs=mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7 \
ht-guard-interval=any ht-rxchains=0,1 ht-supported-mcs="mcs-0,mcs-1,mcs-2,\
mcs-3,mcs-4,mcs-5,mcs-6,mcs-7,mcs-8,mcs-9,mcs-10,mcs-11,mcs-12,mcs-13,mcs-\
14,mcs-15,mcs-16,mcs-17,mcs-18,mcs-19,mcs-20,mcs-21,mcs-22,mcs-23" \
ht-txchains=0,1 hw-fragmentation-threshold=disabled hw-protection-mode=\
none hw-protection-threshold=0 hw-retries=7 l2mtu=2290 mac-address=\
00:0C:42:CC:89:59 max-station-count=2007 mode=wds-slave mtu=1500 name=\
wlan1 noise-floor-threshold=default nv2-cell-radius=30 \
nv2-noise-floor-offset=default nv2-preshared-key="" nv2-qos=default \
nv2-queue-count=2 nv2-security=disabled on-fail-retry-time=100ms \
periodic-calibration=default periodic-calibration-interval=60 \
preamble-mode=both proprietary-extensions=post-2.9.25 radio-name=\
000C42CC8959 rate-selection=advanced rate-set=default scan-list=default \
security-profile=default ssid=CTEMDNPTP station-bridge-clone-mac=\
00:00:00:00:00:00 supported-rates-a/g=\
6Mbps,9Mbps,12Mbps,18Mbps,24Mbps,36Mbps,48Mbps,54Mbps tdma-period-size=2 \
tx-power-mode=default update-stats-interval=disabled wds-cost-range=\
50-150 wds-default-bridge=wds-bridge wds-default-cost=100 \
wds-ignore-ssid=no wds-mode=dynamic wireless-protocol=802.11 wmm-support=\
disabled
Now these connect together and the WDS bridge is created however after connection i get a solid 3.3Mbps receive on both devices for ~5 minutes. A torch shows this:
Eth. Protocol: 9abd
Src:
Dst: 0.0.0.0
tx: 0bps
rx: 3.3Mbps
After this activity stops the link settles down but i cannot put any traffic over it. for example i run a bandwidth test between them and it comes back with either a cannot connect or only sends a few bytes. What am i doing wrong ?
Note: the environment is ~3meters between access points. this is to go out to a site where the distance will increase to ~300m