As Mikrotik is unable to face to others manufactures with their current wifi performance, I don’t believe that Mikrotik will implement wifi6 at all.
Keep waiting…
Mikrotik wireless has been sub par all the way back in AC v1 the AC V2 devices have been plagued with constant issues relating to connection and throughput.
Caps-man is incredible on paper. But in the wild… It’s cost me a lot of money. Giving up and going back to another vendor was coslty… But we are back to having happy clients.
Mikrotik can route… But she it comes to wifi… It’s an “also ran”.
As in these day’s is difficult to sell router without wifi support, so I guess, that Mikrotik added wifi support as kind of for the name only and it’s there as it is and that’s it. As they have not fixed problems in years and keeping doing things like always, the result is also like always.
I think, that they should look into mirror and face the truth, that their wifi sucks and discontinue the wifi line completely and find some good wifi manufacturer and sell their access points for wifi needed clients.
I get Mikrotik so I can use USA power settings in the UK lol
New Mikrotik products are all IPQ40XX based which has a built-in WiFi chip so they can just attach the antennas and voila a new WiFi/LTE router ready to be sold.
Unless Normis & Co, hire bpwl to start writing legible documentation and more importantly help the coders apply a logical approach to ‘Tuning’ existing wifi and future wifi, and assist in the move to other newer wifi generations, the MT wifi product line will continue to frustrate most users. We dont need to eke the last 10mbps out of wifi, we need to get to 90% easily and have it be stable.
I am more and more convinced that MT only puts extra effort into the enterprise wisp performance/equipment, to the detriment of all ‘home’ wifi.
I second this and 10000% SUPPORT this fact for MikroTik to hire bpwl. I will even contribute towards the crowd source. [as I previously pledged]
Well they ARE looking for people, see https://darbs.mikrotik.com/darbs/
However, even though you can check out the roles with google translate and so on, they still require “excellent knowledge of Latvian and English.”
It’s fair i guess since the company is located in Latvia, but unfortunately they miss out on a whole bunch of people that could work for them that only speaks English for example. If the Pandemic has taught us anything , then it is that quite a few jobs can be done remotely! So i don’t see why they couldn’t post jobs only requiring English, and a vpn-connection…
So maybe some of you guys with the proper knowledge could apply, even though you dont speak Latvian and see where it brings you, I mean you already know that Mikrotik is the future ;-)…
MU-MIMO never worked/supported…
And busy environments cause the 2.4 radios to “give up”.
I think beamforming (the explicit/standard 802.11ac one) is more important than MU-MIMO because it focuses the signal to clients and thus they can negotiate better data rates with the AP. Although MU-MIMO can help on a four chain radio (like the RB4011 or the Audience) with several devices using the connection constantly.
I wasn’t sure if beamforming made the list. Apparently it does.
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I am thinking to change my WiFi interference and better coverage. But of course I need WiFi 6 devices as well to take advantage of that.
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WiFi 4 works with interference.
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I am thinking to change my WiFi interference and better coverage. But of course I need WiFi 6 devices as well to take advantage of that.
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WiFi 4 works with interference.
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But Mikrotik’s radios don’t deal with interference as well as other vendors.
This pains me daily on installs…
I would be deploying caps-man constantly, if I could trust the radios. They just don’t keep up and the way they “give up” in noisy environments, doesn’t get the job done.
@gotsprings, you are being very kind … In the modern world – for the G7 nations – and in the wireless realm MikroTik wireless is unable to compete. But perhaps its existing product lineup satisfies its current supply chain so there is no reason to be concerned. If its supply chain complained then that would be a different story.
The value proposition for wired routers branded MikroTik is excellent without question … wireless not in the game.
Have you noticed any difference with RouterOS v7.1.x?
Used a Ruckus R550 for the last 2 weeks…
That’s a painful reminder…
Software is already cooking for WiFi6. You can see that in wifiwave2 package.
I bet hardware is in development too.
The big networking device vendors will release thei WiFi 6E access points in Q3/Q4 2021. So, it would be a chance for MIkroTik to go develop straight 802.11ax access points with 6 GHz support, aswell.
We’re only 7 months away from Q3, and that’s not much time to make new 6E APs if you’re not some megacorp funded by scam cloud services.
Haven´t chipset vendors usually have something like a kind of default design for access points which can be used?