Hello,
I bought a RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN about a year ago while I was redesigning the network I have installed at my parents house. Overall I’ve been really pleased with the unit. So much so that I bought a second one for use at my own house. I have been thoroughly impressed with the features that it has for the price point.
I have problems with non-ideal WiFi behavior. I see the same or similar behavior at my house and my parents FYI. It seems to be most noticible on mobile devices (Samsung Galaxy S5 is my personal device) but I also notice it take place on laptops as well. The biggest issue is that the WiFi connection seems to flap. When I try to open some content on my phone, most of the time I will either see it just “spin it’s wheels” for a while and then finally load, or I’ll actually see the WiFi Icon in the status bar disappear then a few seconds (5 or so) later it will reappear and I’ll get the little “Connected to XXXX” notification.
The other issue that I have which may or may not be related is, I can’t seem to ever get more than 20-25mbps throughput. I have all 802.11 N devices and I have the AP set to N-only mode. I don’t know if it’s related or not. This happens on all devices I have tested. I have a 40mbps DSL link and I can connect my laptop wirelessly and measure 18 or 22 mbps then plug in an ethernet cable and immediately measure 32mbps down. I don’t think I’ve ever measured over 30mbps wirelessly but regularly measure over 30mbps with a cable.
Everyone is bound to immediately ask about signal strength. I live in a small town-house and the router is centrally located. Nearly everywhere I go in my house I have 5 bars as measured on the “typical” signal meter. Where I am currently sitting and running tests from I measure -44dbm on my phone. Most all places in my house are between -50 and -40 dbm. My parents house is significantly bigger but the same behavior is seen at their house whether or not they are in the room right next to the router or on the other end of the house. Flapping still occurs.
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here is the output of
/interface wireless export compact
I have removed all private information. Yes I have a guest Virtual AP set up. My parents house does not and remember that it exhibits similar behavior. Also note that the group-key-update was set to 00:05:00 until a few hours ago and I changed it to 1h but that hasn’t seemed to help any.
set [ find default=yes ] supplicant-identity=MikroTik
add authentication-types=wpa2-psk eap-methods="" group-key-update=1h management-protection=allowed \
mode=dynamic-keys name="SSIDXXXX" supplicant-identity="" wpa2-pre-shared-key=\
"KEYXXXX"
add authentication-types=wpa-psk,wpa2-psk eap-methods="" management-protection=allowed mode=\
dynamic-keys name="SSID2XXXX" supplicant-identity="" wpa-pre-shared-key=KEYXXX \
wpa2-pre-shared-key=KEYXXX
/interface wireless
set [ find default-name=wlan1 ] band=2ghz-onlyn country="united states" disabled=no frequency=2462 \
frequency-mode=regulatory-domain hide-ssid=yes ht-rxchains=0 ht-txchains=0 l2mtu=2290 mode=\
ap-bridge security-profile="PRIVATEPROFILE" ssid=SSIDXXX
add disabled=no l2mtu=2290 mac-address=4E:5E:0C:32:5A:2F master-interface=wlan1 name=public/guest \
security-profile="GUESTPROFILE" ssid="GUESTSSID" wds-default-bridge=bridge-local
Any help would be appreciated. I’ve tried to give as much detail as I could but let me know if you need any other info from me to help out.