I have a HAP AC2. It has 2 physical wireless interfaces.
Let’s now talk about only 2G interface: I wish to connect it to a 3rd party AP (Farol Guesthouse). Both my phone and computer can perfectly join to this 3rd party AP.
However AC2 refuses to join to this particular AP (although it can join to others without issues).
I enabled logging of ‘wireless’ which resulted an interesting log: “xyz requires more rates than we support”. What does this supposed to mean?
I do also have 2 additional questions regarding wifi:
1.) I now have “WiFi” and “Wireless” in the main menu. RouterOS 7.13. Can I somehow disable “WiFi”? It doesn’t contain anything.
2.) In terms of WiFi (2G) reception: AX2 seems better (4dBi) antenna gain (vs 2.5dBi).. does this mean in case I switch AC2 to AX2 I will have better reception in the same environment with AX2 than I would have with AC2?
Update: managed to connect: upgrade to latest 7.15.3 version, then log message changed from mismatching data rates to mismatching group ciphers. And indeed ‘tkip’ was disabled in group ciphers, after I re-enabled that, it joined immediately to my desired AP.
Since v7, there are two dtivers for wifi hardware: legacy wireless and new wifi … New ax hardware is only supported by wifi drivers, pre-ac hardware is only supported by wireless. Ac hardware (including hAP ac2) is supported by either driver, but default being wireless (due to legacy reasons).
With new driver wifi dtiver comes new CAPsMAN and since 7.13, new CAPsMAN became integral part of base routeros package. Since new capsman config tedides in /eifi config subtree (as does wifi driver config if loaded and suported hardware exists), hence existance of that config subtree.
And no, you can’t get rid of it.
In theory yes, but the difference wouldn’t be huge… 1.5dB is barrely noticeable. The bigger difference would come from support for ax rates … if the other device (in your case the 3rd party AP) supports it (in your case it probably doesn’t since you had to enable obsolete WPA/TKIP to have working connection). In practice optimal orientation of your hAP ac2 may make more of difference … since antenna radiation pattern is not spherical, there are directions with highest gain and others eith noticeable lower gain.