Wireless throughput for small home network

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hello,

I am trying to create a small Wireless network for home use.
The deal is to get the full speed of a Fiber optic connection of 50Mbits/s to be able to watch HD programs anywhere in the house.

To achieve that, 4 LAN cables were added to connect the main router, a RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN with 2 cAP2n for indoor use and 2 OmniTIK U-5HnD for outdoor use.

The Wi-Fi area is covered by :

Downstairs :

  • Main living room : RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN
  • Bedroom 1 : cAP2n
  • Terace : OmniTIK U-5HnD

Upstairs :

  • Bedroom 2 : cAP2n
  • Terace : OmniTIK U-5HnD

This is a quite big villa with wood doors between rooms.

I’ve tried to set up Capsman on the main router and was able to bound and manage both cAP2n and OmniTIK U-5HnD with it but not the Wi-Fi interface from the router itself…

For the bedrooms (cAP2n), the speed is fluctuating between 10 and 50Mbits/s for download and a bit more for upload (60Mbits/90Mbits was achieve using a LAN cable directly connected to the main router)

My questions :

  • How much throughput can we get with the cAP2n? Should I get a bigger one?
  • 40Mhz channel is not possible on the cAP2n, right?
  • Which settings do you recommend for cAP2n?
  • How to bound the Wi-Fi interface to Capsman on the same router? Is it possible?
    (Actually I can see that the interface is managed by Capsman but no configuration is applied to it but I did set one for it)

Thanks in advance!

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cAP2n has the same anemic radio of rb9512n and mAP

its and old radio and only 1x1:1 comparison between cAP2n radio and RB951Ui radio:

spatial stream
cAP2n 1 RB951Ui 2

antennas
cAP2n 1 RB951Ui 2

tx power at mcs 7
cAP2n 10dBm RB951Ui 23dBm

tx power at 6mbit
cAP2n 15dBm RB951Ui 30dBm

rx sensitivity at mcs 7
cAP2n -70dBm RB951Ui -78dBm

rx sensitivity at 6mbit
cAP2n -92dBm RB951Ui -96dBm

thats 13 dBm difference on download and 8 dBm of difference on upload, plus the aditional antenna and spatial stream, easily doubling wireless performance and stability.

And the 600mhz 74kc cpu of rb951Ui easily has 2x performance than the 400mhz 25kc cpu of cAP2n because it has higher IPC.

Expect poor coverage range and speed with cAP2n.

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Hi all,

The setup is almost done now but I am getting troubles with Capsman…

I have set up all the APs through it and it seems that it is working however I can’t get the main router wireless interface to work.
I made progress by being able to connect to the Wi-Fi network but it seems that the traffic is not forwarded properly as DHCP requests won’t find their way…

I am playing with the bridge options in Capsman menu for that wireless interface.
It shows “managed by Capsman” and the Wi-Fi parameters seems pushed properly but then no ping, no DHCP, nothing…

Any help please?