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hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:07 pm

Hi,
I have been running an hAP ax3 router as my home router for more than a year now.
At some point, after an update, Wi-Fi started misbehaving (frequent disconnects, low throughput), and everything was fixed by downgrading to 7.14.3. As in, I have verified that upgrading to the next RouterOS version introduces the Wi-Fi issues again.
This is widely reported (1) (2) (3), I'm not looking for confirmation of a faulty unit or anything like that.

What I'm wondering is... where are we at? I have been following changelogs and those usual forum posts, and haven't seen anything to the effect of restoring correct Wi-Fi functionality. At the same time, I only have one of these units, and it's a production unit (i.e., it handles the Internet connection that pays my bills by means of enabling my full remote job :D ), so I'm not too keen on testing on myself with the risk of having to downgrade again in the mid of a workday (the issue doesn't always show up immediately!)

So any other people running the hAP ax3? In your experience, do the latest firmware versions solve the issue?
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:41 pm

I am running 4pc AX3 ...
1 as CAPsMAN, 3 as CAP
running latest RC7 and I actually do NOT have any unexpected disconnects in my network.
Around 35 clients but none with problems. Roaming and such all work as expected.
I know some people report issues but I am unable to find a client with a chipset that has issues.
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:48 pm

You can run dual partitions on the ax3 so you can have 2 different ROS versions installed.

I run 1 hap AX3 (capsman) and 1 ax2 (cap) and have had no issues even with the plagued Intel AX2XX and BE200 chip
sets

On 7.17rc6?7? Right now
Don't remember since I'm not home currently :D
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Thu Jan 16, 2025 2:35 pm

Good call on partitions. I'm now testing 7.17rc8. Let's see how it behaves :)
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:30 pm

Somebody should invite MT support rep to their house, make em some tea and show em their product behavior. Until then - it's 7.14.3 or buy another vendor, because for MT "it works on my computer".
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:40 pm

Somebody should invite MT support rep to their house, make em some tea and show em their product behavior. Until then - it's 7.14.3 or buy another vendor, because for MT "it works on my computer".
So you're still seeing the issue, I gather?

I went through half a workday on the latest rc and so far it has behaved well. I'm hopeful. But I'm also keeping the tea kettle on stand-by. :)
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Thu Jan 16, 2025 6:55 pm

Mostly yeah. I bought another router that don't break my wifi and still returning to hap ax3 from time to time for... sport interests?
As you can see topics you mentioned and even this one have a big problem - people. For the case you have there will be tens messages pointing the problem is you (your config, devices, room you living in, your traffic etc) and tens that the problem doesn't exist totally ignoring the fun fact that downgrading the firmware solves it. And it doesn't help at all.
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:55 pm

Aaaaand it's gone. Back to 7.14.3.
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:30 pm

I can confirm that after downgrading the system is once again stable.
 
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Re: hAP ax3 wireless issues - where are we at?

Wed Jan 22, 2025 1:45 pm

You can just follow viewtopic.php?t=198736 , and newest releases, read changelogs. New beta includes some wifi stability improvements/fixes. Does it cure "connection lost" and "sa query timeout" - cant say. Didnt tested.