So fast forward a couple months after the fair is over I decide to remove two Ubiquiti UAP-AC-M from my house and test a Mikrotik RBwAPG-5HacD2HnD and a RBcAPGi-5acD2nD using Capsman on my local router.
Everything seems fine but my Google Home minis will stop working everyday and need a reboot. Unless I missed the solution after hours of searching and days of testing I found out a friends I phone would not connect and turned out to be the Group Key Timeout was not set. So I set it to an hour now Google Home minis work and his iPhone. Everything seems great then out of the blue a few days later connectivity is horrible!!! I rebooted everything still horrible. Signal Strength is great but pings timeout are off the charts. In Capsman I'm at a loss so decided to disable the L2MTU of 1600 for each interface and it re-provisions, the same L2MTU automagically came back but now everything works great again yet the MTU never changed. This happens every few days and I have to disable L2MTU and connectivity is back again I try a simple re provision but doesn't fix it so maybe a Bug ? Going on a month now with Mikrotik had to put the Ubiquiti back because of random issues everyday or so with one cell phone losing WiFi but others work fine. Device is connected to WiFi but no connectivity yet another device works fine. TV's sometimes say there disconnected from WiFi yet a scan shows every WiFi network but any of mine ! A power cycle of the tv gets connected back.
I have read post after post about Mikrotik WiFi issues and for some reason still cant accept that this is not going to work. I run cheap Ubiquiti UAP-AC-M in super congested and constantly changing RF environments and have zero issue's. I really really have zero Issues!! I plug them in adopt them and call it a day they work!
I'm no expert in any field and actually learned allot I did not know about the nitty gritty of WiFi from all the Mikrotik WiFi research I did. I think Mikrotik needs to include a base WiFi template / config with common compatible settings that work for stand alone AP's and using Capsman. Take the guess work out of setting up a basic AP !
Capsman is amazing with ability to change and customize almost every setting . Could use some UI visual improvements for signal strength and interference coloring to spot issues quickly.
I would like to know am I wasting my time hoping this is just software issues or is there radio hardware just lacking and not there ?
Current ROS 7.1.3
but started testing Capsman back on 6.49
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/caps-man channel
add band=5ghz-onlyac control-channel-width=20mhz extension-channel=Ce name=5Ghz skip-dfs-channels=no tx-power=28
add band=2ghz-onlyn control-channel-width=20mhz extension-channel=disabled name=2Ghz tx-power=8
/caps-man configuration
add country="united states3" datapath.client-to-client-forwarding=yes .local-forwarding=yes .vlan-id=20 .vlan-mode=use-tag mode=ap name=1E36FS-IOT security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .encryption=aes-ccm ssid=1E36FS-IOT
add country="united states3" datapath.local-forwarding=yes .vlan-id=30 .vlan-mode=use-tag name=1E36FS-GUEST security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk .disable-pmkid=no .encryption=aes-ccm ssid=1E36FS-GUEST
/caps-man security
add authentication-types=wpa2-psk disable-pmkid=yes encryption=aes-ccm group-key-update=2h name=1E36FS-MNE
/caps-man configuration
add channel=5Ghz country="united states3" datapath.client-to-client-forwarding=yes .local-forwarding=yes installation=any keepalive-frames=enabled load-balancing-group="" mode=ap multicast-helper=default name=1E36FS-MNE_5ghz security=1E36FS-MNE ssid=\
1E36FS-MNE
add channel=2Ghz country="united states3" datapath.client-to-client-forwarding=yes .local-forwarding=yes installation=any keepalive-frames=enabled mode=ap multicast-helper=default name=1E36FS-MNE_2ghz security=1E36FS-MNE ssid=1E36FS-MNE
/caps-man interface
add channel=2Ghz configuration=1E36FS-MNE_5ghz disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=48:8F:5A:D8:39:9F master-interface=none name=AP1_2.4Ghz-MNE radio-mac=48:8F:5A:D8:39:9F radio-name=488F5AD8399F
add channel=5Ghz configuration=1E36FS-MNE_5ghz disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=48:8F:5A:D8:39:A0 master-interface=none name=AP1_5Ghz-MNE radio-mac=48:8F:5A:D8:39:A0 radio-name=488F5AD839A0
add channel=2Ghz configuration=1E36FS-MNE_5ghz disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=2C:C8:1B:71:AD:FC master-interface=none name=AP2_2.4Ghz-MNE radio-mac=2C:C8:1B:71:AD:FC radio-name=2CC81B71ADFC
add channel=5Ghz configuration=1E36FS-MNE_5ghz disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=2C:C8:1B:71:AD:FD master-interface=none name=AP2_5Ghz-MNE radio-mac=2C:C8:1B:71:AD:FD radio-name=2CC81B71ADFD
add configuration=1E36FS-GUEST disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=4A:8F:5A:D8:39:A1 master-interface=AP1_2.4Ghz-MNE name=AP1_2.4Ghz-GUEST radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=""
add configuration=1E36FS-IOT disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=4A:8F:5A:D8:39:9F master-interface=AP1_2.4Ghz-MNE name=AP1_2.4Ghz-IOT radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=""
add configuration=1E36FS-GUEST disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=4A:8F:5A:D8:39:A2 master-interface=AP1_5Ghz-MNE name=AP1_5Ghz-GUEST radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=""
add configuration=1E36FS-IOT disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=4A:8F:5A:D8:39:A0 master-interface=AP1_5Ghz-MNE name=AP1_5Ghz-IOT radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=""
add configuration=1E36FS-GUEST disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=2E:C8:1B:71:AD:FE master-interface=AP2_2.4Ghz-MNE name=AP2_2.4Ghz-GUEST radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=""
add configuration=1E36FS-IOT disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=2E:C8:1B:71:AD:FC master-interface=AP2_2.4Ghz-MNE name=AP2_2.4Ghz-IOT radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=2EC81B71ADFC
add configuration=1E36FS-GUEST disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=2E:C8:1B:71:AD:FF master-interface=AP2_5Ghz-MNE name=AP2_5Ghz-GUEST radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=""
add configuration=1E36FS-IOT disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=2E:C8:1B:71:AD:FD master-interface=AP2_5Ghz-MNE name=AP2_5Ghz-IOT radio-mac=00:00:00:00:00:00 radio-name=2EC81B71ADFD
/caps-man access-list
add action=accept allow-signal-out-of-range=15s disabled=no interface=any signal-range=-88..120 ssid-regexp=""
add action=reject allow-signal-out-of-range=15s disabled=no interface=any signal-range=-120..-89 ssid-regexp=""