Thank you everyone for your responses, I really appreciate your time and help.
I will try to answer your inquiries to the best of my abilities.
Through buying this MT and reading through the
documentation I already learned a lot, but it is all new to me, so please be patient.
Today a couple of speed tests yielded way better results, I am hitting 700-800mbits very close and around 300-400mbits in normal scenarios. So it seems the performance is back to normal (for now?)
Still my devices have a hard time finding the 5GHz network and connecting to it. Could it be related to Apple? I never had any issues, but Apple and MT gets mentioned in this forum quiet a bit.
Unfortunately I don't have devices using the 5GHz spectrum outside of those Apple devices:
- MacBook Pro 2019 Intel running MacOS 14 (AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA)
- iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 16 (BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB)
- iPhone 14 Plus (main phone) running iOS 17 (CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC)
About the placement and neighbours: I live in the middle of a very crowded city, the device is placed in the middle of the apartment on a locker at around 230cm height. There is pretty much no place in the apartment further than say 8m and never more than one wall (where it counts at least).
So the signal should be pretty good, but congested.
I am not aware of any radars and I never had any issues with 5GHz ac WiFi on other devices before.
Those networks are currently found by my Laptop:
$: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport scan
SSID BSSID RSSI CHANNEL HT CC SECURITY (auth/unicast/group)
*** -88 6 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -86 44 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -83 36 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -83 11 Y -- RSN(PSK,SAE/AES/AES)
*** -81 56 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -80 108 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -80 56 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -79 100 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -78 11 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -77 6 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -76 108 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -74 100 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -72 6 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -71 1 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -71 116 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -71 116 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -71 116 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -70 36 Y -- RSN(PSK,SAE/AES/AES)
*** -70 1 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -67 1 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
*** -60 11 Y -- RSN(PSK,SAE/AES/AES)
*** -55 1 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
mywifi24 -50 1,+1 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
mywifi50 -61 144 Y -- RSN(PSK/AES/AES)
To answer your questions:
What do you see in the logs? Do you see good signal under the Registration tab (/interface/wifiwave2/registration-table/print stats)? What about /tool/profile, do you see high CPU usage there?
The registration table looks like this:
[admin@MikroTik] > /interface/wifiwave2/registration-table/print stats
Flags: A - authorized
0 A interface=wifi1 ssid="mywifi50" mac-address=BB:BB:BB:BB:BB:BB uptime=10h46m17s signal=-74 tx-rate=114.7Mbps rx-rate=144.1Mbps packets=2738904,185920
bytes=3911133059,17375055 tx-bits-per-second=202.6kbps rx-bits-per-second=91.9kbps
1 A interface=wifi1 ssid="mywifi50" mac-address=AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA uptime=1h8m46s signal=-70 tx-rate=192.0Mbps rx-rate=144.4Mbps packets=1431,2709 bytes=474543,630346
tx-bits-per-second=0bps rx-bits-per-second=0bps
2 A interface=wifi1 ssid="mywifi50" mac-address=CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC uptime=1h2m15s signal=-68 tx-rate=432.4Mbps rx-rate=360.3Mbps packets=1031599,62581 bytes=1540027967,5402221
tx-bits-per-second=0bps rx-bits-per-second=0bps
The CPU Usage seems OK. One of the phones is downloading a few GB of update. Other than that just some background noise.
[admin@MikroTik] > /tool/profile
Columns: NAME, USAGE
NAME USAGE
ethernet 0.7%
console 0%
networking 1.2%
management 0.3%
bridging 0.1%
unclassified 1.1%
total 3.4%
I enabled the logging of those topics as suggested. Looking at the logs it seems like the topic wireless was being logged already.
...
still, OP needs to enable
/system logging add topics=wireless,debug
and check logs, when this disconnect happens.
The logs show this for today for example:
00:30:57 system,info,account user admin logged out from 192.168.178.26 via ssh
00:31:07 system,info,account user admin logged in from 192.168.178.26 via ssh
00:31:10 system,info,account user admin logged out from 192.168.178.26 via ssh
00:31:25 system,info,account user admin logged out from 192.168.178.26 via winbox
00:31:25 system,info,account user admin logged out from 192.168.178.26 via winbox
09:19:49 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi1 disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -88
09:39:35 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi2 connected, signal strength -56
09:58:01 wireless,info AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA@wifi2 disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -55
09:58:02 wireless,info AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA@wifi1 connected, signal strength -71
10:01:28 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi2 disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -55
10:02:12 system,info,account user admin logged in from 192.168.178.64 via ssh
10:02:30 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi2 connected, signal strength -59
10:02:50 system,info log rule added by ssh:admin@192.168.178.64 (*5 = /system logging add topics=wireless,debug)
10:04:24 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi2 disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -59
10:04:24 wireless,debug CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi2 disassociated, connection lost, signal strength -59
10:04:24 wireless,debug CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi1 associated, signal strength -76
10:04:24 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi1 connected, signal strength -76
10:04:30 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi1 disconnected, connection lost, signal strength -72
10:04:30 wireless,debug CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi1 disassociated, connection lost, signal strength -72
10:04:33 wireless,debug CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi1 associated, signal strength -78
10:04:33 wireless,info CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC@wifi1 connected, signal strength -78
All CC entries etc. are the same device, even though it might have used different MAC addresses, which iOS does by default for each network as a privacy measure.
The 5GHz network couldn't be found at first. Now that I able to connect
Maybe the router found a radar. Delay means DFS radar scan is taking place. Are you sure the PC didn't connect to 2GHz while radar scan took place?
This is very well possible. 2,4GHz band seems to work reliably and is performant (around 100mbits and more are possible). How would I figure out whether DFS radars are scanning near my place?
I have read numerous times online, that people simply disable the check (as well as change the power settings). But as I have no clue why these limits are imposed on the user,
I didn't want to mess with those settings. Also had hopes the default settings will be just fine, as my use case doesn't seem special at all.
If there is anything lacking please advise me on what information you need. Thank you again!
