My experience, with Asus rt-ac86u, tplink- c7(bought from usa), tplinkc5(tm provided) and numerous other modems and wireless router... I can tell you this much, there is no one router that can successfully penetrate 2 brick walls and still maintain good signal for 5ghz, for 2.4ghz, you might get 50mbps if your lucky.

Thats it.

If you are serious about getting >500mbps on every floor and 90% of the area including toilets, where you need to watch Yanxi while pooping.... Please get a mikrotik router, mikrotik poe switch plus multiple mikrotik CAP AC(access point for each room ) plus spend money or DIY cat 6 or greater cable.


I am now working hard saving money so I can get the RB4011(probably release in 1 year, plus CAP AC(or AC2) in couple of years. Damage will be close to rm2500(roughly calculated), I already got 70% of the cabling done partially DIY, partially done by my electrician.


For you, I recommend at least 1 Access point per floor.... concrete floor with the iron rebars are not exactly very penetrable for WIFI signal much less for 5ghz signal which is difinately needed.

Another thing, you need to upgrade your phone, notebook, computer to the latest that enables MIMO, gigabit connection ect. 1st generation client phone wireless AC is very shitty.... will keep disconnecting one. Dont bother connected wirelss AC with those early AC devices. even my Huawei P9, the wireless AC is the shittiest thing ever.

I got a recent xiaomi that did better that it.


That said. I am quite spoiled with the asus rt-ac86u. I like the AI protection, the multiple VPN connection that I am running, dns filtering, multiple guest networks. I may never upgrade to the mikrotik(but it is a dream). I think single device wise, it is good, I can even connect wirelss AC to xiaomi tv box from upstairs where the router is to down stairs where the tv box is. But dont expect all device to connect that well, thats why I want to get multiple Access point, and manage it centrally and disconnected low signal and so the client can reconnect to a stronger signal.





This post has been edited by skywardsword: Aug 23 2018, 07:25 PM

but also takut to straight buy one hAP AC because it costs rm550+.. what if the coverage also not good..then defeat the purpose also.. any shop that can let u try first.. lol

both mikrotik and ubiquiti APs are powerful, have good coverage, but no point if your device is not powerful enough to talk back.

Anyone using hAP AC with time 500mbps or higher? Any review when connected via the wireless?..what is the real speed u get and ur distance to router?

Hi soonwai,

Thanks for helping me so far. I fell down late last month and hurt my back so it's currently tough for me to sit down for long periods. I can lie down and browse LYN on my phone on my Turbo-ed Unifi so that's what I've been doing so far.

I came across one of your older posting (https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4515759&st=0&p=87871705&#entry87871705) and looked at klseet's site referenced (https://klseet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&Itemid=88) and I tried my best to follow it but I keep getting error about port in use when adding things under Bridge > Ports. I believe this has something to do with the recent bridge master changes in newer ROS versions thus guides based on old versions needs to be changed to suit the new way of doing things.

After spending some time to digest the guides and manual, I've come up with this:

I hope you can tell me if this is correct for my ac2 before I start screwing around with my ac lite. Or at least whether I'm along the right direction. Thanks again.

This post has been edited by charymsylyn: Aug 24 2018, 03:00 PM

Anyone got experience to configure two unit of Mikrotik hAP AC to work as a mesh network like asus lyra with dedicated backhaul?

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Omg the specs are so frecking good¡

Brb I need to go .

Edit: all port throughput of almost 10gigabits. Means there is lots of headway for local lan, this is great. Even with vpn can hit 2gigabits, sweet mother for wan connection!

So when is the stock arriving? This will be a hot seller!


Edit 2. .. just checked out the rb1100*x4 and the rb4011 max throughput beat it.

This post has been edited by skywardsword: Aug 30 2018, 10:02 AM

Hi , just bought hAP ac2 , having problem with WiFi speed test poor speed . Mine Unifi turbo 500Mbps.
Actual speed test only like 80 to 100Mbps using Note 8.
Few feet distance.Wifi connection to 5Ghz.Some time even worst 40 to 50Mbps only . Connection was really unstable , not sure why .
TPlink ac1200 I able to get around 260 to 270Mbps.
I need some expert advice .. setting issue ??

done iperf3 , the result :



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If you haven't update the firmware, please do so asap. The initial firmware has severe wifi performance issue.

i did the latest firmware update not much difference . i think maybe the device is having hardware issue !

This post has been edited by 2323: Aug 30 2018, 10:50 PM

If you are on 6.42.7, then could be setting or compatibility issue. If you using 6.40.9, I don't think it had the wifi throughput fix.

https://files.i4wifi.cz/inc/_doc/attach/Sto...HacQ2HnD_IN.pdf

Any tutorial for OpenVPN server on Mikrotik?

You are running iperf using a single stream. That will not maximise your Wifi usage. You need to add the -P xx parameter like so:

@ECHO Processing. Please wait...
@FOR /F "tokens=6" %%a in ('iperf3 -c 192.168.xx.xx -P 16 ^| findstr /I /L "[SUM]" ^| sort /+40') DO @SET @v=%%a
@ECHO Max link speed: %@v% Mbps
@pause

Paste the above script in a .bat or .cmd file and run it. It will return the max speed reported by iperf

When this will available in Malaysia. Too late for me, already bought other Mikrotik router.

USD 249 (Wifi)
https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_5hacq2hnd_in

USD 199
https://mikrotik.com/product/rb4011igs_rm

Try enable

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path

https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Fasttrack

Anyone else got turbofied ?

Me also have problem wifi speed on hap ac2, TM tplink router (c5) is much consistent on wifi, on wired no problem. My test on
1) samsung s9 - on c5 can reach 200++, hap ac2 around 160
2) laptop 1x1 ac wifi - on c5 around 140-150, hap ac2 around 110
Using ROS 6.42.7, bandwidth 80Mhz, without fastrack (but during speedtest, hap ac2 cpu utilization is around 25% iirc without fasttrack).

p/s: might not right method because me rely only on speedtest, but 95% that tplink really beat hap ac2 wifi speed

Try again with fastrack enabled :-)