double post..

This post has been edited by cyberic: Oct 9 2018, 11:37 AM

I'm using this one with TIME 500Mbps. No problem. Should be the same with TM.

However, I updated to latest RouterOS version, reset and found out it has fast path enabled.

I don't have VLAN configured like what you might need to do for TM UniFi though (for HyppTV).

You can check out the RB750GL with 500Mbps Unifi below. CPU 98%

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4655160/all

hAP AC is not very good. I definitely do not recommend using it as your main router and AP. I did some tests here, https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/4658454, and CPU usage was 50% pushing 400Mbps from Ethernet to wlan. Tested with iPerf3, minimal config as an AP, no routing, and FastPath on. And it’s not cheap.

For now, budget choices are:
All-in-one: hAP AC2 but only 2x2 MIMO
or router only: RB750Gr3

This post has been edited by soonwai: Oct 9 2018, 05:57 PM

Noted

Greetings,

I got "TURBO-ed" today, from 100 to 800Mbps.

I use a hEX RB750GR3 as first point of connection after GPON. It is running CAPsMAN for a hAP AC2 (that is connected to the hEX and that I connect to via WiFI) and a number of cAP ACs and wAPs.

Have tested connection via WiFi and CAT6 and speeds are equivalent.

I have tried various combinations of FastTrack, FastPath and enabling and disabling PPPoE encryption.

~14% is the highest I have seen the CPU.

231Mbps down and 153Mbps down is the best result from a single test. I have seen the uploads over 230Mbps but the downloads were terrible at that time.

Could anyone with a similar connection please point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

This post has been edited by Dato: Oct 10 2018, 04:49 PM

If the CPU load is that low, that probably means something else is the bottleneck. What device you use to test over the LAN & is it connected directly to the hEX? My friend's old X79 PC struggle to even hit 350mbps with the spectre microcode update & antivirus enabled. Make sure you are connected to the correct LAN port (go check the block diagram) as well, though it shouldn't be that low.

If you config the rules from scratch & not sure if you did it correctly, I suggest you temporarily use 1 of your mikrotik device as the guinea pig as a reference.

Did TM adjust ur speed profile?

BTU which model ?

Thank you very much.

The CAT6 is directly connected to the hEX, the WiFi is via the hAP AC2 that is directly connected to the hEX. The cables are good as I even made some of my own patch cables an interchanged them.

The Mikrotik network has been rock solid here for 3+years. Components have been upgraded as something newer hits the local market.

I have been going backwards and forwards through backup configs and testing as and when a feature was added. Even the most basic of setups are getting similar results.

I was suspecting the CPU usage was that low because of the throughput. What CPU usage would you anticipate with a basic setup? That hEX has a Dual Core 880MHz CPU, so not really weak.

Thank you this a really good hint. Had a look at the switched and un-switched block diagrams and not too sure what I am looking for, I can see that with switching disabled that the odd numbered ports and the even numbered ports are separate groups (channels) but with switching enabled . I haven't set any of the switch parameters and after exporting the config, I couldn't see any reference to "switch". Is this something I should focus on?

Thank you very much for your tips.

Confirmed via TM via Twitter it did take them almost three hours to get back to me. Actually I don't know if they adjusted the profile.

The BTU is the Alcatel Lucent I-240G-T.

This post has been edited by Dato: Oct 10 2018, 06:00 PM

Check your Fasttrack counters to see if your Speedtest is being fasttracked. Perhaps something is preventing it.

The overall CPU usage remains low for me too when I max out the RB750Gr3 with Fasttrack Off. Check individual CPU threads (/system resource cpu). In my case one of the threads maxes out.

Mine is Turbo500.
Fasttrack On: DL: 530Mbps UL: 110Mbps
Fasttrack Off: DL: 270Mbps UL: 110Mbps

5 simple queues (1 900M queue for the test PC), 19 firewall rules (including the 2 for Fasttrack), no mangles, vlan50 for LAN traffic.

After removing the 900M queue for test PC.
Fasttrack Off: DL: 350Mbps UL: 110Mbps


With Fasttrack off. CPU at 50%. One core is maxed out.

I'm not using CAPSMAN. I do use VLANs so hardware offload for the switch is off due to that.

This post has been edited by soonwai: Oct 10 2018, 06:23 PM

Thank you!

Traffic seems to be fasttracked.


ip-forward: yes
send-redirects: yes
accept-source-route: no
accept-redirects: no
secure-redirects: yes
rp-filter: no
tcp-syncookies: no
max-neighbor-entries: 8192
arp-timeout: 30s
icmp-rate-limit: 10
icmp-rate-mask: 0x1818
route-cache: yes
allow-fast-path: yes
ipv4-fast-path-active: no
ipv4-fast-path-packets: 0
ipv4-fast-path-bytes: 0
ipv4-fasttrack-active: yes
ipv4-fasttrack-packets: 536551
ipv4-fasttrack-bytes: 591550858

This post has been edited by Dato: Oct 10 2018, 06:15 PM

I mean check the Fasttrack dummy rule in /ip firewall. See whether it increases when you do your speedtest. If it does, means it's being fasttracked.

RB4011iGS+RM

Looks good! Overkill for home?

Confirmed it does go up.

Must be something else then. I don’t use capsman so not sure if that affects anything. It shouldn’t if your test pc is connected directly to the rb750gr3.

Got another computer to test. Not windows if possible.

Dato hEX RB750GR3 can hit 1,972.2 Mbps base on this test results
https://mikrotik.com/product/RB750Gr3#fndtn-testresults

This post has been edited by ldragon: Oct 10 2018, 11:36 PM

Nice spec ! never overkill we say "future proof"

You cannot simply use that figure. It is simply useless as it doesn't include the PPPoE overhead. For broadband 500mbps & above*, it is hard to recommend RB750Gr3 over hAP ac2 that just cost a little more. Yes, you can get over 1600mbps on PPPoE with fasttrack, but the moment you tax the cpu with VPN etc, the throughput will tank. So I hope nobody will assume RB750Gr3 can handle that 1G PPPoE routing while making use of VPN/Queue at the same time. I only recommend RB750Gr3 for broadband 300mbps symmetric & below, unless you're ok with using it for routing and some some firewall rules. hAP ac2 is much better performance than RB750Gr3. Above that will be the new RB4011 (probably just under 1K for RM version). I never recommended RB3011 as it was poorly supported with missing hw ipsec support (they finally added it recently) and other issues.