unifi coming soon, i might change to mikrotik

hows the performance for wifi? is it better compare to most consumer grade routers out there? i see it doesnt have antenna, signal should be good enough right ?

I choose mikrotik, really need more control over network traffic

thanks

will get one when i got unifi

hello all mikrotik users
just wondering

hows the wifi coverage for mikrotik? decent like usual routers out there? or better?

mostly no comes with athenna, so just curious

and will there be hap ac2 model coming to malaysia?

This post has been edited by squall0833: Mar 16 2018, 04:45 AM

thx for the info

i wonder when will hap ac2 coming to malaysia,

that one looks like the one i need

so, for area that's not in coverage, i can use any AP or RP to extend right, as long they are connected to mikrotik, all are controlled by mikrotik right ?

Was thinking to use powerline plug but i heard that might affect radio users,. Not sure if modern powerline plug is still like that or not

can cause interference noises to am fm radio, and even home theater speakers when near to any power sockets that has powerline network plug active

but not sure, maybe powerline plug nowadays fixes that

well i still need more research if decide to go powerline way, since my house is 3 phase power, might not work if in different phase

feel like just direct ethernet + ap, but gonna need to drill holes :/

This post has been edited by squall0833: Mar 17 2018, 02:42 PM

Living in two storey house, and wireless ac signal dropped significantly just a layer of wall(tm provided tp link c1200, which is pretty much almost no signal to rooms where signal need to penetrate 3 layers of wall, even wirelesa n 2.4ghz is like a tiny bar, can only reach 12mbps speed at best, or frequently drop

A layer Wall got 3 bricks thick, quite thick btw
Currently use existing wireless N repeater, but my experience with it not that great, plus it doesn't support 5ghz, it was for streamyx, 4mbps, but now just got unifi, pathetic speed lesser than 20, sometime its connection to router drop, only 3 meter away from router btw lol

Need to set wireless N only mode with 5ghz then at least can reach 32Mbps at max signal,


https://www.tp-link.com/my/products/details...PA8630-KIT.html

Is this gonna work for me? Powerline + wifi dual band,. If i confirm can use powerline..

Or i might do this for saving money,
Use my existing tplink archer d5 adsl router as AP, since it's also gigabit lan plus dual band wifi with pretty good signal

Just drag a cat6 from main unifi router to the old router for dual band wifi extend

Since direct lan cable AP > powerline>wifi repeater

I might use mikrotik router as main

This post has been edited by squall0833: Mar 18 2018, 03:59 AM

Dlink is top 1 on my personal blacklist

Have seen many enough how many dlink product failed

bought hap ac2, need wait 1 month

guess i need to start learning more about mikrotik in details

CloudComputer mikrotik seller,

They are bringing it in, but not arrive yet

Search garage sale there find the seller pm for the price

This post has been edited by squall0833: Mar 23 2018, 12:33 PM

Just finish basic setup for my new mikrotik router

Looks complicate, imma start to learn using routerOS from now on :3

FYI, wifi performance issue is fixed on 6.43rc5 for hap ac2

I'm using it, works great


Hello Sifus, some quick question about simple queue and queue tree

Can I use them simultaneously?

for example, currently I'm prioritizing 80,443 traffics as first priority over all others traffic on Queue Tree also can limit speed by what kind of traffics (differentiate traffics by using packet marks)

then use Simple Queue to do priority and speed limit for clients by local ip addresses (assign them static ip on dhcp and set specific ip address to control)

I'm still looking for a way to force clients to use a specified ip address by their mac address, blocking their network access if they manually change to other ip addresses (prevent them from changing their lan ip)


i tried and it works pretty well for what I need

is it alright to use it that way? any conflict?

This post has been edited by squall0833: May 3 2018, 02:27 AM

i tried that before didnt get it work, maybe i should look into it again, maybe i did wrong back then

btw,

i have Unifi 30
is it normal having queues enabled slows down my speedtest.net result significantly? it stuck around 10-16Mbps,

but normal browsing, http downloads, streaming, utorrent, all still fast like normal at 30+Mbps, except doing speedtests

if i use speedtest.net, i get 10-16Mbps and response kinda slower

if use tm speedtest, sometime pop up error say firewall rules blocked it

when I enable back fasttrack (which also invalidate all queues), then speedtest back to normal


did i do something wrong at firewall rules and queue that affect it?

I'll post my routeros firewall rules screen later tonight when i back home.

This post has been edited by squall0833: May 4 2018, 04:01 PM

hac ac2 user here with 300mbps unifi

wifi range and performance average, but still can 300+ if near router without any wall


direct cable with 35m cat6 can go up to 970mbps,

and not that expensive with rich features

recommended

This post has been edited by squall0833: Nov 18 2018, 01:09 PM

i use auto wor

I found there's a problem with ipv6 and cpu usage on Hap AC2

This post has been edited by squall0833: Dec 2 2023, 05:51 AM

i have that model and im going to update its firmware soon haha, then use it somewhere else

good to know

just got myself RB5009