Hello Andy.Hello!
Happy New year.
Dear Normis and Mikrotik team.
I'm happy to announce that I've been able to faithfully serve clients for many years off a network of Mikrotik Access points - AC. Netmetals, QRT and the like, with Dynadishes and Discs or Netmetals at client locations.
It's worked faithfully for years.
I've been waiting patiently for the new line of products to come out. Not those that work with LTE as I don't operate there yet. Not those that work at short range, though I'm using those products. I'm talking about 802.11 AX or BE.
We need:
1. The higher modulation rates either standard offers.
2. We need a drop in solution that is identical to what has worked for years.
3. We need the information from the Experts @ Mikrotik to guide us on how to make the products work with each other, as it seems elusive.
I was able to make one HAP AX work across my yard to another HAPAX3. It created a bridge wireless and I was able to squeeze about 800 mbps out of an 80 mHz channel. There was some confuzzling on my part that occurred as it seems the new Wireless package with Qcom is well... finnicky.
So - We need to roll out products with an 800mbps to 2.5gbit capacity on the wireless and we want to use Mikrotik. Please HELP.
My tower crew replaced an AC Netmetal with an AX netmetal.
Then we went to a local client and installed a basebox AX with a mtik 30 dish.
There are no other clients on the sector. There is plenty of signal. I've literally spent 8 hours trying to get the settings into a place where the product will work and maintain a link. I've read forum posts. I've adjusted settings. I've narrowed frequency. I'm operating at the correct EIRP and the correct country. I'm colocated on a tower with no other providers. Signal is good but the link drops as soon as I send a ping. It links back up then drops, again and again. There is no information in the log as to what caused the issue. All of the encryption settings are ditto. I've failed my config back to nothing at all and tried as I might to make this work. I've upgraded to the latest V7. I've downgraded to V7.14. No luck. Nothing I can come up with in my little pea brain is working and I'm usually pretty good at this since I've spent most of my adult life doing so.
So please - From the bottom of my heart.... I want to buy more mikrotik products and I need to know EXACTLY how to make a simple 20KM link work for a PTP or AP to Client PTMP scenario with the new QCOM driver. Or please bring us back to some sort of workaround driver that will give us the kind of performance and reliability we need to continue to service rural clients and continue to purchase mikrotik equipment as I would prefer to stay within this ecosystem.
Very Kind regards, and many thanks to the multitude of folks who share their experiences, tricks, and tips.
Love, Andy.
I had the same problem as you when I was setting my ptp. You need to set the distance on the configurantion tab.
But even with this setted I have the problem with the high latency while making a bandwidth test.
The mikrotik sell this netbox and netmetal ax as an outdoor device, but without any TDMA protocol it seens to be useless as outdoor PTP or PTMP.
I am disappointed and will go back to use the old netbox ac. Hope mikrotik fix it with a new AX driver soon.
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