Wireless Networking • 5GHz channels disappeared on hAP ax2

I'm starting to despair with Mikrotik Wi-Fi. Yeah, yeah I know - why do I even persist as it really is their weak point

I wanted to get some experience of RouterOS v7 and Wi-Fi 6 so I bought a hAP ax2 before Christmas to use at home on my dev network. I've gone from never having to worry about the Virgin Media SuperHub to seeming to have Winbox open all the time! You wouldn't expect VM to get praise!

Today's problem - latest version v7.13 and I wondered why my laptop seemed to be very slow transferring an ISO. Checked Wi-Fi and it's connected at 2.4GHz. Now this does sometimes happens with Windows so I turned Wi-Fi back off and on, sat 2m from the router. No difference. Brought up Wi-Fi analyser on my mobile and the 5GHz channels have totally disappeared. Just the distant neighbours Virgin Media SuperHub:



I disabled and re-enabled the wireless interfaces (I have a private LAN and guest VLAN) and it's come back:



I see there are quite a few posts about problems with Mikrotik AX Anything obvious to try? At a clients site, the cap AC access points have to be rebooted every night to maintain a stable system...

Statistics: Posted by robmaltsystems — Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:30 pm

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