Make sure you have long preamble turned on as well. You have to click advanced under options to see it. It helps on Mac OS X, iOS is very similar.
I would also recommend a second card. You can have the same SSID on both and roam. Justin Miller On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Rory McCann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've never used wireless on Mikrotik before, so I figured the next time I had > a project it would be a good time for initiation. > > I've got a client/coworker who has an iPad that they use to control and > stream music to their stereo that has speakers in their garage and outside on > their patio. Due to the size of the house/area and the materials involved > (steel siding, etc) they are not able to get very good performance with an AP > just in the garage. Rather than add an additional AP, we opted to run one > antenna outside and keep one inside for the garage area. > > I have a 433AH with an R52Hn wireless card. There's two antenna connectors on > it and it seemed like it would be pretty straight forward, however I'm not > having much luck getting any kind of reliable performance with the unit at > all. Wi-Fi drops often and the streaming doesn't work at all. I know the > antennas are good because I hooked up a lower power Cisco AP to the antennas > for the time being, but I was hoping to use the MT with the R52Hn for a > little extra push. The goal is to allow them to roam from the garage to the > patio without dropping. > > I'm not sure what I have configured incorrectly, but I have the regulatory > domain set, the 802.11 profile set and the card is configured for 802.11bgn > mode. Looking at the transmit powers under current tx power in Winbox, the > max it shows is 22 - I thought this card went to 25 on lower modulations? > > Anyone have any pointers for me on how to get this working? Here's the config: > > /interface wireless > set 0 antenna-gain=8 country="united states" band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2437 > frequency-mode=regulatory_domain l2mtu=2290 mode=ap-bridge name=AP > scan-list=default ssid=MA2 wireless-protocol=802.11 wmm-support=enabled > > Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120831/2336cd70/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
