In my apartment MT AP is installed in the living room. Unfortunately space is so crowded with neighbor's WiFi networks that signal barely reaches 5 mbps in my bedroom.
Thankfully I happened to have another MT router which I can connect over wire to the first one.
In a nutshell I have two MT routers: hAP ac lite (hAP) and RB951-2n (RB). Both use RouterOS 6.36. hAP is the main AP connected to internet through ether1. RB is connected to hAP through ether1. Both routers have ether2-master and wlan under a bridge.
My end goal is some kind of a virtual router with one ethernet port connected to internet and all other interfaces under the same bridge with a seamless WiFi.
My configuration so far is the following:
hAP
- ether1 is connected to internet
- bridge of wlan1 (2.4ghz), wlan2 (5ghz) and ether2-master
- DHCP Server that serves that bridge
- CAPsMAN which has configuration of WiFi identical to wlan1
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/caps-man channel
add band=2ghz-onlyn extension-channel=disabled frequency=2417 name=Matryoshka \
tx-power=10 width=20
/caps-man security
add authentication-types=wpa2-psk encryption=aes-ccm group-encryption=aes-ccm \
name=Matryoshka passphrase=...
/caps-man configuration
add channel=Matryoshka country="united states3" datapath=Matryoshka mode=ap \
multicast-helper=default name=Matryoshka security=Matryoshka ssid=\
Matryoshka
/caps-man datapath
add bridge=bridge client-to-client-forwarding=yes local-forwarding=yes name=\
Matryoshka
/caps-man interface
add arp=enabled configuration=Matryoshka disabled=no l2mtu=1600 mac-address=\
<RB-MAC> master-interface=none mtu=1500 name=cap1 radio-mac=\
<RB-MAC>
/caps-man manager
set ca-certificate=auto certificate=auto enabled=yes upgrade-policy=\
suggest-same-version
- ether1 is connected to hAP
- DHCP Client configured on ether1
- bridge of wlan1 (2.4ghz), ether1 and ether2-master
- All Firewall rules are disabled
- CAP:
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set bridge=bridge certificate=request discovery-interfaces=ether1 enabled=yes \
interfaces=wlan1
1. How can I make CAPsMAN to also manage its own wlan interfaces?
2. What is the best Tx-Power for RB951-2n assuming it serves very small area (5m x 5m)?
3. Bandwidth test (hAP -> RB) shows about 30 mbit for single direction test, 25 mbit for bidirectional tests with 100% CPU load on RB. What can be wrong?
4. What can I improve in the layout?