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I would like to ask what is the best mode for a network running AC access points but a mix of N and AC (arm) CPEs: NV2, nstreme or 802.11 ? Let me describe my environment and how it came about to help you understand the stage I'm at and my current dilemma. I have a wisp environment where I started ...

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Yes and yes

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This is not AC mode, AC mode will reach around 240Mbps on 40MHz :P yeee single TCP stream 240 Mbit from 40 Mhz :D Mby in lab. Impossible: 802.11ac MCS9 = 200Mbps is highest possible connection rate for 40Mhz channel, one stream. You are on dual stream. You can't beat the standard... The guy never s...

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Hi all,
Someone has tested more scenarios with ARM, 5ghz AC, ROS 6.44 with NV2 or 802.11?
we´ve been facing this issues on our network and we need to solve this...

~150 RB922 AP and ~2000 arm CPE

Upgrade yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!

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just a question; now for ptp link wich is better between nv2 and 802.11n? nv2 was designed to optimise performance of point to multipoint networks. Usually vanilla 802.11 is faster in ptp however in cases where there is interference nv2 can perform better than 802.11. When setting up ptp links I al...

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Thank you!

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But yeah, finetuning your P2MP is the hot word here. And one new AP or frequency shift from a competitor can throw all your hours of finetuning overboard ..... :? Yes its a never ending battle in p2mp. You are very lucky you can get good results on 80mhz. I don't have 80mhz of clean, contiguous spe...

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So far, 802.11ac on ARM devices is the best choice. My opinion. My APs are mostly netmetal (mipsbe AC) and my CPEs are typically LHG XL (mipsbe N) I use NV2 with dynamic downlink of 70/80% and 20Mhz channels To be fair to Mikrotik, since the couple of changes they made in 2018 our bandwidth per sec...

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A sector with 15 clients a/n/40mhz and the one I've tested is old single core .ac. Under each picture you can find the protocol used. Sadly in 802.11 is not stable and clients gets a lot of disconnections so I'm sticking with nstreme. The conclusion is Mikrotik have lost speed in any protocol, a lo...

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Default-config script on shipped version doesn't set up the router fully, it applies IP address 192.168.88.1 to ETHER1 and that's about it. Use mac-winbox to connect and setup to your liking. Alternatively you can try upgrading to latest version and resetting to factory defaults again, maybe the new...

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6.41 [current]
*) wireless - added passive scan option for wireless scan mode;

Can someone please explain what this new option does.

Thanks.

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I am trying to hook my cell up to my laptop so i can get GPS on Network Stumbler and dont know how to go about doing this?

piss off

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Hi, What is a good manufacturer of sector antennas? High quality construction, needs to excel in back-to-front and port-to-port isolation and other antenna design characteristics. Need to take a modular approach on a crowded spot in order maximize throughput and looking for the highest quality secto...

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If this is a PTMP setup I would opt for the 19dbi sector antenna. Unless you have an extreme lack of space, or if you are setting up a close-range network (you wouldn't be asking about max distance if that were the case), then it's worth going for the much useful extra 4db of the mANT 19 paired with...

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Are you sure you're a Mikrotik trainer?

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Networkfudge, I currently have the channel width set to 20/40/80MHZ XXXX, according to what I can read, I need to set it to eCee? I have no other 5GHZ networks around. Please advise. Sorry, I edited my post as I was replying late at night from memory without consulting Winbox. Please see updated po...

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From your rates I'm guessing you are on 20mhz but you need more if you want higher throughput. This new XXXX option I'm guessing it tries to automatically set the best control frequency, but in any case it's a new development and I haven't found documentation for it, so try manually setting the requ...

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I am sure the xtra $$ is good value, just asking besides the 256MiB, what is the impetus to move up to the board? Better hardware. Traditionally, flagship ROUTEROARDs had higher quality components than lower cost home market solutions. When comparing the two routers, routing performance is similar ...

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Hahahaha you are very funny. You want me to pay $40 more bucks for 256MiB? and lose a USB port in the process (only a shitty usb.2.0 port so I guess its not much of a loss). Plus my cat will pee on the board way before if I figure out how to wire the thing into my outlet. Can I use low voltage wire...

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I'm from Mumbai and i want to start WISP. can you guide me about 1)What are the hardware require for WISP with cable also. router --> cable --> basestation antenna with access point 2)from where can i apply for ISP licences. From the ISP Licencing office. Duh! 3)What is Class B and Class C license ...

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As others have pointed your signal levels are terribly low for such short distances. This means that your links are misaligned, not to mention also potentially riddled with LOS, fresnel, intererference and frequency problems. If you don't take care to make a good job at the physical layer, then noth...

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No need for the forward accept rule. It is difficult to understand what you are trying to accomplish. I assume you are trying to open TCP/445 from the outside through the firewall. If so then it is a 2 step process: Step one, you need to define the dstnat rule: /ip firewall nat add action=dst-nat ch...

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Have you tried the trick with the LCD screen?; I had success with it at a customer site once

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Start a new thread. This one here is for a different issue. I have a Chenbro 4U server with an older dual LGA 2011 (v1) Foxconn motherboard. It has 2x SFP + 10 Gb ports (1 ethernet port, but it's for BMC). I also have a Cisco SG200-26 gigabit switch. As I've learned recently, you can't connect a SFP...

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If these routers have an lcd screen and if its not locked and you have physical access, you can maybe restore a previously saved configuration via the lcd screen.

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Mikrotik when the introduction?

+1

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Setup your wap ac as an AP not a router, you can probably accomplish this from quickset but I've never used it. Add ether1 and WLANs to a bridge, add a DHCP client to the bridge for management and you're done, same L2 network as your archer

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Narrowing the scan-list on the CPE will reproduce what you are describing, on the AP it shouldn't have any effect whatsoever.

After a reboot we have noticed a much faster clients wireless registration when scan list it reduced, if it's set to Default or in the above example it will take longer.

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Are you certain about this? I had always thought that scan-list has no effect in AP modes? [/quote] Just curious why you have set the scan-list=5000-6000 as this results in the AP to listen to all frequencies between 5-6GHz - we when using 20Mhz channels set our AP's -/+ 20Mhz above and below the AP...

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we are talking about wisp therefore my suggestion using RB800 because we are handling minimum per AP 50client. how many basebox can handle client..? i dont have experience with basebox need advice for best AP especially mikrotik. Thanks rb800 is an old way to do things i refer to the model of one C...

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If you have enough addresses to assign to all customers then the cleanest solution would be to set up a pppoe server. Then each customer will have their own ip and if you use a radius server you will have good stats/accounting

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I would argue that one must always test radio links with single tcp stream. Testing whether your tcp connection can build up and withstand its speed is the one true benchmark when it comes to testing your layer 1 (radio link in our case). Say for example you get 70meg with 1 connection tcp traffic ...

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Here's what I would do A. Go to base level 1. Upgrade ROS to anything newer than 6.42rc46 (significant improvement in nv2) 2. Set a 20Mhz channel 3. Set all data rates to auto and remove all other non default settings / "tweaks" 4 Change nv2 period size to auto with dynamic downlink B. Find a clean ...

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I can confirm a consistent 2x increase in bandwidth on 1 N and 3 AC basestations after this update. 20mhz channel, nv2 period size auto, dynamic downlink 70% Bandwidth increase observed before upgrading routerboard firmware on basestation and without touching any of the CPE devices. This free, yet s...

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Next mistake, sq noise -106, 711 -117, wtf mates.

Two different stations can absolutely have different noise floors, since they are in different physical locations.

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Managed to accomplish my goal using freeradius.

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Create pptp-in interface for the user, then reference that in firewall / routing Hello CZFan and thanks for your reply, if you read the original post carefully I am trying to figure out a solution which also distinguishes the traffic by dialed in IP address. I am trying to achieve a dynamic solutio...

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I have a mtik router set up as a pptp server. I need to forward the traffic coming from tunnels terminated to a specific router ip address, via a particular gateway. So basically if this traffic is coming through tunnel(s) which are terminating on router public ip address 1.2.3.1, then forward via g...

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I had tested the original RB-750UP a couple of years ago but found it somewhat unreliable, especially if more than three devices were powered on by the router. Also it was prone to malfunction (POE out on some ports died on two occassions), but my cables were not shielded in my test setup so that co...

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Just focus on not having crappy stations. Bad signal = lower modulations = lower rates = lower overall AP throughput. One bad CPE at basic rate 6mbit will cripple your entire setup. The goal here is not to have bad signals. Try not to have lower than -65dbm when possible.

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Wow. Excellent work!

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Your question is not related to this thread, try starting a new one

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I forgot to mention that when trying to get this to work I add wlan1 and ether1 on the cpe onto a bridge, so L2 connectivity is maintained through the other side of ether1, which is the hex router. I'm really thinking it's the default forward setting on the access point, that is not allowing for tru...

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In our wisp we use pppoe-client on cpe devices (lhg,sxt,etc) which runs on top of the wireless interface wlan1. wlan1 is a client of the sector ap. I have a situation where I want to set up the cpe to terminate the wireless connection, then have another routerboard (hex poe) terminate the pppoe-clie...

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Check for firewall entries on the 751.

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POE-out port on ac lite is 0.5a so max power draw is 12w. Dynadish max power draw is 9w, factored in with a bit of voltage drop (due to utp cable length/quality) to get to the dynadish then this power should be just about adequate. But then you have to add this 12w max power draw on the poe out port...

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Hi Mikrotik Team. Actualize answer to the question. Considering that in the download section has RouterOS for ARM, now Banana PI BPI-R1 will work with RouterOS. Am I right? You are wrong. Read normis reply again more closely: RouterOS works only on two type of devices: 1. x86 PC box (real or virtua...

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AC offers the possibility of higher throughput due to denser modulations and wider bands, it has nothing to do with radio tx power and rx sensitivity.These parameters will not automatically be better because the chip is AC. E.g. compare the RB922UAGS-5HPacD with NetMetal5 (RB921UAGS-5SHPacT-NM). At ...

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20mhz only-N nv2 11 clients 30-40Mbps

Many thanks for your reply it is greatly appreciated!

Really hope others also join in on this thread.

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How much are you getting out of a single Mikrotik NV2 access point at peak usage?

10meg? 20meg? 40meg?

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Seems like people don't like to share their experiences on this forum.

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Bump? Anyone with feedback from their own experiences?

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Hi, Can other wisps post advice and tips for getting the best out of my NV2 PTMP setups? I have sectors/CAPs with rocketm5/airmax that reach 30-40meg every night. The other night I saw a rocket peak at 58mbit with 25 registrations. On the other hand I have my Mtik CAPs which are usually basebox5 and...

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VPN coming from a mikrotik server set up in my house keeps breaking every time the IP changes. DNS address that comes with the routerboard allows to go around my dynamic IP, however every time the IP changes, mikrotik needs a reboot for VPN to work again (applies to both PPTP and SSTP). I can simpl...

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Post your configuration.

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so with this 6dB omni antenna ishould use many of them. how about using 15db antenna instead if it? 15 dBi antennas need more power and you must replace original power adapters with 24 volt 3 amp adapter and if your want use your wifi network for servicing smartphones there is no different between ...

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Hi Geeks i have a problem from my customers that have UBNT AP like Loco M5 or Nanostation etc, what would be best Mikrotik sector Config so that internet and ping will not give timeout Note that i only use Mikrotik but these UBNT are switching from other providers Sorry to break it to you but your ...

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On paper its very doable. In practice to have anything usable at these distances you need good quality antennas, good calibration, good LOS and of course a good channel. Also forget about wider channels at the moment, see if you can find a good 20mhz channel and if everything I've mentioned above is...

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Post your router config

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Not that the lady isn't very skillful but it's probably a bit more complicated than that!

+1 anyway its a very good idea, especially in webfig where chrome gets really sticky while loading log entries and you have to wait for a few hundred entries to load up just to see the last entry.

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Great until mAP number 2 fails and takes down 3,4,5. Good point and that's exactly what happened to us three times within 6 months. The map itself did not fail it kept running, it just wasn't powering up the next device anymore. Very strange. We replaced with R2 now, hopefully that's cured it.

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Use a decent cable. Also you may need a higher volt/amp power pack. In general the more devices you have the more amp you need and the longer the cables the higher the starting voltage required to compensate for the voltage drop due to cable resistance. Buy r2 as the first revision hardware had some...

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There are Switch1 and Switch2.

Wan1 of Port1 on Switch 1, Bridge1 of Port2-5 through DHCP1 on Wan1
Wan2 of Port6 on Switch 2, Bridge2 of Port7-10 through DHCP2 on Wan2

Masquerade on each separate way.

Set ports 3-4-5 of each switch to use their respective switch's port 2 as master port.

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However, maybe there is a solution to why VPN stops working in the first place so I wouldn't have to reboot it so often. What could possibly cause it? DNS is just a human-friendly alias. The real address is the ip address. The DNS name is resolved to an IP address and the VPN connection is establis...

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Don't try too hard to go for the ideal scenario you have in your head, approach the problem from a usefulness point of view. E.g. I don't think there is any real benefit from a performance point of view from having true wirespeed for anything else but vlan250.

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Post your configuration.

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My understand is that 10 clients all registering -60dbm would have a better overall service than 1 of 10 having a signal strength -85db. For the reason I have drawn the conclusion that it might be best to group clients with similar signal strength readings to the same AP where possible. Your observ...

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The absence of spectral scan/history features make working with NetMetal and other Mtik AC radios a bit like a stab in the dark. Mikrotik: you shone a bright light in the way of achieving wireless perfection with these fine weapons, why did you take them away from us? How are we supposed to properly...

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With -96dBm RX sensitivity you can only achieve 6MBit basic rate MAX which is not adequate for the OP needs.
True, true... though the OP asked "if this is even possible"... possible, it is; tremendous, it is not

That is very true [emoji1]

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According to mikrotik wireless link calculator, http://www.mikrotik.com/test_link.php it should be okay with two dynadishes (1000mW power, -96 RX sensivity, 25dBi gain) https://routerboard.com/RBDynaDishG-5HacD If your country allows such emission power (30dBm emission + 25dBi gain = 55 !).. With -...

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Hi Mikrotik! Why you do not produce very simple MIMO streamers for classic satelite dishs ??? They could be very cheap, easy mountable to any satellite dish, small for shipping and can save place on roofs ! Merry Christmas mate your wish has just come true! http://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/LD...

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Hi Mikrotik! Why you do not produce very simple MIMO streamers for classic satelite dishs ??? They could be very cheap, easy mountable to any satellite dish, small for shipping and can save place on roofs ! Merry Christmas mate your wish has just come true! http://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/LD...

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Anyone tried the feeder yet? I'm suspecting/hoping that some satellite dishes can do a lot better than 30dbi Sent from my MotoG3 using Tapatalk You are not limited to 90cm, you can use bigger dishes too Are you saying that a 90cm satellite dish with this feeder/ap will provide the same gain as a ma...

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Anyone tried the feeder yet? I'm suspecting/hoping that some satellite dishes can do a lot better than 30dbi

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This info you have mentioned and more can be inferred by other link metrics already available to routeros users albeit a prerequisite is that you have to actually know what you are doing.

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Had similar symptoma with a customer but in my case it was isolated because replacing the affected cpe (sxt5hpnd) fixed it.

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As I understand it each light has its own integrated wifi module. This rules out nv2/tdma. Regarding 10mhz channels they are a great idea but have to be supported by the light.

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So I have emailed Mikrotik asking for the file format, with the aim of creating a tool to automate the collection and parsing of spectral scans from our AP deployment. We are having bad noise issues so we want to see if there are patterns, wether it's constrained to certain locations, etc. Our topo...

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Something like http://extralink24.eu/poe-injectors/ (as an example) is pretty much the best you're going to get... Not only is 'passive' POE not really a standard, but it's also not widely implemented in terms of switches Simply not true. The Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch range of switches cover all POE type...

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can someone explain practical difference between 2 and 3 chain versions of NetMetal 5 for point-to-point links ? For what antenna is that ? Extra chain = 1/3 more bandwidth. For example at 802.11N 40Mhz we have max 150MBit if using single chain, 300MBit for dual chain and 450MBit for 3x chain. http...

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it is proprietary. we intended to make a viewer for it, but it never has been finished.

Hi Normis, can you let us know if someone will be working on finishing the viewer soon?
As suggested this could be as simple as having routeros "play back" the saved file.

Thanks for your reply.

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Post your config

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Is this the ping time between the monitoring system and the bras?

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for your budget LHG is your only option. It should provide a usable link. What kind of bandwidth do you need this ptp link to carry?

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There is no invincible TCP bonding happening, speedtest.net opens multiple connections, that is why you can reach your aggregate speed when using both addresses and ports. It's great and the best classifier to use for maximum throughput but it breaks many secure sites like banking sites.

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Anybody has seen some antenna diagrams de SXT-HG's? ('n' y 'ac' models). And the normal SXT diagrams are also not very usable. The Vertical axis of the gain has no figures which makes the diagram almost useless. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ozZITsd7ZzTVBSVXVseXREZDg/view Here is the non-ac ve...

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/ip firewall nat
add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat dst-address=1.1.1.1 dst-port=34567 protocol=tcp to-addresses=\
    10.10.10.10 to-ports=34567

where 1.1.1.1 is your public ip address, 10.10.10.10 is the dvr address and 34567 is the tcp port number

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Funny, I went with that, too after my gns3-trials. For Mikrotik to appear in the OS-List, I first had to update unetlab http://www.unetlab.com/2014/11/upgrade-unetlab-installation/ The initial installation doesn't have a Mikrotik Template for the GUI, updateing retrofits that. Yes after updating I ...

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Hello Alex, I've followed your instructions, everything completes without any errors: # /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 chr-6.34.1.vmdk hda.qcow2 # mkdir -p /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/mikrotik-6.34.1 # mv hda.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/mikrotik-6.34.1/ # /opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_w...

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It takes some time for the CHR-QEMU-VMs so start. Especially on first boot, console login may take a few minutes (not longer than five in my setups). You still need to have a switch if you want to connect a CHR to a Cloud - directly connecting results in errors. It's so slow it's ridiculous, and th...

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I have tested MT eoip to linux, but performance really bad. VPLS would be great, but not sure there is MT to linux vpls implementation... Not sure about eoip on linux but vpls is certainly vendor independent. Have you considered replacing your linux box with a router? A CCR1009 is enough to handle ...

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Star topology is a network topology which consists of a central node, to which all other nodes are connected. Your network is not a star topology.

You can implement ospf for routing between sites. For L2 communication the easiest would be to use eoip but mpls/vpls would give you the best performance.

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Attached are the patterns for HG as provided by Mikrotik.
They haven't got patterns for the SA models.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ozZI ... sp=sharing

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Got it to work, with the qemu 32bit binary and only the 6_31 image so far

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Other things I've tried:

I tried to connect from the terminal of the gns3 vm

ssh gns3@localhost -p 2005

.

Tried downgrading the vm to gns3 1.3 .

Also tried the older image chr_6_31.img

It still just hangs.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions

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I tried to make this work with a local server (qemu image), I can drag and drop the CHR device into GNS3 and start it without any errors, however when I try to connect to the console I'm getting a blank putty screen. I tried running the GNS3 VM and connected to it as a remote server from my windows ...

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For my wisp network I use mangle rules and dynamic queues on my internet router to optimize the bandwidth that I get from my upstream provider. This works great. To manage individual subscriber bandwidth I use simple queues on the CAPs. This also serves me well. I'm now wondering: if I were to use d...

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Ok let me try and rephrase this. I have in place different mangle rules and pcq queue trees for bandwidth management and QoS. In addition to this I would like, for some source networks, to not allow more than 500k of TX per connection. This is an mangle rule and an addition queue tree on the particu...

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Can anyone from Mikrotik comment on this?

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I am not sure that is how it is supposed to work. Besides, that's what use-local-address option is for, right? Let me quote the documentation again: Every minute the cloud service on the router will check if external IP address matches the one sent to server [...] +1 Yes it does sound like Mikrotik...

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Hi what is a simple and effective way of limiting the maximum tx speed of any connection passing through my router.

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OK problem sorted. It turns out you DO need a LOCAL ADDRESS in PPPoE profile for things to work, and it doesn't matter if the address is not in the same subnet as the ip that the client may receive from a pool (either local or radius) because its Point-To-Point-Protocol :) so I was being silly. Sinc...

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Also crashes on VHT and ADVANCED tabs in wireless and shows blank on HT, HT MCS, TX POWER, CURRENT TX POWER, ADVANCED STATUS.

Where is the WIRELESS SCANNER option?

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Rb493 with r52n-m. Go to wireless - data rates --> tik-app crashed

Same here on hap lite.

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I'm using Framed-Pool radius attribute for defining the pool however if I don't have a "local IP address" in the PPPOE profile of my mikrotik nas I get the error mentioned in the previous post. So I need a way to also tell the PPPOE server about the its IP address. I'm pretty sure this exists but I ...

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09:15:04 pppoe,info PPPoE connection established from 00:13:22:34:9E:F6 09:15:04 pppoe,ppp,info,account usertest logged in, 0.0.0.0 09:15:04 pppoe,ppp,info <pppoe-usertest>: authenticated 09:15:04 pppoe,ppp,info <pppoe-usertest>: using encoding - MPPE128 statefull 09:15:04 pppoe,ppp,info <pppoe-use...

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Hi I had the same questions for RBSXTG-5HPnD-SAr2 and RBSXTG-5HPnD-HGr2 so I've e-mailed mikrotik support and I'm waiting on an answer. I will relay what they tell back to this thread.

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Bump? Anyone have any pointers?

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On your LDP interfaces try adding the transport address and specify the IP configured on that interface. Hi, thanks for your answer. Can you be a bit more specific? At the moment Transport address is set to the loopback address of the router in all three routers A, B and C. All loopback addresses a...

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Anyone have any ideas? I can provide additional info if requested. I really need to figure out why it's not working. What's more puzzling is that it works in two fragments but not straight through.

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Try this video guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVTsa59ijD4

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In the x86 router eth2 is part of bridge1. the message is telling you to apply your mangle rule on the bridge1 interface.

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/system identity set name=ROUTER-A /interface bridge add mtu=1500 name=COREBRIDGE protocol-mode=none add mtu=1500 name=LOBRIDGE0 protocol-mode=none /interface ethernet set [ find default-name=ether1 ] name=ether1-CORE set [ find default-name=ether5 ] name="ether5-T1" set [ find default-name=ether6 ...

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/ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat protocol=tcp dst-port=80 action=redirect to-ports=8080 src-address-list=Block /ip firewall filter add chain=forward src-address-list=Block protocol=udp dst-port=53 action=accept add chain=forward dst-address-list=Block protocol=udp src-port=53 action=accept add cha...

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I have this topology: ROUTER A (rb2011) <--> PTP-BR1 (sxt-5hpnd)<--> PTP-BR2 (sxt-5hpnd) <--> ROUTER B (rb2011) <--> AP (sxt-hg) C br1-br2 are connected via transparent wireless bridge. Topology is fully routed and A , B and C are running ospf and mpls. I'm trying to create a vpls tunnel between A a...

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Some multi-band user devices (such as android phones) don't readily show you what spectrum the discovered SSID(s) are on. By default I think it should be different SSIDs, it covers more bases and minimizes confusion to some people that way. Then if user wants of course she should be able to change a...

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Well fair enough I suppose although I did say "the organization's switches"

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Re-installed Windows Server 2012 and bonding to 2011l now works great.

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8 ports is to much for a standard powerplug ...

what makes you say that?

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OK, I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do there but it seems very wrong. Do you have multiple physical ports plugged from the switch into the router? What is the switch? Your best option is going to be to do a bond interface, and then run the VLANs on top of that. LACP mode (802.3ad) is "sa...

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vlans and trunking from mikrotik to switches My organisation has 5 vlans: management traffic vlanid=3, cctv traffic vlanid=4, voip traffic vlanid=5, office traffic vlanid=6 and hotspot traffic vlanid=7 I want to replace the current router (openwrt) with a mikrotik RB2011iL-RM. I'm trying to replicat...

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+ 1 for gigabit and voltage meter and of course a bit more juicy at least 600mhz.

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More powerful access points will not help. You'd better invest in good directional antennas. Example a groove with a good directional antenna Should I replace my access point [and 120 degree sector antenna] with say, six access points with directional 20 degree antennas? Of similar gain? Is this wh...

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Most of our customers are located between 6-12km away from us. Our furthest away customers cannot sustain more than 1-2MBPS of TCP throughput. How can we improve our situation without changing location? We need advice on improving CAP setup and CPE setups. More details below: Our CAP setup is a RB41...

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you'll be hard pressed. the card was created with the purpose of routerOS in mind. You would be better off getting a card from another vendor for your windows 7 machine Sorry for resurrecting such an old thread but I completely disagree with this last statement. I feel its only right for Mikrotik u...

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Hi I'm getting DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION 0x00000133 BSODs when using the rb33ge quad port card on Windows server 2012 Driver: http://www.atheros.cz/atheros-inf-file.php?inf=199&chipset=48&system=5 Motherboard: Asus M4A87TDUSB3 I've tried two of them brand new never used before and they both exibit same...

networkfudge

It would appear that the PEPLINK (well known wan bonding company) solution works by bonding PPTP VPN tunnels. According to their website: Peplink’s Site-to-Site VPN Bonding aggregates VPN traffic across multiple Internet links into one big pipe. PPTP VPN provides a secure remote access of the networ...

networkfudge

Hi, this is my first post so thanks for having me. I've looked at other threads but couldn't find all the info I needed so I decided to start a new thread. Please excuse my horrendous diagram, it does not conform to any network diagram standards but I hope it helps visualize what we are trying to ac...

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