How do I configure a second Mikrotik router as an additional access point on my home network?
I have two RB951G-2HnD boxes, one is already setup as a ‘Home AP’.
How do I go ahead and configure the 2nd box to become an extra ‘transparent’ AP/bridge.
Does anyone have a guide?
I was looking here, but the instructions are a little too high level for me, I need more details.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/7urv77/how_do_i_configure_a_second_mikrotik_router_as_an/
Thanks in Advance!
Option A.
Remove any routing configuration from the second router (make it dumb) and configure just AP on it.
Option A1. Configure same SSID on it and let the computers too choose AP they use.
Option A2. Configure different SSID to visibly differrentiate which AP you are accessing.
Option B. Configure CAPMAN
Do you mean wired to the main router or a wireless connection to the main unit…
If its simply wired,then do what you would do for an access point…
Both boxes will be hardwired to a switch.
Thanks for the help so far.
Thanks, but I need a guide on how to do option A1.
Thanks, but I need a guide on how to do option A1.
Specify the setup of included devices. Both APs are connected via ether cable to the main switch or sth, or you want one to connect to the other via wireless and transmit further?
Use this as a guide, and look at post #4.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/using-routeros-to-vlan-your-network/126489/1
or any post by me that discusses AP setup.
Both are connected via cat5 to a switch.
I’d like just one SSID on both devices.
AP1 is working fine, I just need to know how to add in AP2 to do the same job on the same SSID.
At the risk of cursing in the church …
Since you’re behind another router:
I think that should do it. If I missed something, surely someone will correct me.
Never touch Quickset again hereafter.
Home AP will make a second separate network if not set to bridge mode. (I don’t like QuickSet, lack of control)
To add an AP to an existing network, just as an extra AP with no own network range, set everything as bridged (ethernet and WLAN interfaces)
The extra AP will extend the network as a switch, and will just bridge/switch connect the AP SSID (wifi) with the rest of the network (ethernet)
The extra network AP must be connected to the LAN side of the other AP. (Important if that other AP does the transition from WAN to LAN (e.g. Home AP)
Detailed example is here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/mikrotik-ap-without-dhcp-integrate-in-existing-subnet/154983/2
I knew it someone would come with a better suggestion 
Yes @holvoetn, surprising that this simple “AP mode (as a switch)” is not in the Quickset list. Too close to CAP mode ? Why force CAPsMAN on small installations ?
Or is it there as a special case of CAP mode for standalone use ?
Or is it too easy to set up. Not for a beginner who just wants to add an AP to a network, but expects to only have to set SSID/password.
Maybe it is available in the Mikrotik Home APP ? (Have yet to test on a free MT, don’t want to mess up my configs)
No. You are correct.
There is, so it seems, no bridging in homeAP, at least not with mAP, where I had a look.
You’d think that especially map and lite would have that as option…
Thanks
I guess I wont need to know which one of these to use then!
PTP Bridge AP
PTP Bridge CPE
Indeed not. Unless you do a wifi interconnect between MT AP (PTP or PtMP), rather than an ethernet connect, which I understand is the case here.
And QuickSet is very limited in its capabilities.
So do not use QuickSet at all (until maybe we find a useful configuration in QuickSet for a network connected AP, which I have not found so far).
Never go to QuickSet after you have done things in the configuration (Webfig or Winbox on the non-QuickSet menus). QuickSet might destroy your settings without warning, it just sets things without taking into account the existing configuration.