Audience features

RouterOS Wireless Networking
1

Hi guys,

I am planning to replace my Aruba Instant-On with Audience. It is a 3band Ap, however, can the 3rd 1733 Mbit/s band be assigned to clients or it is only for mesh between Aps?

Thank you

2

Hi, yes it can do it both way, just set it to ap bridge mode and it can use as 3rd wifi connection for all clients.

3

Thank you for your advice, in terms of frequencies for the 3rd band which I slightly higher than standard 5Ghz, would the clients be able to see that network?

4

Depends on your region, some region do channel 100 while some do 149

5

Thank you, I was meant to say that the frequencies of the 3rd band are slightly different, not in terms of channels but rather GHz :slight_smile:

5.18 - 5.3 GHz for clients for by default
5.5 - 5.85 GHz for meshing by default

5.5 - 5.85 GHz is it a standard band or some sort of proprietory for Mikrotik audience only? :slight_smile:

6

5.5 - 5.85 GHz is standard wifi channel, it equals to channel 100 to 165.

7

Hi so on my Audience I wish to use wlan3 for the lower 5Ghz frequencies, but selection field (I use winbox) currently only allows 5500 - 5825 Mhz as options (in 20Mhz width) how do I change this to allow 5180Mhz (Channel 36) and above, and therefore the full 5Ghz range on this wlan3 radio?

I’m not using the mesh features btw.

Thanks

Steve

8

No, you cannot. Wlan3 is usable only with that frequency range. In a topic somewhere in here, someone stated that even if you could bypass this limitation via software, there’s also some-sort of a hardware lock. So, for channel 36, use wlan2.