Beginner Question - wAP ac LTE

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi, I am very new to Mikrotik products and have little networking knowledge so please be gentle :slight_smile: I am looking to buy a wAP ac LTE to use as 4G failover on my home network. I currently have BT Fibre as my main internet connection going into a Ubiquiti ER4 router and POE switch. What I would like to know is, if I buy a wAP ac LTE for my 4G connection, can I connect it to my POE switch on eth1to provide the power and use that port for management and bridge on eth2 for WAN to go into my ER4?

I hope that makes sense. Thanks very much for any help given

Matt

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Hi Matt,

Did you get anywhere with this?

I want to do something similar with 2x wAP ac and 1x wAP ac LTE. The plan is to backbone the APs via a POE switch and have the LTE as a failover internet link. There’s also a secondary purpose to allow the wAP ac LTE to be taken away and used as a hotspot when needed.

Something like this:

I haven’t got very far with any of it yet - other than buying the APs. I would be very interested in seeing your progress and will be posting mine on the forums.

Thanks

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I spent a few minutes drawing up my proposed layout in more detail for anyone that’s interested:

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So,

Things I need to work out:

  • DHCP


  • Wifi - a shared SSID with handoff rather than meshing, that will firm up as I try different approaches.


  • wAP AC LTE: will connect to LTE on standby but preferentially route to the internet via the broadband link


  • wAP AC LTE: may start and stop a separate SSID with DHCP depending on what else it find’s on the LAN.

TTFN

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You should provide any info about this ER4 - we are not support other vendor.
I found this https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-4/ product - 14MB Datasheet give me info that ER4 is WITHOUT PoE. You must use standard power adapter.
Page 15 “Datasheet”:

Power Method Universal AC Power Cord (C13)
Power Supply Internal AC/DC Power Adapter, 30W DC

I think this end your question about power.

Yes, you can use ER4 and wAP ac LTE in many ways. You cen give to ER4 internet via Ethernet or vlan and dhcp-server or lte passtrough mode.

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I read your 3 post’s adn I agree that all 3 scenario can be done and automated.
RouterOS have got all you need: scripts and CLI :).

  • Normal configuration

. Im by thinking you can use both WANs at ones.
Main router is wAP ac LTE. All wifi are the same SSID’s.

  • “FailOver to LTE”

-it’s just the same config, you can use this as normal config with both WAN’s.

  • “… without wAP ac LTE”
  • at just normal wAPac you run scripting… when no internet from wAPacLTE then we use internet from “BBRouter” - I think it’s not big deal to doit.
  • “Only wAPacLTE”
  • you not must do anythink with dualWAN because only LTE is working… you provide the same SSID as always.
    You can do some action at other wAPac that if they not have access to wAPacLTE and to internet from BBRouter and they will be a zombie AP without internet then they should disable wlanX interface to time as internet is comeback from wAPacLTE or BBRouter. Just this.

I not see any problems with all this your schemas.

CONGRATULATION with a doing PHOTO/GRAF - this is perfect and so small number of people doing graphs.

I hope I help you any of my comments.