Today I upgraded from 7.19.6 to 7.20.1 and 5G quit working. The 5G Wifi says that it’s running and so does the interface, but the bridge shows the port status as inactive. I can’t manually restart it so I’m at a loss as to what I’m missing here. Hoping that it’s just something silly. It worked up u…

[image] oldpilot: The 5G Wifi says that it’s running and so does the interface, but the bridge shows the port status as inactive. Bridge port status will change to active as soon as first wireless station connects to AP. So the big question is: does your AP appear on scan list of some wirele…

Without seeing your configuration it’s hard to say what could be wrong… But 5GHz coming up after few minutes is a normal behaviour if you are using DFS channel. AP first must scan for any radar in the area before bringing up 5 GHz radio to avoid interfering with the radar. I think that device repor…

I tried using the Quick Set on this so it wasn’t gumming stuff up. I just need it to work without any problems which it usually does. The configuration files don’t show much. [admin@MikroTik] > /interface/wifi/print Flags: M - MASTER; B - BOUND; R - RUNNING Columns: NAME, MASTER-INTERFACE, CONFIG…

Configuration can be shared with: /export file=anynameyoulike Remove serial and any other private info, post as Preformatted text by using the </> button.

No it doesn’t appear on any scan list from any phone or device that I have. In detail mode it shows that the State of the 5G is running.

Thanks for that… first try at getting my configuration printed… I didn’t know.

This has been resolved now. Apparently, when you use the Quick Set it doesn’t actually set 5G correctly to the 5G frequencies. Once I set the frequencies to 5150-5825 everything popped up on the network the way it was supposed to. Thank you for giving me some things to look at during this process.

Rule #4, JFYI: [image] The twelve Rules of Mikrotik Club Beginner Basics Preamble and disclaimer: The following is a set of Rules that are intended as advice useful to avoid the most common errors observed in configuration posted on this forum. It is my perso…

As @jaclaz posted, and in case you didn’t read it, using quickswt with Mikrotik is a no no… Why ? Because quickset is known to cause problems when you use it for first setup and then you try to configure something else. Best practice is to leave it alone.

Bridge shows 5G inactive after upgrade to 7.20.1

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jaclaz October 21, 2025, 2:39pm 9

Rule #4, JFYI: