I am new to mikrotik and not the most experienced user. I have a SXT G-2HnD witch is broadcasting outside the house. It is a barn around 60m from the SXT 2 where the signal is good outside, but inside the barn, cellphones doesn’t have service or WiFi. I sell groceries in this barn and some costumers will pay by phone. Therefor I have been wondering about getting a wAP to extend the SXT 2’s signal inside. So a repeater setup.
The SXT 2 broadcast 2 SSIDs today, Test1 (my personal wifi) and Test1 Guest ( Open costumer wifi). I don’t know how, but is it possible that a wAP can repeat 2 SSIDs at the same time? So i can have my personal wifi and a costumer wifi in the barn?
I have not tried it myself, but since both of your SSIDs are broadcasted by the same radio, I think doing what you need might be possible. The major question here is if RouterOS will allow to create two wireless station interfaces on a single radio.
I suggest you just getting wAP and checking if it works. Even in case running two (ordinary + virtual) wireless stations over a single radio turns out to be impossible, RouterOS has plenty of options how to (wirelessly) tunnel and rebroadcast both of your SSIDs.
Thank you for the reply! Do you have a step-by-step guide or something? Somewhere you reed about it in a good forum post? I still kinda struggle with understanding the routerOS.. The wireless tunneling you are talking about, how can I do that? If that is a common thing for routerOS maybe that’s better?
I would have started from trying to build a simple repeater setup with one ordinary wireless station interface, one virtual wireless station interface and two virtual AP interfaces. That will be the easiest setup to build and understand, provided it works in principle.
When I was talking about the tunneling, I meant something like building a WDS link for your primary SSID, then configuring an IPIP or GRE tunnel over that wireless link and forward the traffic for your guest SSID over that tunnel. You will still need to configure two virtual APs- one for your primary and one for guest SSIDs, but this way you will only need a single wireless station interface, which I’m pretty sure will work.