CAPSMAN over WiFi

RouterOS General
1

Hi,

I have recently bought a MikroTik hAP ax S and a MikroTik hAP be lite. The roles are as follow:

  • hAP ax S acts as the main router and has a GPON stick. It substitutes the ISP router.
  • hAP be lite acts as an extender of the WiFi signal. I want it to just an AP for now.

The issue is that I cannot run for now a cable from the hAP ax S to hAP be lite, although I'm already planning to do it. I'm thinking to connect both of them via WiFi using the 5GHz signal. I only use the 2.4GHz for the main signal on the hAP be lite.

The signal level from the ax S to the be lite is roughly -75dBm on the 5GHz band and -65dBm on the 2.4GHz.

Which suggestions do you have? How should I configure them?

I have experience configuring MikroTIk using the CCR models but I haven't done it yet for WiFi. Also other options that it isn't using CAPSMAN is also accepted.

I would like to have WPA2/WPA3 (probably only WPA3 even better), WiFi Roaming and I good WiFi signal using steering and any options that you might suggest.

Thanks a lot

2

U can use 5 GHz as backbone (station bridge mode, locally managed) and set 2.4 GHz iface only to be managed by capsman.

3

So technically, although far from ideal, I can do it without bigger issues right?

4

Yes, it should work fine. I actually used this setup myself for a while between a hAP ax2 and a hAP ac2 (using the wifi-qcom-ac drivers on ac2) and it ran very reliably. The station-bridge mode acts as a fully transparent bridge, so it will behave just like a standard wired connection.

5

In the end, i'm trying to do this to keep the 5GHz channel:

Question: what does the "DFS channel failed" mean?

image
image960×540 43 KB

6

I do the same via 2.4Gas station. it works well
the 5G wifi then acts as CAP under the control of remote router via CAPsMAN

7

Therefore, you should use 2.4 for communication between devices and 5 for access points

8

Sorry to jump into the discussion... I can't test it on mine, so I'm asking here: can I configure the main interface as a station-bridge and then create a VAP managed by CAPsMAN?