I’m just getting into the MikroTik world and bought a CCR2004-16G-2S+PC. Now, of course, I also wanted to have WLAN and thought that several CAP ax would be very practical.
Now I’m rummaging through the documentation and can’t get my head around it. Is it not possible to operate the current WLAN APs on the current routers? The router can only use the ancient CAPsMAN, which is apparently from 2010, and the CAP ax can only use the rudimentary WiFiwave2, which can do pretty much nothing at all. At least that’s what I’ve read.
So either I throw the CCR2004-16G-2S+PC in the bin now and buy, well, what? There doesn’t seem to be anything comparable in terms of performance. Or I’ll have to find some ancient CAP ac boxes in a junkyard somewhere.
That can’t be right, can it? Please tell me that the documentation is just not right.
You can, WiFi menu and CAPsMAN options are available for any model. The confusion comes when you need to run CAPsMAN on a wireless capable router and also want to manage it’s own interfaces, if it can’t run two drivers at the same time, there are problems. But for a CCR, you don’t have any built in wireless cards.
From your problem description I assume your CCR is not running ROS7 ? You might want to start there .. upgrade to 7.18.2.
Basic hooks for capsman for AX devices will then be included by default.
And wifiwave2 not being able to do anything ? Surely you have been reading the wrong material…
Start with the link erlinden gave you.
I have literally had the very setup you are trying to use running for some time now and it works wonderfully. The cAP ax provides solid and fast wireless service and the CCR doesn’t break a sweat. Yet another, user doesn’t know what they are doing or misconfigured his devices and so… Mikrotik sucks thread. If you’re serious about getting things to work, perhaps asking for help and following guidance would be more effective than badmouthing the product.
