Connection to wifi

RouterOS General
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Hi!
So, I’m trying to establish a wireless connection between my hAP lite and my home wifi in order to connect devices to hAP’s ethernet ports. I tried the following steps:
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Connect_to_an_Available_Wireless_Network
without any success. I used both the browser interface at 192.168.88.1 and a standalone WinBox v3.27.
Setup: hAP lite RB941-2nD / RouterOs v6.45.8
Any insight or help would be much appreciated!
Cheers!

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config, logs?

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don’t ask soo much… :))

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don’t ask soo much… :))

Wireless “Registration table” . Is there a wifi connection active … or not ?

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Try the steps below. They should get you connected to your the hotspot or AP you want.

Starting at factory defaults

  1. Interface->Interface list - change Wan to wlan1
    click OK
  2. Wirless->Wifi Interfaces->wlan1 - set mode = station
  • set country = your location
  • set installation = any
  • click “Apply”
  1. Bridge->Ports - delete wlan1 from bridge
  2. IP - change ether1 to wlan1
    click “Apply”
  3. Go to Quick Set
  • Click “Disconnect” button
  • Choose your AP, enter wifi password and click connect and you should be online.
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I hope to god you are not expecting any significant throughput like streaming videos gaming etc.
Basic email and browsing is a realistic expectation.

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establish a wireless connection between my hAP lite and my home wifi in order to connect devices to hAP’s ethernet ports

This is not a (half speed) repeater setup, but a simple station setup. I expect the speed to be as for any other 2S client wifi connection.
Interface rate (and 1S versus 2S) can be seen in the wireless registration.
Some panic on NAT performance. Never seen problems with that (running double or triple NAT … I use this quite often)

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How do you figure that?

The only way not to lose on throughput if he uses 2.4ghz to connect the two devices and then tx locally on 5ghz or vice versa.
In either case one is limited right away by the 2ghz throughput. Depending upon walls and expectations that will fall further.
You are so optimistic ole man. :wink:

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Always optimistic :slight_smile: , but this was what I did read in OP’s request … “in order to connect devices to hAP’s ethernet ports” . OP might think something else, but the text was “wifi uplink, ethernet downlink”. So I only commented based on that information. Using “station” here is only one of the possibilities. (Troublesome “station pseudo bridge” for avoiding the NAT and being accessible from the rest of the LAN , is a known slippery slope (eg problems with DHCP requests)).

hAP Lite is a €20 device with only 2.4GHz WLAN and 100 Mbps interfaces. 2.4GHz is indeed the bottleneck as we all know, but with 2S connection and 144Mbps interface rate it will perform well for a 50/60 Mbps ISP connection. Streaming video’s starts at 5Mbps. (I only have 50 Mbps from my ISP, and they are my bottleneck, even if I go through the hAP-Lite, dual NAT)