Creating a wired bridge with a wsAP ac lite

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi,
I currently have a hEX S as my main router and a wsAP ac lite, in the same room, to provide wireless access. The wsAP is set up, wrongly I now think, as a router. It is configured such that the devices connected to it are able to connect to the Internet, enabling both streaming and surfing.

If I connect to the device using the Mikrotik app, however, it tells me that the internet is inaccessible and this seems to be stopping me updating the software on the device.

Reading around I now think that I should have set this device up as a bridge and that is what I would like to achieve now.

The device is connected by Cat6 cable to the main router, which has no wireless capability, and gets its power down the same cable. There are two devices connected to its other ethernet ports, a smart tv and DVD box.

I would be grateful for a list of the various steps I shall need to take to achieve the goal. I am not entirely clueless with regard to routerOS but I only very rarely need to tinker with it, so it would be best to assume ignorance on my part when describing such steps.

Thanks, in anticipation, for any help.

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Well, start by posting your current configuration of the wsAC lite, follow this post instructions:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/forum-rules/173010/1

It would be “unusual” that you have it configured “as router” (unless someone fiddled with it) as the common configuration for Access Points is a simple bridge joining together wired and wireless, maybe you have only some setting to be corrected, like a miissing route/gateway for the internet or something similar.

It could also be some setting on the Hex S (as “main” router) that is preventing the AP to connect to the internet, so it might be needed also the Hex S configuration, but let’s start with the wsAP one..

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Thanks for your response. I have now resolved my issue and it is working as desired. For some reason there was a dhcp server configured on the bridge, with a different root address from the hEX S. I reset the device, configured it as a bridge and all worked fine.
Thanks again