this is my firs post in this community, so feel free to correct my if I’m doing something wrong
I have a problem in my home network… this is the whole situation:
I have Mikrotik RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN as my main router. Some days ago I bought Linksys RE2000 which I would like to use to extend my wireless network (I would like to share my network with my neighbours).
The whole procedure should be simple (plug-in RE2000 in electric power, go to web interface, connect to my wireless, done), but for some reason this is not working
After a while I decided to try extend another wireless network (Router model: Belkin WRTR_159G_v01). I did the same thing as before (plug-in RE2000 in electric power, go to web interface, connect to my wireless, done) and all is working fine. After that I assumed that the main problem is not my RE2000, but my main router (Mikrotik RB2011UiAS-2HnD-IN).
Can someone help me to get this extender work with my router? If you need any additional information, please, feel free to ask.
Does the “extender” give any messages? What is not working, is it not connecting to the RouterBOARD, or the devices that connect to the extender can’t reach internet? Please give more info about what is not working
it seems that the extender can’t connect to RouterBOARD.
After I select (on the extender) my wireles (from RouterBOARD) the extender says that the extender is not connected to my wireless.
Maybe this can help…
I tryed to connect my old belkin router as AP to mikrotik router and than connect the extender to belkin AP and it works, but I would like to connect the extender directly to my mikrotik router wifi, without any aditional device.
Bad thing that you didn’t ask before you bought the extender. We would suggest to buy a mikrotik device and use wds mode to extend the network. It would work.
Ok. What throughout are you expecting for devices connected to the repeater? Probably the budget is also important. So why not keep it as it is if it works?
The working options is just a temporary solution, “Belkin AP” is not mine, so I need to buy a new one if I don’t connect the extender directly to “mikrotik router”. Buying a new extender or a new AP is not the problem at all, I just wanted to connect the extender directly to “mikrotik router”. I that way I would have 1 device less to manage.
When I will have a chance to connect the devices in that way as in the red options, I will post the log results, but the owner of “house 2” is not available right now.
In the meantime can I provide you any additional information?
In case I would like to have it as good as possible, I would do this: Buy two L3 devices (5GHz, like SXTLite5 or something similar better with gigabit port) and use it as bridge instead wire that you are not able to run between the houses. In the second house I would use maybe other rb2011. This would be for the case you have really fast internet access or will do the mutual file sharing between the houses (e.g. for backuping…). Use non overlapping channels of 2,4Ghz band in both houses. In this case all the wireless or wired clients in both houses get the maximum.
In case you do not have fast internet access and do not want to mutually backup files or stream HD 3D videos from your fileserver to neighbor’s TV, and you do not mind to share the same wifi channel - it means you get more interference and significantly lower connection quality of all devices around both houses - you can put your RB2011 on the window facing to second house and on the opposite window of second house put RB951Ui-2Hnd. Then establish the WDS link between, run virtual APs on both devices (can have different SSIDs and security settings on APs, but wds link have to match), in second house put all ports into bridge together with wds, on your RB2011 set dhcp, nat and everything on the bridge that have the wds link as member too. It will not provide best performance, it could make connection quality problems between some wifi devices, but in general it will work. Hope that 5-10mbit/s for internet access from the second house connected clients will be enough. None can guarantee that it will work faster.
Of course you can do something in between. Use one client device (e.g. SXTLite2) to connect directly to first AP and then set different channel for second AP. You will get less interference, higher speeds and better connection quality - but with 3 devices. And of course not so good as option 1.
First of all, if you want use repeater with 50 meters of distance and with two or more wall between, use:
2ghz-only-g as band and use one channel-width of only 20mhz
if you use wds, use only dynamic without “mesh” because this mode are compatible only between mikrotik,
dynamic only (or static) can be used by other Ubitoyz or TP-toyz vendors.
set ht chain both to 0 and 1
do not use frequency-mode=superchannel because this cause incomppatibility if you set some wrong frequency
I not see frequency on export, if you set country=slovenia , check if the repeater work on same frequency…
For the best compatibilty mode, use only uppercase A..Z, 0..9 and the “-” minus symbol on SSID name. Do not use lowercase letters, special characters or space.
DISABLE TKIP if you use WPA2-PSK, use only aes-ccm
