It would be helpful if the configuration allowed channels to be separated by frequency bands—2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and in the future 6 GHz. This would eliminate the need to create multiple configuration profiles for different frequency bands. Here is a image of how I would imagine it.
Edit: It would brake existing environments, so its now discarded but something like that would help when you have several Wifi Configs.
Hmm. You might not be making the best of what you have. I don’t need multiple configuration profiles for different frequency bands. I have just the 1 for each frequency band.
I am configured using CAPsMAN from my router which has no wireless to an Access Point. This is using the wifi-qcom and wifi-qcom-ac packages. My wireless configs are on the AccessPoint at [WiFi → Radios] in WebFig. I have a House network and a Guest network both running a single SSID on 2GHz and 5GHz and I have 1 configuration for each of the House network and the Guest network, neither of which has any wireless config. I am not sure how to configure wireless without CAPsMAN these days, but I think that if I were to configure a standalone router with wireless, I would just use CAPsMAN.
Useful Mikrotik video on how to do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37aff6d14Xk
It's already possible to mix channels for all bands into single /interface/wifi/channel profile. What is not currently possible is having specific settings for each of frequency bands (e.g. having width=20mhz for 2.4GHz band while having width=20/40/80mhz for 5GHz band). But adding that it would require introducing new property entries, possibly specific to frequency band ... which would break many of current setups. And all that just to avoid having somehow specific provisioning rules ...
So IMO that would not be in the spirit of ROS: extremely versatile environment but demanding certain level of proficiency from administrator ... compared to user-friendly environments with more or less limited versatility of other vendors. Personally I always choose versatility over user-friendliness.
I know it just gets extremely confusing when you have to broadcast several different networks and have to create a separate configuration profile for 5GHz and 2.4GHz (since we have band-specific settings) each time. It would be helpful to reduce errors. It could be as simple as selecting two channel configurations in the Channels tab and letting the WiFi modules decide for themselves, or you have to specify it in the configuration. I don't think that existing environments would then need to be reconfigured.
Grouping the configuration in the GUI/Winbox would also be helpful when the options named don’t work.
