Hello! New to Mikrotik and we purchased 3 access points. I searched for documentation and found a document on how to set up a wireless bridge. It worked flawlessly and I have it ready to connect the main office to Warehouse A. However, considering terrain constraints, we need to bounce the signal from Warehouse A around to Warehouse B so Warehouse A can be forward traffic back and forth for Warehouse B.
I’ve contacted mikrotik support but I’m getting one sentence responses and nothing clear. If someone here could advise or knows of a document that could help set this up, I’d appreciate it!
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I was wondering if the below configuration was possible. We
were looking to set the SXT SA5 ac up at the main office where the
internet is supplied. Then set up a SXT 5 ac to the warehouse A that
is adjacent to it. Since there is trees and interference directly
from the main office and Warehouse B (at the south point), we’ll
need to collect the signal at WareHouse A for the users there and also bounce it over to Warehouse 2 as the below picture shows.
From what I can see this is possible, but is there a specific document that outlines how to
do this and could you help guide on which mode or configuration
needs to be done to achieve this?
I found this documentation (https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Bridging_Networks_with_SXT) and the wireless bridge between Main Office and Warehouse A works, but not having luck getting Warehouse A to forward the signal so Warehouse B can get access as well.
Thank you
Google Maps overview:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwOEoTdSo_LKWkJmZC1RQjJyem8/view?usp=sharing
So wireless operates as a station or as an access point. You need two distinct links. From you main building to the first warehouse then the first warehouse to the second warehouse. You can do that with a single SXT and virtual AP interfaces or two units at the middle or first warehouse.
The SXT units you have are 16 dBi I believe. You’d have to be certain one unit on the first warehouse can “see” RF wise both the unit on the main building and the second warehouse. Alternatively, have 2 units on the first warehouse. The first acts as a station to the main building and the second acts as an AP that the second warehouse connects to.
If you can “see” the main and second warehouse from the first warehouse with a single unit than you can leverage repeater setup to share that one unit. That said, when acting as a repeater you cut your available speed or bandwidth in half because the sing radio in the SXT can only “talk” to either the main building or to the second building. At the price point of the SXT it’s probably better to just have two. Separate them a bit since you have a nice big warehouse to ensure you don’t see any interference.
Thanks, that helped a lot!
In the modes I don’t see an option for repeater. I see Bridge, AP, AP bridge, Station, station bridge, pseudostation bridge, etc.
Although I think I’ll go with the other option and just set two wireless bridges up so I’m not halving anything. Although in case the powers that be don’t go for it, do you know of any documentation to set up an AP as a repeater or to bridge two APs like I’d potentially like to do? I could only find the basic wireless bridge document.
Thanks again
The SXT AC has a ~28° antenna I believe. Not sure if you’d be able to position a single middle radio in a way that it could send a signal to each of the other buildings.