I’ve one little subnet of 10 clients - all Mikrotik - on which it would be really nice to run nstream.
Only I can’t. One - just one -of the CPE’s is a Crossroads which won’t let me ‘change the interface’ because the country code is locked or some such banality.
Why Mikrotik would ever do anything as asinine as locking part of the configuration defeats me - especially here in New Zealand where we have 13 2.4GHz channels legally, and why that lockout should prevent the implimentation of a Mikrotik OEM protocol is asinine squared.
This on top of the discovery today that the smart little indoor enclosure for the RB433 comes with a wingnut on the ground bolt which gets in the way of two of the four bulkhead antenna slots - and the third of the four slots can’t be used if you have a card in the lower slot of the board. Oh, and you can’t use a card with an MMCX connector in the top slot as there isn’t room and you can only use an MMCX connector in the middle slot if you stick a bit of insulating tape over it to stop it shorting out on the case. And while you’re about it it’s a really, really good idea to put something electically inert between any cards in adjacent slots as they are very likely to make contact.
But hey, it looks nice and that’s what really matters.
So I have to visit the customer’s home, climb on the roof, remove the CPE, climb down again, conduct surgery on the CPE on the client’s kitchen table, reconfigure it, climb back onto the client’s roof, re-install the CPE, realign it and hope it all works. Oh, and drive home again.
Who should I bill for all this, Normis? Mikrotik or the customer?
This is a very old product, I don’t think we had any distributors in your region when it was sold. So you probably bought the US market version from somebody.
You have to do that before you install it. The device is sold as locked to FCC regulations. If you wish to overcome those limitations, you need to know beforehand, which frequencies you will use.
Yes, it’s a very old product and yet still doing the job it was purchased for which I would have thought Mikrotik would be proud of.
There was no indication when I bought it that it was locked, and as I was still new to Mikrotik (but had chosen to adopt Mikrotik for all network hardware because of its reputation) it never occured to me that an official supplier wouldn’t warn me of limitations.
I challenge anyone to know what frequencies they might want to use four years down the track.
In any case I don’t want to change the frequency. I want to use nstream and turn down the Tx volume as this station is 10dB higher than everyone else on the network, but this bl**dy lock-out prevents me from doing both. What the hell does FCC regulations have with using or not using nstream, or changing the TX power?
Nothing! No such things are locked. Your original question is misleading, you are only talking about something being locked, and as the only things that are locked, are some non-US frequencies, that’s what I assumed you faced.
So if you can’t use Nstreeme, clarify the problem in detail instead of blaming it on some lockout.
OK. When I tick the ‘nstream’ box in the nstream tab on Interface and try to apply it I get:
“RouterOS Winbox error. Couldn’t change interface - not allowed to change country (6) [OK]”
I get exactly the same message when I try to change the Tx power manually and when I try to set “New Zealand” as the regulatory domain in the ‘wireless tab’.
I can’t change the country on CR unless they’ve been netinstalled. I have used Nstreme with them, with an automated script to change the channel width and nstreme settings no less.