hap ax^2 config

Hello
On my hap ax^2 router, in QuickConfig there is only the option for Home AP Dual

However, on my hap ac^2 router there areseveral more options:
CPE
PTP Bridge AP
PTP Bridge CPE
WISP AP
Home AP Dual
Home Mesh
CAP

How can I configure the ax^2 router to also have these options too ?

Both routers are updated to 7.13

There are two distinct wireless driver packs: legacy “wireless” which supports older wirrless chipsets up to and including ac. And the new wifi (wifi-qcom and wifi-qcom-ac) which supports newer wireless chipsets from ac and upwards. The feature set of legacy is way more rich, wifi offers fewer features but much better performance. Some features are still coming to new wifi platform. But these are largely incompatible when wireless link peers run different generation of wireless.
If you decide to repkace wireless package on your hAP ac2, then the list of QuickSet profiles will be equally short on both your devices (but you’ll be able to configure both in exactly the same way). You’ll be able to provision both using CAPsMAN (run it on ax2) and roaming experience will becone stelar compared to what you get now.

When it comes to QuickSet profiles: yes, support should be better (one is sorely missing on both: AP-switch), but since features are being actively added on wifi platform, I guess that (at least some) QuickSet profiles will follow. Many of configurations, created by those profiles, are already possible, but they require painful manual config.

Let’s not exaggerate too much :laughing:
Once you’ve done it a couple of times, it’s not that hard to do.

Well, comparing to “point and click” of QuickSet it’s definitely painful. But you’re right, us masochists like to suffer a bit :wink:

I prefer the painful masochistic method where I know exactly what is happening over the Quickset way where it’s usually guessing what else has been changed without anyone knowing.

Besides, Quickset is “touch once, never again or reset first”.

I knew you guys belonged to the same wifi masochist club!
Just waiting for the updated User article on how to setup vlans with new wifi and capsman… ???

OK, here’s the start of new and improved guide to wifi and capsman:

Open QuickSet and select “capsman and home dual AP” …

Oh, there is no such profile … man! this pain feels so good :laughing:

Ahh so MT configuration is your hobby, full time clown '=P

Having wifi-qcom installed, I do not see the CAPsMAN option anywhere

Is there anything that needs to be done to be able to access it ?


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If only there was some sort of help page… :smiley:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/WiFi#WiFi-WiFiCAPsMAN

It’s under wifi main menu …

For my hap ac^2 router should I install wifi-qcom or wifi-qcom-ac package in order to have CAPsMAN with seamless migration ?

The naming convention might have hinted on this: wifi-qcom**-ac** for ac devices.

I thought so myself, but I just wanted to get an advice from someone more knowledgeable in the MikroTik "subject"

Thank you for your advice

In the screenshot I posted you can see that there is no arrow (or triangle) to the right side of the WiFi main menu

There isn’t because capsman is a tab on window which opens after clicking the wifi menu item.

I wonder why you’re do stubbornly avoiding to look into the menu item I mentioned? Even if I’m wrong, simply opening it won’t kill you or make your device vulnerable …

Of course I did try to open it.
But nothing opens there.

You can see it on video here:
https://youtu.be/JsZSVUkqOBY

Maybe he doesn’t trust a cat wielding a chainsaw… '=P

It’s already open. But not all tabs are shown, click on those three dots on the right-most “tab”.

And why would be a fire-breathing donkey be any better? :stuck_out_tongue:

Perhaps that cat is using his chainsaw to modernize the computer by cutting in thin slices? Blade computing is newer than desktop PC stuff … fire-breathing is still fire breathing.