A few weeks ago, we spent lovely holidays in France. My strategy to provide internet connectivity to the family as quick as possible is a typical “travel router” approach:
- connect a MikroTik wlan router to the wifi of the vacation home [2.4 GHz Band, MikroTik in station mode]
- Let the MikroTik router provide an AP on the 5 GHz Band for the devices of the family
This time, I had a brand new hAP ax2 with me, but was unable to connect to the wifi of the vacation home.
A little bit of investigation revealed the “special thing” about the wifi there: it used the already longtime deprecated WPA-PSK w/ TKIP for encryption.
Sidenote: Holidays were saved by using a hAP ac2, which had no problems connecting to the ancient wifi.
This weekend I had a some time to do the following experiment:
- Linksys WRT54GL w/ OpenWRT 10.03.1 acting as “The vacation home in France”: AP 802.11b+g, wireless security WPA-PSK, cipher: TKIP
Observations:
- hAP ax2, RouterOS 7.12: unable to properly connect: DHCP client stuck at “searching”, even after setting address and gateway/routes by hand: no connection (e.g. no ping possible)
- hAP ac2, RouterOS 7.12: able to connect without problems.
- After just changing OpenWRT to use WPA2-PSK, hAP ax2 connects without problems: DHCP client working, pings working.
Is there a way to make hAP ax2 connect to those old wifis? Thx in advance for any advice.