I’ve just purchased 2 mikrotik wireless device to be able to communicate between my parents’ house and my house. (as they can’t have high speed internet and no other choices are available).
So my parents home have their own lan with 192.168.1.xxx (subnet 255.255.255.0)
My parents’ computer has ip: 192.168.1.10
My home has 192.168.1.xxx (subnet 255.255.255.0)
My computer has ip: 192.168.1.11
My cable internet is connected to my router and my router’s ip is: 192.168.1.1
I have set up my wireless devices as followed:
/interface wireless set wlan1 ssid=“p2p-test” frequency=5805 band=2.4ghz-b\g mode=bridge disabled=no (on both of them).
At this point I think I had a connection between the 2 wireless devices.
So I gave the wireless device at my home IP: 192.168.1.254/24 network: 192.168.1.0 (wlan1)
And I gave the wireless device at my parents home IP: 192.168.1.252/24 network 192.168.1.0 (wlan1)
At this point I thought I was done. But it’s not working, can any of you point out what I did wrong? (I might have chosen the wrong type bridge for my wireless devices, I’m not very familiar with those…)
I think only the router end of the wireless should be a bridge or ap-bridge mode. The client side should be mode=station. According to the docs, the only difference between bridge and ap-bridge mode is the ap-bridge mode will accept more than one client (station).
/interface wireless set wlan1 ssid=“p2p-test” frequency=5805 band=2.4ghz-b\g mode=bridge disabled=no (on both of them).
the freq. 5805 if for band 5.8 GHz and not for 2.4 GHz , you should change the freq. to 24xx .
also you should put one device as AP- bridge which it is that one in your home and the other one is station . define ssid which it is the same in the two devices .
there is a question here , is your ISP accept to connect more than one pc to the internet modem ? according to your unswear i’ll complete the setting later .
with best regards .
thanks for your answers, yes my ISP allows me, as I’ve bought some bandwidth to “resell” but I’m not reselling it, as it’s my folks. Thanks for the frequency, it’s weird, cuz I bought a 900mhz, but winbox detected as a 2.4 ghz… So I thought the guy simply made a mistake and sent me a 2.4ghz instead of the 900mhz. I called him, he said, no no it’s a 900mhz I’ve just added a “converter” so it converts it to 900mhz, so I’m not even sure what the frequency should be anymore
Of course, doing this was my last resort, I’d would’ve been great for them to make the service a little further (cable company), but they said they couldn’t justify building here when they can expand elsewhere for more income.
Anyway, I’ve set the one I have home as bridge (I can’t do ap-bridge I don’t have the license for that).
Check the FAQ and Examples link above for WDS. Sounds like the easiest way to connect your parents.
Mikrotik isn’t exactly plug and play, takes a bit of work. If the FAQ doesn’t help, post back here, I’ll put the config needed for WDS here tomorrow. Too late tonight, brain is fried.
