Hello, I set up my Mikrotik Cube devices as station and stationbridge. My goal is to transmit my main internet source to the receiver Cube device in the building across the street, connect that device to a router, and distribute the internet to that apartment. Both Cube devices see each other in this configuration. The RX and TX values are active. However, for some reason, my router is not receiving the internet from the receiver cube. I am using a Xiaomi router. What should I do? I'm just a basic user; I just want to provide internet to the other apartment, that's all. Thanks.
Well, no.
One device should be bridge (or ap-bridge) and the other station-bridge.
The Cubes when bought in pairs have already a working configuration that only needs to be tweaked/personalized.
An example of such configuration is posted here:
On the receiving (station-bridge) side you normally do not connect a router, but rather a switch (or a router configured as switch.
Post the configurations of both your cubes, instructions here:
and a schematics of your network (a picture of a hand drawn sketch is enough), but likely the issue is in the way you are setting up your Xiaomi router.
Try connecting via ethernet a PC on the station-bridge side directly to the cube.
OK, the Cubes see each other. I will take that to mean that you can ping between Cubes Can a Near PC see the Far Cube? Can a Far PC see the Near Cube? Can you ping between PCs connected to Near and Far Cubes? If you can do all of that, the next step is to try accessing the internet from a PC connected to the Far Cube.
Don't bother with the Xaomi router at this stage, it just confuses the issue. Once you can access the internet across the Cubes, as stated by @jaclaz, the Xaomi should be used as a switch. It would also be helpful to know if the Far connection is connected to the Near network as a Layer 2 extension or as a guest network.
Yes, Near PC can see the Far Cube and Far PC can see the Near Cube. But when i try to connect Cubes to the directly PC via ethernet, internet does not come.
First of all, my mistake was that the devices were already set to bridge and station-bridge. Even if I connect my computer directly to the station-bridge device via ethernet (there is a microtik poe in between), I still cannot connect to Internet.
about schematics;
Router - MicroTik PoE - Ethernet Cable - Transmitter Devices - 50m range - Receiver Devices - Ethernet Cable - MicroTik PoE - Router
But if you don't post your configurations, and a more complete description on your setup
there is no way to provide suggestions to correct them.
In theory a couple of Cubes form a "Wireless Wire", if they (and the networks on either sides of them) are properly configured they should behave EXACTLY as two two-ports switches were connected with an ethernet cable.
I.e:
network<->ethernet<->two_ports_switch<->ethernet<->two_ports_switch<->network
=
network<->ethernet<->CubePro<->wireless_60GHz/5GHz<->Cube_Pro<->network
If you can see from one Cube the other one and viceversa the "wireless wire" link between the two devices is working correctly, and - unless you changed the default configuration - the Cubes have by default the ethernet port and the bonding interface added to a bridge, so they behave as a two_port_switch, this is why I suspect that there may be something "amiss" in the network configuration.
I think you need to do
PC1 - MicroTik PoE - Ethernet Cable - Transmitter Devices - 50m range - Receiver Devices - Ethernet Cable - MicroTik PoE - PC2
and ping between them. If you can do that, it will show that as @jaclaz suggests you have the Cubes working and operating as a switch with 2 ports 50m apart. If you can do that, then we can look at this as being a basic network problem outside of the cubes.