Hey guys,
I've been testing out the "mANTBox ax 15s" recently. Super cool and solid device from a hardware perspective. But I'm struggling with the radio side of things:
One usecase I have for it is to provide WiFi coverage to a large indoor venue. When I set the device up in the correct regulatory domain in my case "Switzerland" and set its installation location to "indoor" it refuses to take the U-NII-1 channels. These can be used with up to 200mW E.I.R.P indoors according to our offical regulatory body information: https://www.ofcomnet.ch/api/RIR/1010/05
I have found out by looking through the forum that the allowed modes can be displayed with this command:
[admin@FOHAP] > /interface/wifi/radio/reg-info country="Switzerland" number=0
ranges: 2402-2482/20dBm/40MHz
5490-5730/30dBm/160MHz/dfs
This shows that for Switzerland this device is not allowed to use the U-NII-1 channels no matter what installation location is chosen. I don't think this is correct.
And yess I can get the setup to work if i chose for example "United Kingdom" as the regulatory domain, but thats not the point.
[admin@FOHAP] > /interface/wifi/radio/reg-info country="United Kingdom" number=0
ranges: 2402-2482/20dBm/40MHz
5170-5250/23dBm/160MHz/indoor
5250-5330/23dBm/160MHz/indoor/dfs
5490-5730/30dBm/160MHz/dfs
5725-5830/23dBm/80MHz/indoor
Compared to older 802.11ac devices like the "Metal 52 ac" that used the "Wireless" menu instead of to the "WiFi" menu, there are as far as I know no longer regulatory overrides to allow full installer controll over frequencies, tx power etc. So setting things manually is unfortunately also no longer an option to get my setup to work.
Full config export for reference:
# 2026-05-19 06:15:22 by RouterOS 7.21.4
# software id = YIJN-N6F7
#
# model = L22UGS-5HaxD2HaxD
# serial number = ***********
/interface bridge
add name=bridge1
/interface wifi
# no available channels
set [ find default-name=wifi2 ] channel.band=5ghz-ax .frequency=5180 .width=20mhz configuration.country=Switzerland .installation=indoor .mode=ap .ssid=RF5 disabled=no \
security.authentication-types=wpa2-psk,wpa3-psk .encryption=ccmp,gcmp,ccmp-256,gcmp-256 .group-encryption=ccmp
/ip smb
set enabled=no
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether1
add bridge=bridge1 interface=sfp1
add bridge=bridge1 interface=wifi1
add bridge=bridge1 interface=wifi2
/ip neighbor discovery-settings
set protocol=lldp,mndp
/ip dhcp-client
add interface=bridge1
/ip service
set ftp disabled=yes
set ssh disabled=yes
set telnet disabled=yes
set www disabled=yes
set api disabled=yes
set api-ssl disabled=yes
/system clock
set time-zone-name=Europe/Zurich
/system identity
set name=FOHAP
/system package update
set channel=long-term
/tool bandwidth-server
set enabled=no