Could someone please share list of channels for EU that work on WiFi devies / MTik?
I have channels from:
36-64
100-165
But I see on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels#5.0_GHz_(802.11j)_WLAN that channels 32-34 and 169-173 are also allowed to be used indoors.
However, on my iMac these channels seem not available for use on AirPort.
So what is the actuality with these channels? Yay or nay?
Certification for the country can be found in the Mikrotik. ETSI is overall Europe.
/interface wireless info> country-info etsi
ranges: 2402-2482/b,g,gn20,gn40(20dBm)
5170-5250/a,an20,an40,ac20,ac40,ac80,ac160,ac80+80(23dBm)/passive,indoor
5170-5330/a,an20,an40,ac20,ac40,ac80,ac160,ac80+80(20dBm)/dfs,passive,indoor
5250-5330/a,an20,an40,ac20,ac40,ac80,ac160,ac80+80(20dBm)/dfs,passive,indoor
5490-5710/a,an20,an40,ac20,ac40,ac80,ac160,ac80+80(27dBm)/dfs,passive
5190-5310/a-turbo(20dBm)/dfs
5180-5300/a-turbo(20dBm)/dfs
5520-5680/a-turbo(27dBm)/dfs,passive
5510-5670/a-turbo(27dBm)/dfs,passive
902-927/b,g,g-turbo,gn20,gn40(30dBm)
/interface wireless info> country-list
Which means I can’t use CH144-CH165 at all? I don’t get it.
On Wikipedia I have listed channels from CH144-CH173 as valid??
Not only iMac… A lot of client don’t support all allowed 5Ghz frequency. If you have some of them on your network then you have to exclude some frequency.
You should read the full reference link in the Wikipedia. SRD (Short Range Devices) only for Europe! See the [42] reference there. It’s complicated to find the relevant information. !
A more readable text is something like this: https://www.cablefree.net/wirelesstechnology/wireless-lan/wlan-frequency-bands-channels/
FCC (USA, Canada) do use the 149-165 channels, and they are preferred there because they are non-DFS.
In fact it is more complicated in Europe. Europe does a regulation and the european countries have to translate it into their local rules. So rules differ. You have to look into regulations for each country to see what is allowed. So your country might allow addtional frequencies or modify ETSI rules to some extent. Countries differ much in enforcing the policies.
Fill in the country instead of ETSI if you want to check in MKT. But with “CE Marking” and the current “EC Declaration of conformity 2014/53/EU” I do not expect much exceptions in the Mikrotik devices. (That declaration is at the end of the “Quick Guide” under “Support&Downloads” of every device.)
United Kingdom is different.
Certification for the other frequencies is asked for in the forums of other brand devices as well.
I gave this some thought and in essence channels 144-165 should really be not used for quite a while now, simply because old devices do not support them. I just checked on my old Early 2011 MacBook Pro and indeed, these channels are no go.
I prepared full list of WiFi channels, 2 and 5 GHz, and auto lists for both. I usually set 2 GHz manually, as auto algorithm is stupid, but on 5 GHz it does a good job, as there are more channels to choose from.
/caps-man channel
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2412 name=CH1
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2417 name=CH2
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2422 name=CH3
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2427 name=CH4
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2432 name=CH5
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2437 name=CH6
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2442 name=CH7
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2447 name=CH8
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2452 name=CH9
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2457 name=CH10
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2462 name=CH11
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2467 name=CH12
add band=2ghz-b/g/n frequency=2472 name=CH13
add frequency=2412,2432,2452,2472 name="2Ghz AUTO (1, 5, 9, 13)"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5180 name=CH36-indoor
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5200 name=CH40-indoor
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5220 name=CH44-indoor
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5240 name=CH48-indoor
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5260 name="CH52-indoor DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5280 name="CH56-indoor DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5300 name="CH60-indoor DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5320 name="CH64-indoor DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5500 name="CH100 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5520 name="CH104 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5540 name="CH108 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5560 name="CH112 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5580 name="CH116 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5600 name="CH120 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5620 name="CH124 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5640 name="CH128 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5660 name="CH132 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5680 name="CH136 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5700 name="CH140 DFS"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5720 name="CH144 DFS XX"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5745 name="CH149 XX"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5765 name="CH153 XX"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5785 name="CH157 XX"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5805 name="CH161 XX"
add band=5ghz-a/n/ac frequency=5825 name="CH165 XX"
add frequency=5180,5200,5220,5240,5260,5280,5300,5320,5500,5520,5540,5560,5580,5600,5620,5640,5660,5680,5700,5720,5745,5765,5785,5805,5825 name="5GHz AUTO XX"
add comment="USE THIS LIST" frequency=5180,5200,5220,5240,5260,5280,5300,5320,5500,5520,5540,5560,5580,5600,5620,5640,5660,5680,5700 name="5GHz AUTO ETSI"
add frequency=5500,5520,5540,5560,5580,5600,5620,5640,5660,5680,5700,5745,5765,5785,5805,5825 name="5GHz AUTO EXTERAL"
add frequency=5180,5200,5220,5240,5260,5280,5300,5320 name="5GHz AUTO INDOOR"
*XX is a mark to know that those channels are extension from previous standard.
For the 5 GHz band:
Indoor frequencies is “indoors only - not allowed outdoors”.
Outdoor frequency is allowed outdoors and indoors. So indoor should include the external frequencies as well.
Mikrotik has it set to strict “indoor only” with installation set to “indoor” in RouterOS. Select installation “any” to combine the 2 sets indoors, what is fully allowed and usefull.
Remember that the indoor-only frequencies are equal in FCC/ETSI, but allowed-outdoor are quite different. So setting “no_country_set” in Europe will give problems with the outdoor frequencies.
If understand you correctly, you are saying that if I select “Indoors” installation, I would not get frequencies that are to be used defined as external ones as by licensing/rule set?
Ooops, not really a problem for europe. The problem only comes when Mikrotik added “/outdoor” to the list.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/hap-ac-lite-missing-a-lot-of-channel/141489/1