I am very new to MIKROTIK and this is the first time i am using these devices..
First i am trying to design and install a HOTSPOT Internet within a Hotel & Spa that consist on 22 Buildings
and 170 000 M2
My design is as follow
1- Omni Antenna (24DB) in the roof of one building connected to kit MKBR100-1iHN AH
2- Sector antena (12DB) on each roof connected also to kit MKBR100-1iHN AH
3- All sector antenas are directed to the main OMNI (distances between 50 and 500 Meters)
4- Inside each building there is 1 or 2 WIFI Access Points (I will use KIT RB/433AHN-WKIT)
each AccssPOint should cover around 200 M2 and maximum 50 users connected…
5- Access Points inside the buildings are connected along with the Roof one to a switch using RJ45 CAT5e cables.
6- Internet from ISP will be in the building that has the OMNI 24DB antenna
Now i need the following —
When a user connect to any WIFI Access Points in any building he should see one SSID name and be routed as follow
from the internal access point he should be routed to the one on the roof.. then using sector antena he will be directed to the Main omni antenna then to the server where he will get IP and LOGIN page etc…
When he login he will take another IP from ISP which will allow him to access the internet.
I am not sure if this is the perfect design..
But from my experience in CISCO and WIFI i found it correct…
Now my main question is that .. is it possible using Mikrotik devices in that i selected?
and what should be the config of Internal AP & External AP and Server..
of course not detailed config but in general how things should go
Appreciate any tip or help..
If you need any detail just let me know.
I am a Computer engineer with CISCO experience.. so i will understand your explanations
I’m not going to speak to the wireless details, but your Hotspot design is off.
Hotspots (at least the ones built into RouterOS - but it’s true for most of them) work based on MAC addresses - so that’s layer 2, and therefore the Hotspot router should be the immediate layer 3 hop for clients. Therefore you can’t route the user traffic to an aggregate router. You will either have to bridge/switch traffic to the Hotspot router, or use EoIP (quasi GRE, versions up to 4.x) or GRE (5.x) or other layer 2 tunneling technologies to get the traffic there, or run Hotspots on each AP (probably the worst solution as roaming would require users to log in again). I also don’t think you want to do extra NAT. A Hotspot is by default not going to permit any traffic to the Internet unless the user is authenticated or configured to be able to bypass authentication. There’s no need to hand out ISP IPs after login. Just NAT users out the WAN interface of the router (or just route them out and NAT later) - only authenticated users will get that far.
How the Hotspot should be configured depends on what your requirements are. Are you going to sell access (unique username/password combinations), or grant free access after agreeing to terms and conditions)? Do you want centralized AAA (RADIUS), or a local user database? Do you want the login pages to be hosted on the router or on an external web server?
1- YES need to sell access .. By day or by hour… depends on the HOtel policy..
2- Authentication page should be local on the routerboard
3- users database is local.. i can create any user and password when the client need access..
But RADIUS should be one because this user should be able to login in all the sections of the Club..using any AP
Now my question is how you suggest this could be done?
How can i provide LOGIN page and internet to user in building 1 and my ISP internet is in building 2?
should i create a cables backbone connecting the 20 buildings? or i can do that wireless ??
I saw the customize HOtspot login and it is very useful.. but i am still in early phase to use it..
My main concern is how to get all users from any building to get login page and be Nated to the internet..
Thank you again
