I need help setting up my WiFi. I have a wire dish pair and 3 mAntbox ax 15s access points.
The master dish is connected to router by Ethernet cable. The slave dish is on a tower connected to Poe switch with the 3 mAntbox ax15s access points.
Not sure how to get access points configured to be able to connect to for internet.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
the wireless wire dish should be preconfigured if it comes as a pair 
So you have something loosely like:
Router
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<ethernet cable>
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Dish1 (connected to router/ ISP)
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<wireless link> (wireless wire)
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Dish2 (pole)
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Switch
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/ | \
M M M
a a a
n n n
t t t
b b b
o o o
x x x
1 2 3
With each mantbox covering some 60° around the pole, right?
The Dishes 1 and 2 should be configured as if they were a (more or less "dumb") switch.
As well the switch connecting the three Mantboxes should be as well as "dumb" as possible.
At this point the setup - conceptually - is the same as this one:
Router
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<ethernet cable>
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Switch
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/ | \
M M M
a a a
n n n
t t t
b b b
o o o
x x x
1 2 3
So, each Mantbox should be configured as a "normal" AP (mode ap or ap-bridge, depends on which ROS version they run), which should be the default configuration they have from factory.
Of course each of them will have from factory a same IP (probably 192.168.88.1), so you have to initially configure them one at the time.
The good question would be whether to use CAPSMAN on that setup or not.
This may depend from various factors, the three Mantbox can work as CAPS, but which device would act as CAPSMAN? (I presume that the router is not a Mikrotik device)).
Are the Dish1 and Dish2 Mikrotik, and if yes, which model?
Probably the easiest would be to "elect" one of the three Mantbox as CAPSMAN and have the other two as CAPS.
All devices are mikrotik except for the switch. It is a ubiquiti edge switch 8xp.
We had to completely start over with the router and all because person that set it all up wouldn’t give us passwords to get into any of the devices that he set up 5 years ago.
We had a tower go down in a storm and destroyed everything on it so we got the new dish pair and the 3 mAntbox ax 15s access points.
Got the router all redone and the computers and voip phones working just can’t get the dish and access points set up.
I am new to mikrotik
Every (apart some switches) Mikrotik device runs RouterOS, and consequently can run CAPSMAN (a few switches can run either of SWoS or RouterOS, but - generally speaking - switches has less powerful CPU and less memory so even if they can run RouterOs they are not the best choice to run it).
Knowing the model of the "dishes" AND the Ros version would help advising on which device it would be better to run the CAPSMAN (if you want to run it).
To give you an example, a LHG 5 has a 600 Mhz CPU, 64 Mb RAM and 16 Mb storage, whilst a LHG XL 5 ax has 800 MHz CPU, 256 Mb RAM and 128 Mb storage guess which one would be more suited to run an additional program?
The Mantbox ax 15 s has the same 800 MHz CPU, 256 Mb RAM and 128 Mb storage, so probably it is the most powerful device on the chain, usually CAPSMAN is run on the router (which usually is the most powerful device) but if your router is not Mikrotik you cannot.
The mikrotik router is a ccr1009-7g-1c-1s+pc
The dishes are
RBLHGG-60adkit
Then the CCR Is the best candidate to run Capsman on.
How do I set capsman up and will it effect the phones and computer I have running on network while I set it up
In theory, no, CAPSMAN settings will only affect devices connected to the router that are in CAPS mode, but of course you might need to reboot the router a few times to test the setup.
But it is not the easiest setup possible on Mikrotik devices, if I were you I would (for learning/temporarily) use one of the Mantbox as CAPSMAN (with radios disabled) and another one as CAP, check it works, then add the third Mantbox as CAP and only once everything is working transfer the CAPSMAN settings on the CCR router and reset all three Mantboxes to CAPS mode before mounting all the stuff on the pole.