Product recommendation

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m looking for a router that can use the wireless card as the WAN port and use that signal to provide Internet to my devices that are hard wired and also broadcast wireless to local devices. I hope I’m explaining this correctly.

There is a ISP broadcasting free wifi and I would like to receive that wifi signal and rebroadcast that to my local devices either wirelessly or through the ether ports.

Thanks in advance.


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Every device can do it (if it has radio) except rebroadcast on the same radio. Mikrotik devices cannot use one radio as client and ap simultaneously but wds is supported. If you need wifi client and also local wifi ap, look for device that can host more radios. Ask your isp if mikrotik client is good for his network. It’s not smart to mix brands, if the ap is for example ubnt you should buy the same brand. Or look at basebox2 or 5 with additional wifi card and antennas. Or use separate client and ap.

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Thanks for the recommendation. I will look at basebox2 or 5 with a Mikrotik then


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Actually separate client like sxt lite and home router like rb951ui-2hnd would be cheaper and easily manageable solution than basebox with additional card, antennas and pigtails. And you can power the client from router directly as it has poe out.

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If my wireless ISP connection has an authentication page that you must sign into before they will give you connection to the Internet how do I authenticate myself when using the Mikrotik router?

Does this make sense what I’m asking?

For example: when I connect to the free wifi from my ISP on my iPhone once you go to safari to browse the Internet you must first login then you can use the connection. So if I use the Mikrotik radio as the client to receive Internet how I authenticate the router connection? Through a web page or something??


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Has anyone tried this before?


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Can’t you authenticate from Web browser from any of your computers inside your network?

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Yes I can, once I do that does it authenticate the router and everything hard wired behind it?


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