Im new to MikroTik and this forum so i hope i placed this on the right topic!
We have a customer who does audio technology for events (mostly outside in open fields but there can be several obstacels in the way).
He came to us asking if we had a solution for the following problem /situation:
Sometimes this customer comes to places where he has his audio hardware in one place and has to be a lot further away and actually wants to be able to control his hardware (laptop) from there (he even sometimes have to move some places in a ± 100 meter range from his original setup aka the mAntbox).
The idea is to set up a offline Wi-Fi network (no internet acces) with the mAntbox 19s. We place this at his main setup and we connect his laptop to the mAntbox 19s (laptop 1). Then 100 to 150 meters further we want to connect his other laptop to the same mAntbox 19s (Laptop 2) so that he can connect via Remote Desktop from laptop 2 to laptop 1 and control it.
I have already done quite a bit of research, but it seems to me that we can attach the mAntbox 19s to a pole and connect both laptops to it, of course the length/quality of the connection will differ each location.
Do you guys see this working? How high should te mAntbox be in the air? If this works is it ok to place the mAntbox at his “main station” or should it be in between the 2 places?
If you have any tips or dont see this working just let me know!
You wanna connect 2 clients to a wireless access point and have them talk to each other using a Layer 2/3 protocol.
I don’t think I would want to connect to that WAP at 150 Meters. The radio in the laptop would likely be the issue as thats pretty far. Throw in some ugly bags of water, various hotspots, general noise…
Just some thoughts on wifi principles with directional antenna with high gain.
The transmit power in 5 GHz will be limited by the country/region regulation. That is the limit is for “radio power + antenna gain (19 dBi)”, so the radio power will be limited for this device !
The major benefit of the high antenna gain is for the received signal (+ 19dBi). The mANTBOX 19s is a very good listener. But that way it will pick up all other transmitters, strongly amplified.
There is only one transmitter at the same time on the same frequency in wifi. There could be a lot of interference or wait time for the mANTBox in its wide 120° sector
Contrary to intuition, the signal received at the laptop1 will be weak, the signal received by the mANTBox will be strong
I prefer to have the dBi gain at both ends to be somewhat equivalent, and have the transmit/receive beam as narrow as posible (to avoid pickup of unwanted transmitters)
A SXTsq5 ac (even SXT sq5 Lite) would be good, (low cost & wifi performance) as other end device (connected via ethernet to the laptop)
Other people in the area, eg with smartphones, they would still strongly interfere with this setup. But Mikrotik to Mikrotik can also use NV2.
SXTsq5 has a low price because it only is a license level 3 device , and therefore cannot act as AP with multiple clients.
Not the case here, the SXTsq5 can just be the client (station-bridge mode), with the mANTbox in (AP-bridge mode)
If only the 2 laptops are using wifi in this connection, I would use 2 SXTsq5 for that link. If budget allows, and there is free line of sight, “wireless wire” with 2 CUBE 60 would be better.
Were there is a switch 60GHZ client and access point in a portable box with a pole. The 2 radios could sit on the pole and be extended above the crowd… then spin the 60Ghz to point back at the tower.