I am contempalting using a number of 411 Mikrotik routers which come recommeded. I have aquired one to experiment with but I can’t get to do anything. It doesn’t see any local networks. I can’t find any clear instructions on setting these up. I would like to know the full proceedure to set them up to an access point. There seems to be a license key required. Where do I get the key?
Can anyone help please.
Rob.
A license key should be already preinstalled in your device.
How far are you? Did you connect to it with serial cable or Winbox? have you seen the documentation?
http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/
If RouterOS is installed - and I assume it is - the router board probably came with the RoterOS preinstalled. Connect your PC directly to the router using a LAN cable. Launch winbox and at the “connect to” click on the “…” tab and wait a second and wait a second. Then you should see a mac address. click on the mac address and use this address to connect to the router.
As nothing has been setup in the router yet, your PC will not will not connect to the router using an IP address.
rgs Pilgrim
PS. Default login is Admin - no password
Hi.
From the very beggining can you explain how I get this device working. I’m new to this type of Router.
I connect the device to my lap top. Boot it up. Open Winbox. What now?
I’m told that once plugged in this device should detect every wireless system in the nieghborhood. Is this correct?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Rob.
Hi.
I’ve connected the device to my lap top. I’ve opened Winbox. The device has been found. What’s next please.
Your assistance appreciated.
Rob.
The router can’t do anything from scratch. You need to do a setup up first. It’s not like a normal consumer router, that is preconfigured from the factory. However setting up 411 as a simpel AP is easy. But to tell you the whole process step by step is not possible here I think. Download enclosed zip - the included exe file is a short desktop recording that I hope will get you started. The concept is simply to put Ether1 and Wlan1 in a bridge and a assign a dhcp client to ether1. Connecting ether1 to your lan and the wireless clients will connect to Wlan1 and have acces to your LAN through the brigde. I may have made a mistake or two in the recording, but I hope it will get you going.
rgs Pilgrim
how to 411 Simple AP.zip (730 KB)
at least read the replies, that’s not too hard!
Hi thanks for the info pilgrum and normis will check it out im in the same boat but im getting better at what i need to know.