I have a new wAP ax that I am trying to set up to bridge to an existing non-wireless router. It appears that much of the information that search returns seems to apply to older versions of Winbox. One hitch I have encountered is that my plan was to use LAN1 and power it from a POE port on my route…

Read this first: [image] wAP ax Access Pts ship with ether1 unbridged by default Beginner Basics Hello, Wanted to bring up something I ran into after unboxing my new APs (wAP ax wAPG-5HaxD2HaxD) yesterday. Got them to pair with my L009, however these do not w…

I had the same confusion when I first used a wAP ax. The trick is not to touch too many defaults. Just create one bridge, add both WLAN and LAN1 to it, and make that bridge the main interface with a DHCP client. LAN1 will still take POE fine. The only reason it fails is usually if it’s still bound t…

What I don’t understand is why Mikrotik ships their APs configured as routers… They should come preconfigured as plain APs so they work OOTB.

This config works on ether2. Adding ether1 to bridge seems to work but the Quick Set screen IP area seems unhappy assuming that red stuff denotes unhappiness. I have included a config file as well as a screen shot of the red field. While I am probably getting way ahead of my self, is there a way to…

@gigabyte091 The WaP Ax is intended mainly for: countryside getaway rural gas station bus stop where a router/Ap would make sense. @RonK You should have (only snippets of the relevant parts): /interface bridge port add bridge=bridge comment=myconf interface ether1 add bridge=bridge commen…

@jaclaz I agree, there are use cases where that configuration make sense, BUT then you have people that buys them thinking it’s just an AP and then they have a problem :slight_smile: Also Mikrotik sets this default configuration on almost, if not on all, APs they sell. Make no sense to me TBH.

I changed the rsc per the above and it works though WinBox is still unhappy about the lack of a gateway IP. That caused me to have to find another way to enter the wifi password because APPLY would barf. Is there some way to fix that? Here is the current exported config just in case I missed somet…

# 2025-09-28 09:38:48 by RouterOS 7.20 # software id = UHY7-ILKR # # model = wAPG-5HaxD2HaxD # serial number = HJH0AN9TZZY /interface bridge add admin-mac=04:F4:1C:0B:F1:49 auto-mac=no comment=defconf name=bridge /interface wifi set [ find default-name=wifi1 ] channel.band=2ghz-ax .skip-dfs-channels…

You can remove the /ip pool and the second IP address of the bridge, get rid of the 192.168.88.1 and keep the 192.168.1.3. Very minor, but you shouldn't have modified entries tagged/commented as defconf. In your simple configuration It Is not a problem, but if there are tens of lines tagged as defc…

This is what I mean by unhappy. When I tried to change the network name or wifi password (also located on that page) it flags the missing gateway as an error and won’t save anything. [Unhappy]

Setting up wAP ax to bridge to existing network

RouterOS Wireless Networking

jaclaz October 9, 2025, 2:45pm 12

How (EXACTLY) do you get to that Winbox dialog?
Not through Quickset, I hope.

Rule #4, JFYI:

Hint:
in Winbox try looking under "wifi" for pages where to change SSID and password.