wireless accessing Mikrotik: NeighborViewer YES, winbox NO..

caribou · July 16, 2006, 6:10pm

I can log onto my mikrotik hotspot router wirelessly through Neighbor viewer, but cannot via winbox. winbox detects it…after a very long wait…but when i try to log on via MAC it gives error : “router disconnected”
I get errors & unsuccessful trying to log on via IP also… could it be some kind of firewall or port issue? what port should I be trying on?..where/how to configure / allow such a port… if need be…

Mikrotik novice here…answer like I’m 5yrs old…

janisk · July 17, 2006, 4:28am

what versionare you using, maybe try to upgrade if it is not newest one

sergejs · July 17, 2006, 4:32am

Winbox uses 8291 port for 2.9 versions.
Are you able to access router via null modem (console) cable ?

caribou · July 17, 2006, 11:13am

using 2.9.27

janisk · July 17, 2006, 11:43am

if you still ahve problems, make your configuration backup and do /system reset and then try. that must be configuration problem

caribou · July 30, 2006, 9:54pm

to finish this thread, I upgraded to latest mikrotik and latest winbox and built hotspot from scratch now everything is working fine.