Any news on when we might expect WPA?
Thank you.
not soon, if ever?
Is there a reason for this not being on the roadmap?
I would have thought it will stop MT being used in quite a few customer applications/markets.
Regards
Stephen
From my point of view wpa is useless…
On every point, I have real AP for ap and mikrotik for p2p links and routing…
what’s a real ap? is MT surreal? 
I mean hardware AP, not made with atheros/prism card…
believe it or not, they all have the same stuff inside them …
But I think the point Stephen made (or at least tried to 
) was that if you want to use MikroTik RouterOS to create APs, the lack of WPA will lead to situations where the customers will look for another solution, as this is “industry standard functionality”.
Think of WPA what you want, but customers are reading magazines telling them not to buy anything that can’t do WPA. A bit overemphasized in my statement here, but the lack of prominent features does create problems…
Thanks Christian, that’s amplified exactly the point I was trying to make.
Consumers will still buy cheap APs from Taiwan which have WPA, MT-solutions won’t compete with them on price.
But when we want to provide high quality managed service products (i.e. not cheap commodity APs) to our customers here in Europe, such as telecom providers and large corporates they still want features like WPA.
Often in these cases it’s a “check-box” problem rather than real - if the product doesn’t have it, they are put off - even if they don’t use.
However I think WPA is a real issue.
Regards
As I remember, WPA2 is in the works for v2.9 – but I will have to check on it next week. We are also working on 802.11i (or at least the features that can be easily used and are most needed).
John
This begs the question: When will 2.9 drop its BETA suffix?
Is this estimate of 5 more weeks from now still valid?
http://www.mikrotik.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1603
Thank you.
i`d like to second the request. WPA and 802.11i are important for the market and often asked for.
regards.
matthias
eh.. if you want to secure a wireless link why would you use WPA?
Mikrotik has the capability of being a VPN server.. Why not tunnel the traffic through a PPTP server and encrypt it at a much higher level than WPA/WEP would offer?
Hey no doubt that’s a technically very viable solution, and one we’d probably advise customers to consider implementing.
but at “point of decision making” if the end user is to see expecting WPA as an option, one that the industry sees as “normal” and available on $99 APs, then doesn’t look good to have it missing from such an excellent wireless router.
Not a problem if you are using MT to provide services, but a big “ouch” if trying to sell MT-powered products I guess …
Regards
Stephen
exactly!