Hi
I am helping my parents build an internal network on their farm in Patagonia, in order to distribute internet to different sectors and install different cameras and network controlled devices.
Since I've never configured mikrotik devices for anything bigger than a soho, I'd like to ask for some help from you.
In the attached sketch you'll find an outline of what we have, but basically we built a 36m tower next to our house. On said tower we installed a dynadish 5 which connects to another dynadish we installed on another tower in the closest town to provide internet. The only installations we have in the town are a media converter (from the ISP), poe injector and the dynadish.
In the same tower on the farm we currently have an LHG 5 (which I want to replace for an omnitik) connected to another LHG 5 5300m away, providing internet there. The replacement for an omnitik is because we want to have several internet connections throughout the farm, and the only long link is that 5.3km one, which according to link.ui.com could be realized without any problems at a -67dB signal level. Other links are mostly shorter than 2km and the maximum throughput will never exceed 50Mbit/s
At the house I have a hAP ac lite with an ethernet cable coming from the dynadish in the tower, and an ethernet cable going to the LHG (which I want to replace with the omnitik). It acts as a router and although mine, both dynadishes are out of our network. I'd really like them to be inside though.
At the remote sites, every device works as an edge bridge/switch/dumb AP, the only router + DHCP server being the hAP ac lite at the house.
So, here come the problems:
At the "remote" location ethernet devices work wonderfully, computers and windows phone connect fine, but android devices start a never ending loop of connecting, obtaining IP Address, disconnected, connecting and so forth (changing state several times per second). How can I fix this, if I've already implemented the "set as edge connection" configuration?
How should I configure the network if I want to have everything within the farm to be in the same VLAN? We want to place cameras and controllers all around.
How can I get both dynadishes inside my network (for configuration and stuff) if the internet connection is provided as a pppoe client configured in the house's hAP lite?
Can I install a dumb non manageable poe switch at the tower's base connecting the dynadish, omnitik and hAP lite together? The current ethernet cables are about 60m long and although they work fine, the segments climbing the tower are starting to get sunburnt (bad quality cable sold as good...) and changing 30m of underground cable + 36m of tower cable isn't really practical, but since we operate on battery power I'd like to keep component count and power output to the bare minimum.
Thank you very much
Kind regards,
Willy