Hi...
So I'm not great with Mikrotik stuff, and am no expert, but have been working with wifi / Networking and IT since the mid ninties...
I have two PtP links on my network
1) A 60GHz wireless wire (or whatever it's called) - That works OK with minimal configuration.
2) a 5Ghz link which is problematic
So the problematic link... DFS Radar problems, I've watched various youtube videos as to why it's there, and how to get around it, but I'm getting nowhere in solving the problem.
Initially the link would drop every every 0.5 - 2 hours, and take about 20 minutes to reconnect. The nearest 2 radars to me are both over 100km away, and my link is happy running on 3dbm, so I guess the system is detecting false positives.
So I tried everything:- changing frequency, changing country, even setting no country and selecting out of band frequencies... nothing helped... Even when I was selecting a legal configuration, the DFS system was picking up radar on different frequencies than I was using, and still dropping the connection...
Setting frequency selection and power selection to auto seemed to give be the best improvement (the drop outs are at similar intervals, but it reconnects within 1 minute)
SO...
I bit the bullet and did a firmware upgrade! Expecting problems... ...and I got them...
So now the link seems stable (well the ping has only been running an hour, so it could still drop out), but I can't reconnect to the radios through winbox... They don't show up in the Neighbours tab, and manually entering their IP or mac address still gives me a "could not connect" error.
But no problem pinging both ends of the bridge from the same PC.
Winbox doesn't see an upgrade available (it's on 3.35), it's running under wine on Linux (I don't have a windows PC here), but it was working fine before the firmware upgrade (the winbox client is untouched, and on the same version).
I can't give you details of the firmware versions before and after the upgrade, as I can't login...
Can anyone help?
Damian