MikroTik Access Point Configuration

let's have some micro tig access point configuration in this video micro tick access point configuration so as usual we will start with default configuration and we will check our microtic system license if it supports ap configuration thereafter we will check the required system package for our wireless we'll go through the wireless menu walkthrough we'll do some tests first on our wireless environment then we will configure our wireless access point and then test our wireless access point connection with some devices all right in this demo we have a micro tick hub ac light so this model comes with two wireless interface so as you can see we are in a default configuration and from this display or window you will notice that you have and while then one configuration and ylan 2 configuration which has a mode of ap bridge all ready so we'll go to the details on this demonstration okay first on our checklist is to determine if what is the current system license for this microtic so we go to system we go to license and we'll notice we have level four so in my credit we have up to level six so why this is significant because you cannot run this device or this microtech device into an access point mode if the license is below four so meaning to say if you have three or other license lower than four then you can only set up on a bridge wherein you can only connect a single client but if you are serving multiple clients so therefore you would want it to become an access point then the minimum license requirement is level number four okay the next thing to check is if our micro tick device has the required package so in micro tick terminology they have this packages wherein you can go to system you go to packages menu and you take a look at this list these are the main packages or main package for this microtech device so here you'll go to the list and notice there is wireless which is not faded out so it's not disabled so unlike ipv6 so it's faded out so therefore it's default disabled so here you just need to make sure that the wireless package is there because you can uninstall it or perhaps disable it so make sure it's enabled and you won't have any problems so again you need to go to system you need to go to packages and make sure the wireless package is there and it's enabled so now the license is settled the packages is there so we can now go to the wireless menu so over to the wireless menu click on this one you go to the first tab so as you notice there are two while and one and while and two entries that are faded out so if you see the flag is xs and if you wait for a while it says disabled and it's slave okay so meaning to say uh it's x disabled and slave because this two interfaces or these two wi-fi interfaces are members of a bridge for example you have a default bridge a default configuration bridge and if you go to ports while in one and while into is there so x is for disabled s is for enabled so this interface is for 2.4 gigahertz this interface is for 5 gigahertz so you need to click on each interface and enable the wi-fi interface that you wish to run on your environment so this is dual band meaning to say you can run the 2.4 in the 5 gigahertz interface okay so let's enable the first wi-fi interface named while and one so you click on this one and you click the check or enable so it won't be faded out the x will be gone and we double click and go inside the settings so as you can see the name is while in one you can actually change the name of this wi-fi interface we can go through the rest of the menus later but we have to do first a test of your current wireless environment by making use of these tools that are available in microtic okay one tool we could use that is available in this wireless menu is frequency usage so we can click on this one and uh do a run on while and one which is our 2.4 interface and we go start and it will perform a check on which frequency has a higher usage or which frequency has this particular usage so you'll have this frequency two four one two or you could say channel one down to channel thirteen okay so your channel one channel two channel three and so on and so forth so you'll notice you have an idea which frequency or channel you could use that is not within a higher usage so for example this one or for example this one or this one so it depends in your environment so it's good or nice thing to do or check your environment so you could see there are some changes on this frequency so perhaps you run the test for a while to determine if what is really not that bc or frequency without uh other access points that are operating on that particular frequency so you could use this frequency usage another tool that you could use is wireless snooper so this could give you some more detail in terms of the usage in each of the frequencies so we click on this one so we'll click start and uh you'll notice uh this has more detail than the previous one the frequency usage you'll see the channel or the frequency you have the channel with the wireless amendment g or n and the transmit power so i'm just hiding the address and the ssid or the wi-fi name for confidentiality but you'll you'll see in if you will run on your own the neighboring wi-fi in your environment as well as the signal strength the frequency and the traffic and per perhaps an idea of the the bandwidth and other details that could help you determine which frequency or sometimes you don't have choice already because your environment is too crowded with several access points but at least best practice is to perform a so-called survey in your wireless environment so microtech has built in tools frequency usage and wireless snooper to at least help us on that part now that we have performed some sort of wireless survey so we can go ahead and go back to our wireless configuration by double clicking or clicking this ylan interface so general so we have seen this a while ago so the tools are also here okay so the tools are also available so not only here but as well as here specific to this particular interface so we could now proceed to the second menu which is the wireless where in its the place or the setting or the tab wherein we can change it to an access point so first is mode so current mode is station so in microtic a station is a client or a receiver okay so we are trying to configure this as an access point so the first setting that we need to change is change this one into an ap bridge okay so we have some more other choices but again this video is constrained to access point so here you have the band so you see me tell you or you hear me tell you that this while in one is 2.4 because out of experience while n1 is 2.4 but if you don't want to guess the frequency that it will run you go inside it's setting wireless setting and you will notice the band that is available available to you so you have two gigahertz only so you choose which amendment you will run so only n or bgn or to provide some backward compatibility in your environment so for instance i will select only n but then again it depends on your scenario here so channel with okay so you have some channel with uh choice so for now it's a channel with 20. so we let go to further detail on this channel with to uh limit our discussion so again they have the frequency so if you have your chosen frequency out from your wireless survey so you select on that one so let's say this is the uh not so busy frequency okay so the fourth one so channel 4 next is your ssid or your wi-fi name so for example we have this my demo wi-fi as my name okay so mode is there ban is there frequency is there wi-fi name is there so you'll notice each of the setting that you will change from the black text it will form or it will turn to blue next is the frequency mode so you have some options here manual tx power regulatory domain and super channel so for now i will constrain to regulatory domain but there are uh future videos that we will discuss on the usage of this one manual tx power and super channel so i will constrain first with my country regulations regulatory domain so you have to select my country so we'll go to down and go to select philippines for example so you have installation whether it's indoor or outdoor so far now i will select any okay so this is the basic mode or basic window for this tab because if you go to the right you will see an advanced mode so we will click on this and see if there are additional settings that we need to configure i have clicked the apply to commit the changes in the wireless settings so you will notice as well on the bottom of this window it says running ap so if we will check on our mobile devices or wi-fi devices for example a laptop or your cell phone we would see this my demo wi-fi that it should be broadcasting however there are some other settings that we need to take a look and see if we have some changes on it so we click on the advanced mode so we are now in the advanced mode so in the advanced mode there are just additional settings that you could put some value or set some value however you'll still see the mode and the other settings that we have previously or just recently set okay so we still have the mode the van the channel with the frequency and the wi-fi name so you will see a radio name so this name will be used on identifying the wireless radio or this wi-fi interface or this access point when it connects to other clients or for example if this is an ap bridge you will see a registration of those clients especially if they are particularly using a micro tick access point okay so this will be useful in identifying the stations on the other way around if this is a station it will also reflect the access point radio name so radio name is a micro tick parameter so for example we'll put a myap01 as my example for the radio name so we'll just leave this kinda list as default you'll have to decide on the dfs channel so normally you'll have to skip the dfs channels dynamic frequency selection or you could have some settings or changes on this one so for example let's leave it as it is okay so we are on the two gigahertz so wireless protocol okay so we have any here and we have some settings or options that we can choose so we have n stream nv2 and the 802.11 so this is open standard this is microtic wireless protocol or proprietary protocol so if you select on this you are constraining clients or stations for this access point to be microtic only however if you want to have some clients for example mobile phones of different brands or laptop then we have to choose 802.11 but the default one any would be okay or suffice for this matter next is the security profile so security profile is important because it will determine if your wi-fi is open and or it has some form of authentication prior to the connection to the wireless so again if the security profile is leave as default this wifi will be open so the security profile is actually here okay so we can go to this later and we'll have to take a look at what are the security profiles that we can add so for now the drop down arrow is or the drop down for this thing is only for default okay so next is the regulatory domain so we have already done that one philippines and other stuff we have to scroll down okay so we have some options here so normally we have only changed the radio name and the uh let's discuss the discuss the wireless protocol and the dfs channel so but for for now we have to choose or have chosen disabled but for example if we this is a 5 gigahertz then we have to determine this one so next is we will create or add or check the security profile so for now we'll click on apply for this wireless one or wireline one settings so we go to the security profiles tab so remember we are from this window so to go to the security profile tab so either you can just minimize this or get it on the way or you can close this window and go to the security profile tab it's still under the wireless menu okay so notice you have the default security profile that is the option only on the advanced mode so when we go to the security profile the drop down is only showing default because in security profiles you only have the default of course obviously so we have to go in and see what are the settings here so default is the name the mode is none so the mode is none the mode you have some choices okay so it's none so meaning to say there's no form of authentication whether it's wpa or wpa2 whether it's pre-shared key or eap or the other encryption okay so this one is intended if you have some public wi-fi wherein you have some other forms of authentication other than the pre-shared key okay so we will leave this as default and add our own security profile so let's just term it as my security profile for now okay so you have to select which key so you have static keys and dynamic keys so there are meanings of this one okay so these are the olden days uh keys wherein we will select uh wep and so on and so forth so dynamic keys we have some choices for wpa and wpa2 okay so for security we can uncheck the wpa and persist wpa2 pre-shared key we can go to a higher encryption standard or go to the tkip so it depends on your environment whether you're enforcing a higher security level and higher encryption standards so you have to type your wpa2 pre-shared key which is highlighted here because we have unchecked the wpa so if we check on this one so in these two boxes okay or fields you need to supply okay so for instance we will check these two for this demonstration and it will also select tkip for this demonstration to provide some backward compatibility if some device would not be able to support this advanced encryption standard okay so for example the pre-shared key is let's say a very very uh simple one so i'm typing here and you have some wildcard characters so to review or to make sure you want the correct password type correctly so you have the go here to settings and unhide the password so it will show for example password for wi-fi so you can copy paste this one and obviously you have to make sure to select or to create a strong password other than this example so for now this is a demonstration purposes and let's see let's leave it this way okay so password for wi-fi so my security profile it depends on you what are the authentication types the encryption that you would like and obviously please make sure your password is strong or periodically change this password so that uh again uh those intended to use this access point will only be the one to access this one because the password is not uh known to everybody or everyone or easily be identifiable okay so we click apply and click ok so we now have a new security profile entry and we go back to the wi-fi interface while in one and see if this is now available in the drop down menu okay so from security profile tab we go back to the wi-fi interfaces and go to the while and one and we're still on the advanced mode because if this is simple mode okay this is simple mode button meaning to say this is in advanced mode so if you click simple mode meaning to say you are in the simple mode and this is written as advanced mode so we don't need to be confused on this one okay so we go to advanced mode because the security profile is not present or visible in the simple mode so advanced mode so we go to the security profile so as you can see we now have some choices for the security profile so we now have our my security profile so we go select on this one so that our wi-fi will have some form of authentication with a pre-shared key which we have written or we have typed in the security profile tab so we click apply and we'll click ok ok so now for the moment of truth whether this wi-fi access point configuration will be working and we will have some clients that will be able to connect to this wi-fi interface so for now we have none because we have two clues this is s so this there is no a or active flag or code second is in the registration table we don't have any clients listed here so we have an idea that for this interface there is no one yet connected to this one before we connect some client if you will ask me first whether when a client connects will they get an ip address so the answer is yes because this is in default configuration so remember this interfaces these wi-fi interfaces are part of a bridge interface and this bridge interface has an ip address and this bridge interface is providing dhcp server okay so the default configuration takes care on that matter wherein our client will have an ip as long as they can successfully authenticate for this wi-fi okay so i have a test client i use my mobile phone to connect to this wi-fi interface so as you notice uh it should be r not a so it should be r running and s so a while ago it's s so now when there is a client that is connected to this wi-fi interface it should add a running okay then you go to the registration tab you will notice that there is now a client that is connected with an uptime of this seconds it is not an access point and remember there is no radio name because i am using a client a mobile phone that is not a micro tech device i will have some tx rate and rx rate my transfer and receive rates so you will have to determine if these rates are what you expect on your wi-fi interface so but for now is successful a client is connected to this particular wi-fi interface and again if you want to really double check if this client has gotten an ip address you can go to ipdhcp server and you go to the leases and you will see that by virtue of default configuration the client has an ip of 192.168.88.254 and you notice i have some uh address here such as as well the active mac address as well as the expiry of the lease okay so there you go for this 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi interfaces we have successfully tested that a client can actually connect to this wi-fi interface since it's a dual band microtech device it supports another while and two so if you will have to enable this one while in2 and you go in and go to the wireless tab you'll notice that the change is on the band okay so this violin 2 now operates on a 5 gigahertz frequency okay so you will have to select your band whether it's n or ac okay so this is hub ac light so you could safely select the ac as well as check your frequency and now you have a number of frequency that you have you can select then again you have to do some wireless survey in terms of what are the things that you can se what are the frequency that is best fitted in your environment then your ssid will still be there your frequency mode will still be there and you can still go to the advanced mode put in a radio name now you have to think on the dfs channels since this is in 5 gigahertz and as well as your wireless protocol and security profile for this five gigahertz but for the purposes of doing this demonstration we will limit the demonstration for 2.4 but if we really going to configure this is practically the same we'll go to ap bridge we'll select a 5 gigahertz uh cha band we have some channel width okay so it could support up to 80 megahertz okay so we have some frequency changes as well as the usual security profile as well as the frequency and the country okay so that will be for the five gigahertz so they can actively be operating the 2.4 and the 5 gigahertz in this particular device so you could safely enable these two for this micro tick so in this video micro take access point configuration so we have started in a default configuration so first we have checked if we have the required system license level of number four level four we also go to the system package and determine if the wireless package is enabled next we go to the wireless menu itself and show you where we could find the wi-fi interfaces so for our demonstration we have a model that has two wi-fi interfaces which is 2.4 and 5 gigahertz but before we go into the wi-fi configuration or wi-fi setting we have shown you how to use the built-in tools in microtic to perform some sort of wireless survey so particularly we have used the frequency usage and the wireless snooper tool after we have used the built-in tools or built-in wireless tools in microtex so we did go in to one of the interfaces so particularly 2.4 interface and go to the wireless tab to start configuring the access point so under the wireless simple mode configuration we have changed the mode from station by default to ap bridge because we want it to become an access point so we show you the band so some choices for the two gigahertz as well as the frequency so it depends on your survey which has the list interference so you select the frequency or the channel number then you type in the ssid or the wi-fi name that will be the name it will be broadcasting to your wi-fi devices we have also selected the frequency mode so we have chosen the default one regulatory domain as well as select the country after the simple mode we also go to the advanced mode and find some additional settings that we need to put for instance the radio name as well as the security profile so we did go to the security profile to create some form of authentication by using some pre-shared key from there we tested our 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi and we have successfully shown you that there is a test wi-fi device that is able to connect and acquire an ip address also we have enabled the 5 gigahertz wi-fi interface and shown you the settings inside this interface then we finally go into the 5 gigahertz wireless settings and obviously the difference will be the the band so it will be running on five or operating on five gigahertz obviously there are difference on the frequency that is available so now there are more frequencies in the 5 gigahertz band however the mode will still be the same the ssid will still be the same parameter that we can supply into as well as the security profile will still be needed to configure if you opt for a wi-fi that requires authentication so there you go this is microtech access point configuration and thank you for watching

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Published: Tue Feb 09 2021