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w2jo

For years I have had my hotspot "guest" user rates set to 22000/44000 and it all seemed to work just fine. Now I notice "guests" downloading at the full speed of the serving WAN of 1.9Mbps. Has the format changed? I am unable to find an explicit reference that addresses this ques...

w2jo

I operate a WISP and I notice the MT RB433AH running OS 3.22 doing some authentication things I do not understand. Consider the following topology. RB433----hubAP ~~~~~~~~WET54gRadio-----ClientRouter--------ClientComputer In the above example, and with various client radios (WET54g/WET11/etc), somet...

w2jo

You are so right. The unit crashed again this week and I too could not find where the log was stored. I did make a supout file after the reboot (no access was possible following the crash), and sent it to MT. They recommended I update to 3.18 (now 3.19) which I have done. We are all hoping that will...

w2jo

Thanks.. I did find in the log setup the place to save CRITICAL and ERRORS, etc to disk. I set to save critical and errors to disk. Now.. My routerboard does not actually HAVE a disk so I assume that the logs of critical and error warnings go to flash. Is that right? Do these then appear in the LOG ...

w2jo

Does anyone have an answer?

Should I get an exchange on the hardware?

Is anyone else having the OS on a RB433AH just "stop running" intermittantly?

Thanks!

w2jo

I have a two month old RB433AH operating as a hotspot controller. It is running on an UPS so power stability is not in question. Twice now, the routerboard system (running MT v3.1.5) has "halted" and quit processing data. When this happened, WinBox was not able to access the RB433AH from e...

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I recently changed over to a RB433 and from an older 2.8.15 OS. Nominally all is now working fine on this HOTSPOT.. But I notice some unexpected phenomena. First my hardware setup: RB433---Cisco AP342----Cisco 342asBridge---WET54g------Client Computer. ...........Main AP.........Remote Bridge.....Cl...

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I tried clearing my test computer's entry in the hotspot ACTIVE list and now I am unable to automatically login via the MAC address (username and PW) in the hotspot user list. I now only see the hotspot manual login page which still works fine. I tried rebooting the router and that does not get back...

w2jo

I have a HOTSPOT running on a 3.1.3 equipped routerboard. This hotspot offers one download speed for "guests" and a faster speed for registered users. I am attempting to test the router speed by logging in as a "guest" which should (and does) give me the lower speed. But then I w...

w2jo

Thanks.. That information was what I needed.

w2jo

I believe you are right. I think I have to set up a destination-NAT. And maybe more than that. Can anyone either give me an example of the needed commands or point me to an example? I cannot seem to find an example of this construct in the MT manual.

Thanks.

w2jo

I am not sure I understand IP Binding in the MT 3.1.1 router OS. 1) If I Put a HOTSPOT side IP address (eg: 10.40.50.200) into Hotspot/IP Bindings/ in the ADDRESS entry window, select SERVER=all and TYPE=BYPASSED, is this the setup to a) allow a device with address 10.40.50.200 to access through the...

w2jo

I am in the process of updating the HARDWARE on three 4 year old MT HotSpot systems which are (were) currently running 2.8.15. I got the first unit "up and running" but encountered the problem that when I loaded 2.8.15 on the new machine and installed the old backup, all of the etherX IDs ...

w2jo

Sorry.. I left out one fact. A program called "Direct Update" in the mail server is keeping the IP address updated properly in the DNS server. So when a user executes a call to mail.coffeehouse.com, the DNS server will return the proper IP address which is the EXTERNAL IP address of the lo...

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I have a new MT router under construction for hotspot use. This one uses a mail server that is on a "non fixed" ip address. So I have to figure out how to send mail server requests to (for example) <mail.coffeehouse.us>. I want to BLOCK ANY and all port 25 traffic to any other mail server ...

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Giepie and Hilton.. My thanks to both of you. I think you have given me great advice and I shall take it. And How True! Anyone who tries to upgrade his "online" MT router should plan for an extended system outage. That is another lesson from my past! I can still (painfully) remember my sta...

w2jo

Thanks for the information. It looks as if the basic hotspot is now working but some of the special routing features are "broken". I guess they were casualties of the etherX changes as well. So, are you saying that even with the latest (3.1.x) versions that it is still impossible to make &...

w2jo

I have 3 MT hotspot controllers running in different PCs. One unit is aging and I wanted to migrate the system to a new PC. I easily loaded my 2.8.15 router into the new PC with three ethernet ports. My old system had 3 ethernet ports and they were identified in the old system as ether1, ether2, and...

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I used the hotspot setup in 3.10 to set up the basic 3.1.0 hotspot and all went well. I am trying to IMPORT certain sections of my hotspot setup (from 2.8.15) into 3.1.0. For example see the text below. Then I put this in a file named hotspot2815.rsc (sent by FTP to the MT router) and then try to us...

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Thanks Normis. I have not been able to interpret from the Configuration manual HOW to actually export the configuration files in human readable form. It seems like the command should be something like [admin@base]>export file = MT2815last But that did not work. Or at least I could not find the MT281...

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I have three Hotspot controllers that are version 2.8.15.. These have worked flawlessly now for about 4 years but now one of the computers has failed and I thought I might upgrade the program as well as the computer. Questions: 1) I have the v2.8.15 backup file. Is upgrading as simple as loading the...

w2jo

See http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.8/ap ... t#11.2.4.3

I am going to try it. Anyone have any advice?
thanks.

w2jo

Is there an application note somewhere that describes how to do outbound load balancing on multiple WAN (DHCP and PPPoE) ports? What MT firmware version has this? I know it is not in 2.8.15 which I am running now.

Thanks.

w2jo

I operate a small WISP and have 1 DSL and one DHCP link to the internet. Presently, I use a dual wan SOHO router and follow that with a Mikrotik router for control of my WISP network. I need to add another DSL to the mix. Does Mikrotik now have the capability to load balance traffic in the outbound ...

w2jo

Thanks for your help. The DoS packets are not actually making it out of my system onto the wider WAN/Internet network. I have a multiple WAN load balancing router between the MT and the outside network. I am sure that the IP sending the DoS packets is, in fact, one of my hotspot users but the interm...

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Some computer (or computers) on my Hotspot network are periodically doing an "oversized/fragmented DOS PING attack" on remote IPs. My head end router blocks the oversized pings from getting to the network but so far I have not been able to pinpoint the IP address of the offending computer....

w2jo

That is great Normonds.
Thanks!

w2jo

I second the motion for easier management of multiple units. I would like to see the ability to select features in ONE router and "automatically" add the feature to one or more other routers. For example, it would be nice to be able to add a firewall setup to one router, check it out and t...

w2jo

When input a series of MAC addresses, must put in colon between each number pair as 00:60:08:20:85:E3. When typing in large numbers of these into hotspot automatic MAC login, it is tedius. I agree that the MACs are easier to read with the colon punctuation. How about making the input parser accept M...

w2jo

One easy way is to go to WinBox>IP>Hotspot and put in the client's MAC address as name and password in the USER setup. Be sure to activate the "auth MAC and auth MAC login" (or something like that) in settings for the hotspot on this same hotspot page. You can also use cookies if you want.

w2jo

You do not say if you are willing to use the hotspot feature or not. If you DO use the hotspot feature, you can set up multiple user profiles. Each profile can include up and down bandwidth limiting settings. To automatically login to the hotspot, users can use a) cookies, or b) MAC address.

w2jo

That 2.9 feature pacakge sounds really great John, Will your "Cisco like" implementation have any of the following: 1) Multiple SSID capability? 2) ability to operate as a bridge and AP simultaneously? 3) ability to simultaneously bridge to multiple distant points? 4) interoperability with...

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Hotspot Rate Limit seems not to work in new MT version 3.22

How does MAC authentication for HOTSPOTS work?

Re: Routerboard RB433AH intermittantly stops operating

Re: Routerboard RB433AH intermittantly stops operating

Re: Routerboard RB433AH intermittantly stops operating

Routerboard RB433AH intermittantly stops operating

"Strange" behaviour on MT ver 3.14 on RB433

Re: Testing Hotspot Speed and Resetting (ver3.1.3)

Testing Hotspot Speed and Resetting (ver3.1.3)

Re: IP binding: Public LAN to Hotspot LAN

Re: IP binding: Public LAN to Hotspot LAN

IP binding: Public LAN to Hotspot LAN

ether1, ether2 ID changes when system moves to new computers

Re: Hotspot passthrough for email (2.9.51)

Hotspot passthrough for email (2.9.51)

Re: Migration from OLD computer to NEW computer> Restore Fails

Re: Migration from OLD computer to NEW computer> Backup Fails

Migration from OLD computer to NEW computer> Backup Fails

Re: Upgrade from MT ver 2.8.15

Re: Upgrade from MT ver 2.8.15

Upgrade from MT ver 2.8.15

Here is how to make the MT load balance across multiple WANS

Multi WAN port on a Mikrotik?

DOS PING attack, how to track?

Feature Request: Easier MAC entry in hotspot and other place