Hi There,

I'm looking for some help/advice about setting up a hotspot on Mikrotik hardware. I'm not looking for anyone to hold my hand and take me through this step-by-step, but just for some basic pointers. I'm eager and willing to learn everything myself.

I'm running my current hotspots on DD-WRT firmware using chillispot for authentication with a VPS hosted MySQL/Radius server. I've seen the light and now want to migrate all my hotspots over to Mikrotik. I've just purchased a Routerboard RB800 to play around with. I will make the RB800 the standard for each hotspot. It looks like an excellent piece of kit!

My network setup is very basic. I have one gateway router and several wireless access points in bridge mode. The gateway router (currently dd-wrt based) runs PPPoE (for ADSL Connection - modem in bridge mode), DynDNS, Chillispot, Firewall, QoS, Port Forwarding.

I guess the first question is where do I start with the RB800?

All the best,
Cinders.

I would start here. There is great documentation.

http://wiki.mikrotik.com

Thanks. A day of reading lies ahead!...

Haha. At least.