MikroTik

Hi there
I was wondering if it was possible to tether a connection from my iPhone to a RB using the personal hotspot over USB?

If so has anyone done this?

Has anyone tried this?

If not, I suppose I will try it here shortly using an RB2011.

Are there any updates for this incident?:)

lg herophil322

Indeed anybody has dare to tried making this setup to work?

Unfortunately, this does not work. You would need to use a WiFi to Ethernet bridge, and tether the phone via WiFi.

indeed i would like to know if this is possible
would like to test iPhone(6) Hotspot via USB for routerboard

i was experimenting with a RB951 an a TP-Link 3G dongle (worked like a charm after you set Data channel to 2 and Info channel also to 2)
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As the poster right above you already said, this is not possible. It would require RouterOS to have specific USB drivers for the iPhone/iOS tethering function which it does not have.

-- Nathan

Is possible to connect to an iPad wireless hotspot and share that connection over the LAN.

If so, are there any gotcha steps?

Yes, just like any other wireless connection. Router must be in wireless "Station" mode

Yes, just like any other wireless connection. Router must be in wireless "Station" mode

Ok. Thank you.

Was trying today but must have been doing something wrong.

More use to sharing a wired connection wirelessly than the other way around.

There's a gotcha: if you expect your wired clients will get IP address from iPad (has built-in DHCP server for wifi tethering purpose), then it probably will not work. WiFi "out of a box" is not transparent enough so L2 specifics don't work and DHCP starts off L2. In particular, problem is that your wired client's MAC addresses will not be available to DHCP server on iPad. "Normal" APs implement advanced feature called WDS, I don't know if iPad does the same. If it doesn't, then you'll have to perform NAT in your RB ... and run DHCP server on RB for wired clients as well.

As a gedankenexperiment I'd try this one of two ways.

Connect the Mikrotik as a station to the iPhone and then off the same bridge set up an AP slave interface using the same or different SSID. The iPhone might not care about this arrangement. You could also make the AP as a master or the station as the slave. I don't think it matters. You might have to play with station pseudobridge and pseudobridge-clone modes for this.

If that doesn't work then:

Connect the Mikrotik as a station (with a DHCP client on that interface) to the iPhone and then set up an AP slave using a different SSID (the AP and station interfaces must NOT be on the same bridge). The AP slave interface can have it's own DHCP server and a masquerade rule. You'd likely be triple NATing this way (Mikrotik NAT, iPhone NAT, carrier NAT) but it should work and the iPhone would only see the devices connected to the Mikrotik as one device.

Either way should work tethering off any device, not just an iPhone.

I have tried USB tethering with an android phone, and it works well:

* Connect the phone to the RB, it will be seen as lte1
* Go the Tethering and select USB tethering

I tried it with a phone that was connected to a different wifi that the router, and alsoe using the SIM, and worked well.

This worked for me too - plugged in Android phone, turned on USB tethering on the phone and the router picked it up instantly as lte1 in the interface list.

I have tried USB tethering with an android phone, and it works well:

* Connect the phone to the RB, it will be seen as lte1
* Go the Tethering and select USB tethering

I tried it with a phone that was connected to a different wifi that the router, and alsoe using the SIM, and worked well.