Mikrotik Wireless: configuring a repeater

If these are the same you will only have to make one configuration here

Once this has been configured you will need to go to the wireless interfaces tab and select the wlan interface that you would like to extend, the first thing we need to do is set the wireless interface with all the settings that the other wireless has, this can be done easily by clicking the scan button then waiting for the wifi that you would like to connect it back to. Once you are able to see the ssid of what you would like select it then click the connect button.

Once you have done this you will see that it is still not connecting, but that is ok as we do not want the main interface to connect. The reason behind this is that the slave interface will only be enabled if the main interface is running, if a station is not connected to anything it is not considered running but if an AP is on with nothing connected it is still considered running.

With that in mind we want to change the mode of the main interface to AP bridge then click the advanced button so we can see all the other options, in here we want to set the frequency mode to regulatory domain, set the country to English then set the DBI to the DBi of the antenna installed (can be found on our shop website) you are able to change the SSID on this interface if you would like it to be different from the access point you are repeating

The next step will be to set up the virtual interface to connect back to the ap you are trying to repeat, go back to the wireless>wirfi interfaces menu and click the add button then select virtual, in here all we need to do is set the SSID and security profile to the main WifI's SSID that we are trying to repeat then select the master interface and its status should hopefully go to running and slave(will turn black instead of grey)

Once you have done this all you need to do now is set up the other wireless interfaces a a normal ap(no virtual interface required) as we already have our link set up back to our main ap we are trying to repeat.

Now that the wireless interfaces are set up all we need to do now is put them in a bridge to forward the traffic, please go to the bridge menu and under the bridge tab click new, all we need to do here is name the bridge if you want to otherwise just click ok

After this go to the ports tab and add the wireless interfaces to it

That is all that is required to set up a repeater from a Mikrotik to another Mikrotik device

Due to the limitations discussed in https://shop.duxtel.com.au/help/en-gb/5/15 we will not be able to bridge the interfaces over as this will not be supported, If we followed the guide above there will be slight changes we will need to make.

The first change will be to go the the virtual wireless interface and change it from station-bridge to just station

From there you will need to take this interface out of the bridge

Once this is done we will need to get an IP address from main AP on our vitual interface, we do this by going to ip>dhcp-client and adding one on the virtual interface

Then we need to set up a masqerade so our local network from this router can get out, this is done by adding a rule in ip>firewall>nat and adding it as chain=src-nat, out-interface=wlan3(or what you named the virtual interface to) action=masquerade

Finally once this is done you will need to set up the local network since the network from the main wireless, all we need to do here is to go to IP>addresses and add an address on the bridge that has our wireless interface that is set with the ap

Then go to IP>dhcp-server than use the DHCP set up button to help you make a new server.

The last part of this will just be going to ip>dns and checking the allow remote requests button, once this has all been set up your non Mikrotik to mikrotik repeater should be working