-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr Sent: Sunday, 28 December 2014 6:27 AM To: MikroTik Australia Public List Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] RouterOS USB Wifi support?
Hey Karl,
The RB951G-2HnD is what I have :-p But it only has one Wifi interface - so can't act as a guest, and AP at the same time. :\
Thanks Mike, yeah I saw that list - seems quite a few years out of date though? I was hoping someone had more info on what might actually be supported :)
Cheers,
Damien
On 27 December 2014 at 23:18, Karl Auer <kauer@nullarbor.com.au> wrote:
On Sat, 2014-12-27 at 21:01 +1100, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
Got me thinking I want to use this any time we go away - but most places we stay only have Wifi available, not ethernet. And the RB951 only has one radio interface. Any suggestions of USB Wifi adapters which might be available which work with RouterOS? (That way I can also have it connect to our telstra 4g hockey puck when we're not using hotel wifi)
For not that much more that the cost of a good-quality USB wifi dongle you can have an entire MikroTik router with wifi capability. Why not just get a mAP-2n, an RB951G-2HnD or an RB951Ui-2HnD?
All of those models have ethernet so you can attach your existing RB951, all of them have USB so you can use a 3G/4G dongle in them (though you can do that already with your existing RB951), and they all have wifi, so they can associate with the hotel wifi or with your Telstra 4G puck. Not sure about the mAP-2n, but it might even be able to power your existing RB951, in which case only one plug-pack would be needed.
Plus, when you are not actually hotelling, you have a general-purpose router available for doing all sorts of things with - not just a single-purpose wifi dongle.
All that said, I'd still like to hear how you go with adding a wifi interface via a dongle, if that's how you choose to go. In particular, can you use them as access points, or only as clients?
Regards, K.
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karl Auer (kauer@nullarbor.com.au) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160
GPG fingerprint: 231A B066 CF91 1216 4F0F F2AC CE25 B8AA 46DC CC4F Old fingerprint: 1DB8 0599 13F0 E774 3811 6CA6 D6D0 AFA9 D91A 004C
_______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com. au
--
Damien Gardner Jnr VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust rendrag@rendrag.net - http://www.rendrag.net/ -- We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of
Good morning! Karl was suggesting that you buy a mAP instead of USB wifi - mAP supports PoE-in, so you can connect to ether5 of your 951G to work it more or less the same as a usb dongle ;) Cheers! Mike. thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au