Mikrotik How To

Advanced Mikrotik Hotspot Setup - You can also go a step further and play with some other available options, as this only skims the surface of the hotspot capabilities.


1. To disable communication between wireless clients (recommended), disable the default forward option on the wireless interface.

interface wireless set wlan1 default-forward=disabled
2. To set up a wallet garden (pages people can access without authenticating), use the following command:

ip hotspot walled-garden add dst-host=www.website.com
3. To limit client bandwidth type the following, replacing profilename with the current hotspot profile in use and speed with the rate limit in bits per second:

ip hotspot profile set profilename rate-limit=”speed“
4. You can customise the login and status pages by editing the files in the hotspot directory of the Mikrotik box. You can access these via FTP.