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.

We assume that the mikrotik was connect to the internet, so we not have to write in this artilce about setting gateway.

Run the hotspot setup as below. Substitute the values in italics to suit your network. The user account bears no relation to the admin account and is used for the hotspot service only. You may also need to add a host record to your DNS server for the hostname of the hotspot box. Make sure the address pool does not conflict with any devices using static IPs, such as access points.