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.

Tunning Wireless Interface To Increase Throughput - To increase the troughput of the mikrotik wireless link, i have did this way.

Enter interface wireless to tune.

Data Rates Tab:

- Select configure. start with smalest values in Supported Rates A/G, in this case 6Mbps.

In addition to monitoring the network, the admin can also identify the various problems that occur on a computer network. With the traffic flow will be able to analyze and optimize network performance.


This is the configuration :

[Admin @ MikroTik]> ip traffic-flow

[Admin @ MikroTik] ip traffic-flow> set enabled = yes interfaces = all

[Admin @ MikroTik] ip traffic-flow> target

[Admin @ MikroTik] ip traffic-flow target> add address = :2055 version = 9

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