Experience and knowledge of Mikrotik WiFi AP Setting

Mac Addresses of the APs / Gateway

Version: 6.38.7 on hAP AC (RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT)

Version: 6.39.1 on RB951-2n

NOT Supported Version: 5.xx Series or below

Mikrotik hAP AC (Product Code: RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT)

Mikrotik RB951-2n (Product Code: RB951-2n)

Run Winbox with your router connected with a RJ45 network cable.

Click “...” button to select the MAC address(not IP address) and “Connect”. You may have to wait a while for system to obtain the address.

After successfully login to Winbox, setup the basic WiFi Setting using Quick Set

Choose “Home AP Dual” at the top left hand corner

Then set your SSID and settings as follow:

Go to IP > Hotspot

Click Hotspot Setup, select bridge and click the next button.

Enter Local area network address as the following.

Enter Address Pool of Network as the following.

Select none for Certificate.

Enter the IP address of SMTP Server as following.

Leave DNS server as blank.

Leave DNS Name as blank.

Enter the name of Local Hotspot User and Password as following.

You should see a Setup successful pop-up afterwards.

Under IP > Hotspot, click the User Profiles tab

Select default

Under General, clear Shared Users. (default setting is 1)
​If Shared Users setting is not removed, number of device a WiFi user can login to the system is restricted.

Select the Server Profile tab and double-click hsprof1 to open up the detail.

Select the Login tab. Check the box for MAC and HTTP PAP and make sure the other checkboxes are unchecked, then click the apply button.

Select the Radius tab. Check the box for use Radius, then select “XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX” as the MAC Format. Click OK to confirm the settings.

Go to Radius in the main menu, then click the “+” button to add a new radius server.

Check only the hotspot check box and enter below Radius IP Addresses as the Address. Please choose the Radius Server IP according to your geographical region.

You can choose server with smallest latency by “ping” command from your network.

Enter “social123” as the Secret. Click Ok to finalize the settings.

Go to Files on the main menu. Download the script file from the following link

https://cdn.fanswifi.com/assets/mikrotik/fanswifi_hotspot_walled_garden.rsc.

Then drag the downloaded rsc file to:

After that, you should see the file “fanswifi_hotspot_walled_garden.rsc” in the root folder.

Go to New Terminal in the main menu. Then enter:

Go to IP > Hotspot in the main menu. Then select the walled Garden tab. You should see a new list of Dst. Host like in the following screen.

Go to IP > Hotspot > Walled Garden IP List

Add below records to the Walled Garden IP List:

Go to System > Identity and enter the MAC address (The first one) of your router into the Identity field. Please be reminded that the MAC address must be in a XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX format.

Example: 11-22-33-44-55-66

Download and Unzip the file from the following links:

https://cdn.fanswifi.com/assets/mikrotik/fanswifi_mikrotik_files.zip

You should get 3 file: alogin.html, login.html and logout.html.

Go to Files in the main menu and drag the 3 downloaded files into the hotspot folder in the File list.

Login to FansWiFi Admin Panel

Click Settings -> Hotspots -> Add Hotspot

During testing, you may want to try different login methods.

But after user authorized in any login method, captive portal will not be shown again before the expiry of session time.

If you may want to bring the user back to the captive portal page for testing different login methods, you will need to unauthorize the WiFi user.

On the wifi user device, open web browser

Go http://<ap-local-ip-address>/logout
(192.168.88.1 is default local IP setting(i.e. http://192.168.88.1/logout), if you are using different setting, please input your AP's local IP here)
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