Setup guide

• To make the wireless interface as a wireless station, working in 802.11a standard and Service
Set Identifier p2p:
/interface wireless set wlan1 ssid="p2p" band=5GHz mode=station disabled=no
Specifications
Packages required: wireless
License required: level4 (station and bridge mode), level5 (station, bridge and AP mode)
interface wireless
Standards and Technologies: IEEE802.11a, IEEE802.11b, IEEE802.11g
Hardware usage: Not significant
Related Documents
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Package Management
• Device Driver List
• IP Addresses and ARP
• Log Management
Description
The Atheros card has been tested for distances up to 20 km providing connection speed up to
17Mbit/s. With appropriate antennas and cabling the maximum distance should be as far as 40 km.
These values of ack-timeout were approximated from the tests done by us, as well as by some of
our customers:
range
ack-timeout
5GHz 5GHz-turbo 2.4GHz-G
0km default default default
5km 52 30 62
10km 85 48 96
15km 121 67 133
20km 160 89 174
25km 203 111 219
30km 249 137 368
35km 298 168 320
40km 350 190 375
45km 405 - -
Please note that these are not the precise values. Depending on hardware used and many other
factors they may vary up to +/- 15 microseconds.
You can also use a dynamic value - the router will determine the ack-timeout setting
automatically.
Hardware Notes
The Wandy RouterOS supports as many Atheros chipset based cards as many free adapter slots
are there on your system. One license is valid for all cards on your system. Note that maximal
number of PCMCIA sockets is 8.
Some chipsets are not stable with Atheros cards and cause radio to stop working. Via Epia,