XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: _arlen.george@halder.edu   
      
   On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 21:55:36 -0700, Johann Beretta wrote:   
      
   >> I agree with you on the alignment tool being easy and intuitive to use, but   
   >> I don't have experience with anyone else's alignment tool (I can't find it   
   >> in the Mikrotik menu).   
   >   
   > No surprise there as it's in a rather dumb location. Interfaces / WLAN1   
   > / Near the top (10th button from the left in my router)   
      
   Hi Johann,   
      
   Wow. Thanks for that suggestion as, you're more aware than anyone where,   
   that the MicroTik RouterOS must have at least a hundred or more different   
   "menus", many deeply nested, where there could be hundreds overall.   
      
   I think with your help, I may have gotten close, although it's NOT   
   intuitive what the steps are to get it to actually work.   
      
   By way of comparison, here's the Ubuqiti AirOS align sequence result:   
       
      
   Here's a screenshot I just snapped for you of the RouterOS align result:   
      
      
   Where that was obtained on Windows 10 Pro by running these steps:   
   o Doubleclick on "winbox.exe" & up pops "MikroTik WinBox Loader v2.2.18"   
   o Log in to the RouterOS "WinBox v6.28 on RB411" IP address as 'admin'   
   o Left click on the left panel of menus item named "Interfaces"   
   o That brings up a new window titled "Interface List" with 9 tabs   
   o Those 9 tabs are: Interface, Ethernet, EoIP Tunnel, IP Tunnel, GRE Tunnel,   
   VLAN, VRRP, Bonding, & LTE   
   o In that "Interface List" are 3 items: bridge1, ether1, & wlan1   
   o Doubleclick on "wlan1" & up pops an "Interface " window with 15 tabs   
   o Those 15 tabs are: General, Wireless, Data Rates, Advanced, HT, HT MCS, WDS,   
   Nstreme, NV2, Tx Power, Current Tx Power, Advanced Status, Status, & Traffic   
   o At the right of that same "Interface " window are 13 "buttons"   
   o Those 13 buttons are: OK, Cancel, Apply, Disable, Comment, Torch, Scan, Freq   
   Usage, Align, Sniff, Snooper, Reset Configuration, & Simple Mode   
   o I click on the "Align" button and an "Alignment (Running)" window pops up.   
   o That window has a pulldown set to "wlan1" & 5 buttons to the right   
   o Those 5 buttons are: Start, Stop, Close, Wireless Alignment Settings, & New   
   Window   
   o In the middle of that window are 8 tabs   
   o Those 8 tabs are: Address, SSID, Rx Quality, Avg. Rx Quality, Last Rx, Tx   
   Quality, Last Tx, & Correct (%)   
      
   I must be close, but when I press "Start" or "Stop" the window header   
   definitely changes from "Alignment (Running)" to "Alignment", so, I must be   
   close ... but I don't see where I'm supposed to see the signal strength   
   graphical values (and I don't hear any beeping sounds either).   
      
   The radio is "working" because when I press "Snooper", I get a long   
   dynamically changing listing of all the radios it can 'see'.   
      
   Likewise, when I press "Sniff", it shows sniffed packets.   
   Same with "Freq. Usage", I see the frequency & noise levels.   
   Also, when I press "Scan" I see a list of access points & information.   
   Even "Torch" does something, although I don't know what I just torched.   
      
   Am I close?   
      
      
   I don't know where to look to see the signal strength numbers or graph.   
      
   --   
   The Mikrotik router menu is like Linux where AirOS is like Windows.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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