ack-timeout (integer | dynamic | indoors) - acknowledgement code timeout (transmission acceptance timeout) in microseconds for acknowledgement messages. Can be one of these:

dynamic - ack-timeout is chosen automatically
indoors - standard constant for indoor usage

antenna-gain (integer; default: 0) - antenna gain in dBi. This parameter will be used to calculate whether your system meets regulatory domain's requirements in your country

antenna-mode (ant-a | ant-b | rxa-txb | txa-rxb; default: ant-a) - which antenna to use for transmit/receive data:

ant-a - use only antenna a
ant-b - use only antenna b
rxa-txb - use antenna a for receiving packets, use antenna b for transmitting packets
txa-rxb - use antenna a for transmitting packets, antenna b for receiving packets

area (text; default: "") - string value that is used to describe an Access Point. Connect List on the Clients side comparing this string value with area-prefix string value makes decision whether allow a Client connect to the AP. If area-prefix match the entire area string or only the beginning of it the Client is allowed to connect to the AP

arp (disabled | enabled | proxy-arp | reply-only; default: enabled) - Address Resolution Protocol setting

band - operating band

2.4ghz-b - IEEE 802.11b
2.4ghz-b/g - IEEE 802.11g (supports also IEEE 802.11b)
2.4ghz-g-turbo - IEEE 802.11g using double channel, providing air rate of up to 108 Mbit
2.4ghz-onlyg - only IEEE 802.11g
5ghz - IEEE 802.11a up to 54 Mbit
5ghz-turbo - IEEE 802.11a using double channel, providing air rate of up to 108Mbit
2ghz-10mhz - variation of IEEE 802.11g with half the band, and, accordingly, twice lower speed (air rate of up to 27Mbit)
2ghz-5mhz - variation of IEEE 802.11g with quarter the band, and, accordingly, four times lower speed (air rate of up to 13.5Mbit)
5ghz-10mhz - variation of IEEE 802.11a with half the band, and, accordingly, twice lower speed (air rate of up to 27Mbit)
5ghz-5mhz - variation of IEEE 802.11a with quarter the band, and, accordingly, four times lower speed (air rate of up to 13.5Mbit)

basic-rates-a/g (multiple choice: 6Mbps, 9Mbps, 12Mbps, 18Mbps, 24Mbps, 36Mbps, 48Mbps, 54Mbps; default: 6Mbps) - basic rates in 802.11a or 802.11g standard (this should be the minimal speed all the wireless network nodes support). It is recommended to leave this as default

basic-rates-b (multiple choice: 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps; default: 1Mbps) - basic rates in 802.11b mode (this should be the minimal speed all the wireless network nodes support). It is recommended to leave this as default

burst-time (time; default: disabled) - time in microseconds which will be used to send data without stopping. Note that other wireless cards in that network will not be able to transmit data for burst-time microseconds. This setting is available only for AR5000, AR5001X, and AR5001X+ chipset based cards

compression (yes | no; default: no) - if enabled on AP (in ap-bridge or bridge mode), it advertizes that it is capable to use hardware data compression. If a client, connected to this AP also supports and is configured to use the hardware data compression, it requests the AP to use compression. This property does not affect clients which do not support compression.

country (albania | algeria | argentina | armenia | australia | austria | azerbaijan | bahrain | belarus | belgium | belize | bolvia | brazil | brunei darussalam | bulgaria | canada | chile | china | colombia | costa rica | croatia | cyprus | czech republic | denmark | dominican republic | ecuador | egypt | el salvador | estonia | finland | france | france_res | georgia | germany | greece | guatemala | honduras | hong kong | hungary | iceland | india | indonesia | iran | ireland | israel | italy | japan | japan1 | japan2 | japan3 | japan4 | japan5 | jordan | kazakhstan | korea republic | korea republic2 | kuwait | latvia | lebanon | liechtenstein | lithuania | luxemburg | macau | macedonia | malaysia | mexico | monaco | morocco | netherlands | new zealand | no_country_set | north korea | norway | oman | pakistan | panama | peru | philippines | poland | portugal | puerto rico | qatar | romania | russia | saudi arabia | singapore | slovak republic | slovenia | south africa | spain | sweden | switzerland | syria | taiwan | thailand | trinidad & tobago | tunisia | turkey | ukraine | united arab emirates | united kingdom | united states | uruguay | uzbekistan | venezuela | viet nam | yemen | zimbabwe; default: no_country_set) - limits wireless settings (frequency and transmit power) to those which are allowed in the respective country

no_country_set - no regulatory domain limitations

default-ap-tx-limit (integer; default: 0) - limits data rate for each wireless client (in bps)

0 - no limits

default-authentication (yes | no; default: yes) - specifies the default action on the clients side for APs that are not in connect list or on the APs side for clients that are not in access list

yes - enables AP to register a client even if it is not in access list. In turn for client it allows to associate with AP not listed in client's connect list

default-client-tx-limit (integer; default: 0) - limits each client's transmit data rate (in bps). Works only if the client is also a MikroTik Router

0 - no limits

default-forwarding (yes | no; default: yes) - to use data forwarding by default or not. If set to 'no', the registered clients will not be able to communicate with each other

dfs-mode (none | radar-detect | no-radar-detect; default: none) - used for APs to dynamically select frequency at which this AP will operate

none - do not use DFS
no-radar-detect - AP scans channel list from "scan-list" and chooses the frequency which is with the lowest amount of other networks detected
radar-detect - AP scans channel list from "scan-list" and chooses the frequency which is with the lowest amount of other networks detected, if no radar is detected in this channel for 60 seconds, the AP starts to operate at this channel, if radar is detected, the AP continues searching for the next available channel which is with the lowest amount of other networks detected

disable-running-check (yes | no; default: no) - disable running check. If value is set to 'no', the router determines whether the card is up and running - for AP one or more clients have to be registered to it, for station, it should be connected to an AP. This setting affects the records in the routing table in a way that there will be no route for the card that is not running (the same applies to dynamic routing protocols). If set to 'yes', the interface will always be shown as running

disconnect-timeout (time; default: 3s) - only above this value the client device is considered as disconnected

frequency (integer) - operating frequency of the card

frequency-mode (regulatory-domain | manual-tx-power | superchannel; default: superchannel) - defines which frequency channels to allow

regulatory-domain - channels in configured country only are allowed, and transmit power is limited to what is allowed in that channel in configured country minus configured antenna-gain. Also note that in this mode card will never be configured to higher power than allowed by the respective regulatory domain
manual-tx-power - channels in configured country only are allowed, but transmit power is taken from tx-power setting
superchannel - only possible with superchannel license. In this mode all hardware supported channels are allowed

hide-ssid (yes | no; default: no) - whether to hide ssid or not in the beacon frames:

yes - ssid is not included in the beacon frames. AP replies only to probe-requests with the given ssid
no - ssid is included in beacon frames. AP replies to probe-requests with the given ssid ant to 'broadcast ssid' (empty ssid)

interface-type (read-only: text) - adapter type and model

mac-address (MAC address) - Media Access Control (MAC) address of the interface

master-interface (name) - physical wireless interface name that will be used by Virtual Access Point (VAP) interface

max-station-count (integer: 1..2007; default: 2007) - maximal number of clients allowed to connect to AP. Real life experiments (from our customers) show that 100 clients can work with one AP, using traffic shaping

mode (alignment-only | ap-bridge | bridge | nstreme-dual-slave | station | station-wds | wds-slave; default: station) - operating mode:

alignment-only - this mode is used for positioning antennas (to get the best direction)
ap-bridge - the interface is operating as an Access Point
bridge - the interface is operating as a bridge. This mode acts like ap-bridge with the only difference being it allows only one client
nstreme-dual-slave - the interface is used for nstreme-dual mode
station - the interface is operating as a client
station-wds - the interface is working as a station, but can communicate with a WDS peer
wds-slave - the interface is working as it would work in ap-bridge mode, but it adapts to its WDS peer's frequency if it is changed

mtu (integer: 68..1600; default: 1500) - Maximum Transmission Unit

name (name; default: wlanN) - assigned interface name

noise-floor-threshold (integer | default: -128..127; default: default) - value in dBm below which we say that it is rather noise than a normal signal

on-fail-retry-time (time; default: 100ms) - time, after which we repeat to communicate with a wireless device, if a data transmission has failed

periodic-calibration (default | disabled | enabled; default: default) - to ensure performance of chipset over temperature and environmental changes, the software performs periodic calibration

periodic-calibration-interval (integer; default: 60) - interfal between periodic recalibrations, in seconds

preamble-mode (both | long | short; default: both) - sets the synchronization field in a wireless packet

long - has a long synchronization field in a wireless packet (128 bits). Is compatible with 802.11 standard
short - has a short synchronization field in a wireless packet (56 bits). Is not compatible with 802.11 standard. With short preamble mode it is possible to get slightly higher data rates
both - supports both - short and long preamble

prism-cardtype (30mW | 100mW | 200mW) - specify the output of the Prism chipset based card

proprietary-extensions (pre-2.9.25 | post-2.9.25; default: post-2.9.25) - the method to insert additional information (MikroTik proprietary extensions) into the wireless frames. This option is needed to workaround incompatibility between the old (pre-2.9.25) method and new Intel Centrino PCI-Express cards

pre-2.9.25 - include extensions in the form accepted by older RouterOS versions. This will include the new format as well, so this mode is compatiblewith all RouterOS versions. This mode is incompatible with wireless clients built on the new Centrino wireless chipset and may as well be incompatible with some other stations
post-2.9.25 - include extensions in the form accepted by MikroTik RouterOS starting from veriosn 2.9.25, and compatible with all known wireless clients

radio-name (name) - descriptive name of the card. Only for MikroTik devices

rate-set (default | configured) - which rate set to use:

default - basic and supported-rates settings are not used, instead default values are used.
configured - basic and supported-rates settings are used as configured

scan-list (multiple choice: integer | default; default: default) - the list of channels to scan

default - represents all frequencies, allowed by the regulatory domain (in the respective country). If no country is set, these frequencies are used - for 2.4GHz mode: 2412, 2417, 2422, 2427, 2432, 2437, 2442, 2447, 2452, 2457, 2462; for 2.4GHz-g-turbo mode: 2437; for 5GHz mode: 5180, 5200, 5220, 5240, 5260, 5280, 5300, 5320, 5745, 5765, 5785, 5805, 5825; for 5GHz-turbo: 5210, 5250, 5290, 5760, 5800

security-profile (text; default: default) - which security profile to use. Define security profiles under /interface wireless security-profiles where you can setup WPA or WEP wireless security, for further details, see the Security Profiles section of this manual

ssid (text; default: MikroTik) - Service Set Identifier. Used to separate wireless networks

supported-rates-a/g (multiple choice: 6Mbps, 9Mbps, 12Mbps, 18Mbps, 24Mbps, 36Mbps, 48Mbps, 54Mbps) - rates to be supported in 802.11a or 802.11g standard

supported-rates-b (multiple choice: 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 5.5Mbps, 11Mbps) - rates to be supported in 802.11b standard

tx-power (integer: -30..30; default: 17) - manually sets the transmit power of the card (in dBm), if tx-power-mode is set to manual, card rates or all-rates-fixed (see tx-power-mode description below)

tx-power-mode (all-rates-fixed | card-rates | default | manual-table; default: default) - choose the transmit power mode for the card:

all-rates-fixed - use one transmit power value for all rates, as configured in tx-power
card-rates - use transmit power, that for different rates is calculated according the cards transmit power algorithm, which as an argument takes tx-power value
default - use the default tx-power
manual-table - use the transmit powers as defined in /interface wireless manual-tx-power-table

update-stats-interval (time) - how often to update statistics in /interface wireless registration-table

wds-default-bridge (name; default: none) - the default bridge for WDS interface. If you use dynamic WDS then it is very useful in cases when wds connection is reset - the newly created dynamic WDS interface will be put in this bridge

wds-ignore-ssid (yes | no; default: no) - if set to 'yes', the AP will create WDS links with any other AP in this frequency. If set to 'no' the ssid values must match on both APs

wds-mode (disabled | dynamic | static) - WDS mode:

disabled - WDS interfaces are disabled
dynamic - WDS interfaces are created 'on the fly'
static - WDS interfaces are created manually