let's jump over to comments questions concerns regarding our mikrotik series you can find out more about this micro tech series at cat5 dot TV slash mikrotik a real quick rundown for you this series is designed to help you get from never using a micro tech device to being able to do some really cool advanced stuff with your mikrotik router micro tech routers the reason that we are featuring them is because they are affordable Zoomer priced routers but the feature set that they include is more like that of an enterprise router so you're getting way more than you pay for and we're able to do basically anything with a mikrotik router that you can with those enterprise you know devices that are ten times the price and you can have one at home they are perfect for small medium-sized businesses because they are so affordable and yet so secure and so capable so looking at the micro tech devices through the course of the series a cat5 dot TV slash mikrotik you're gonna be able to learn from the get-go how to use them how to program them how to set up your networking and that series is available for you how much money Robby absolutely free zero dollars so cat5 TV slash mikrotik is where you can enjoy that series which is ongoing and so it's a great opportunity for you to be able to learn more about these devices so jumping over to our youtube channel at linux tech show com first of all dr. reality one wants to say this is a great tutorial many thanks and dr. reality one in reference to one of those micro tech tutorials I appreciate that very very much as you can imagine a lot of work goes into the show a lot of work goes into the series and I am passionate about these devices and the technology that we demonstrate here and I'm so glad that you're that you're enjoying that TCC says I'm glad to see someone giving mikrotik some love yes how can you not I think the only people TCC who would not give love to mikrotik as you say are those who have never used mikrotik or maybe never even heard of Microtech I mean you you go to a super Center back in the days when we had those and could walk into a retail store and just buy things off the shelf those were interesting times but back then I mean what did what did you see next year Linksys right mikrotik know I don't know that I've ever seen it in a super Center so I think that maybe it maybe it's that it's not that people wouldn't love it if they knew about it so maybe that's why I'm showing some love to mikrotik because I want our viewers to know that hey there's something that's better there's something that is affordable and something that is fantastic and secure Rockaway CCW says my mikrotik came in the mail yesterday yes I tried to name my Wi-Fi this is not the Wi-Fi you're looking for but it wouldn't let me Oh see I said mikrotik can do anything but you have to have a valid SSID that I guess is I just assumed that you knew that maybe there's a character limit or maybe it I'm reading a game or maybe it doesn't like spaces or punctuation not sure so instead I named the five gigahertz not yours and the two gigahertz DEA surveillance van all right so you got two networks the five gigahertz for your own usage and this DEA surveillance ban can I suggest if you want to play this fun game that you look at on a cat5 TV slash micro Rockaway CCW I did a tutorial on how to set up a true guest Wi-Fi and you could use that virtual WLAN and then that way you're not using your you know your two gigahertz because you might want to use that for something for real right but you could set up a virtual wireless LAN and it could be named it with a silly SSID like that if you like so Rockaway CCW goes on this is a long comment folks in fact it was sent in two parts says I'd like to have the two gigahertz Wi-Fi de a surveillance van activate and deactivate at random times to mimic a van cruising around the area to freak out my crackhead neighbors oh boy is there a way to do that Rockaway CCW asks you never know the motivation of these questions but hey okay so I said you can do anything with mikrotik and truly truly you can so I'll just jump over to my pine Book Pro here which has web fig up and running and Rockaway CCW yes there it would be possible to do that okay so first of all I want to remind you that DEA underscore surveillance van that is your SSID that's not your your interface name so what we want to obtain is your interface name so over here you may remember if you've been following the series go up to wireless and click wireless and you see okay so find your 2.4 gigahertz - so there it is 2 gigahertz it's the one in the middle it is w LAN one on my mikrotik it may be different on yours but find out which one it is you need to know the name of that so in my case it's all lowercase W LAN 1 now what I want to do is go into system and scheduler and in the course of this series I have mentioned that the mikrotik is programmable so that's essentially what we're gonna do we're gonna program it using the scheduler because you mentioned that you want this to happen you said at random times it's not actually going to be random in our case we'll do it on a schedule and it will recur so it will turn on and then off and on and off so add new and we're gonna call this one name it turn off 2.4 gigahertz and my start date it's setting it automatically to tomorrow's date I want to set it to today just so that you see it happening right away and I'm gonna set it to 12 o'clock on the button with an interval now you would probably if you want it to be every minute right you could do something like that if you want it to be every 10 minutes something like that for the case of the for the sake of the demonstration I'm gonna do every 10 seconds keeping in mind we're going to be turning it on and off on and off so it's actually gonna be every 5 seconds I'm going to set the intervals as such so but that will just make it so that we can see it right away so the on event is where we're actually going to program it so we're gonna say interphase wireless disabled what was the name of it W LAN 1 ok as soon as I hit OK I'm gonna lose my W LAN 1 so if I head over to cos C it's it's already scheduled it and it's gonna say run count and that's going to start increasing see that one so now my Wireless is off so if I go to wireless now you can see W LAN 1 has been disabled so go back to your scheduler because we need to now the van is driven away presumably right so we want to make it so the van has returned let's put this into a scenario that maybe makes a little more sense because I understand rockaway CCW is being a little bit silly here but I'm still happy to oblige let's think about a parent who wants to be able to turn so set your guest Wi-Fi use that tutorial to create a Wi-Fi for your kids to use then have it turn it off automatically at curfew okay so let's use that as the there's a really good scenario I like that so there you go okay so here we are now creating remember where I am here I'm under system scheduler and I'm creating a new one so add new I don't have anything to turn it back on so re-enable 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi and this could be any interface right it doesn't have to be Wi-Fi in our case where that's the demonstration but so interface Wireless enable w lan 1 is what that one is called so now it's to look at the schedule so remember i set the other one to 12 o clock right on the button so I'm setting this the same just to make it easy for you to see on the third which is when I'm filming this live and we're setting this to 10 seconds so right now it's it's set to happen at exactly the same time as our other schedule which turns it off so basically these are going to cancel each other out so what I'm going to do is I'm going to offset this 1 by 5 seconds so every 5 seconds we're gonna have the Wi-Fi turn off and then five seconds later it's going to turn back on even though each task is happening every 10 seconds so if all goes well I'm gonna hit ok and we should see that that one is going to run and see the schedule there they're off by 5 seconds re-enable has run ok let's jump back over to wireless and watch my W land just watch it I'm not gonna touch a thing here my hands are off it's on watch WN 1 and it's off that is going to continue happening indefinitely it's going to keep going on and off and on and off now use the scenario that I gave you for those of you who are not trying to simulate a van and maybe use this to schedule that the internet turns off for the particular Wi-Fi that your kids are using at 9 o'clock p.m. and it turns back on at 7 o'clock in the morning or maybe you even though that you're having a home school right now right the scheduler can be to only saturdays and it can turn on at 7:00 but maybe because you're homeschooling now you want it to start at 10 a.m. because you want the kids to get their schoolwork done first or something like that that is a cool idea one final note for you Rockaway CCW you could actually use TX - power as part of your command so just to put this out there I'm not going to show you how to do this because this is getting into a little bit more sophistication you'll probably need to create a script and then initiate that script with your scheduler but you could have it start at like full power and turn down the power every second so that it seems as though the van is actually getting closer and then getting further away because the signal strength keeps going up gets really strong sits there at full strength for about 10 minutes and then tapers off and comes down you could actually do that using TX - power when you're programming that man putting ideas in your head all right so the question that I want to pose this week is through the course of this mikrotik series a cat5 dot TV slash mikrotik would you like me to be continuing to use my web browser web fig or would you prefer that I use wind box which is the installable client from mikrotik the advantage to like just a really really quick advantage to wind box is that it has multitasking built in and it is a tabbed layout instead of scrolling down the advantage to using the web browser is of course it's not at all reliant on what program I'm using I can just be using Firefox Chrome I'm using brave some folks argue that perhaps the client is more secure others argue that the browser is more secure and sometimes it's a moot point because the browser access I have not opened up to the world it is only accessible within my land so it's not a security risk whatsoever as far as that goes so needless to say tell me which one do you want web Fig the browser interface or wind box the application that allows you to connect your mikrotik and manage it that way and you have to tell me in your comment below why don't just say wind box I want to know why why are you suggesting I use wind box what makes you prefer it why are you suggesting I use web fig and why do you prefer it that's my question that I'm posing to you this week and I'll be back again with more at cat5 dot TV slash micro tech