u/Alone-Breadfruit5761

New user here...figured I had a good basic understanding and had my RB5009 and cap ax running just fine after some serious learning curve lol. What everybody said about a steep learning curve was absolutely correct!

My wife called me saying the Internet went down. I also received an email saying my garden watering system has been offline. That's odd

I'm at work and log in remotely to see if the connection is successful...sure enough I can get to all my home devices (even the ones that are wireless).

Get home now and all my connections are connected with no internet. I didn't change anything and have no idea where to start troubleshooting...that's where the real knowledge comes in right?! 🤣😉

I've logged in to my cap ax and all the settings seem ok...the fact that it's broadcasting tells me it should be fine.

Logging in to the router now just to start digging. Any help please?

First off, I am only a few weeks into owning Mikrotik (anything), no I'm not a network specialist at all, but I am a Controls Engineer with a lot of experience so I do understand a good amount up front and catch on quickly.

2 questions I haven't been able to find answers for at this point.

1. I have set up the router, created my network and bridge and all wired connections operate at or above the speeds advertised by my ISP. Yay for that 😉 My wireless though, I have a 2.4g and 5g set up with name and password same as my last 💩 router. All devices connected automatically which was my hope. However, my Macbooks won't connect to the 5g network. But they will on 2.4 and both are set up the same with wpa2. The specific message is that the network could not be joined.

2. DNS with Cloudfare IP's worked for a time and didn't allow anything. Yay for teenage boys in the house. Now nothing at all is blocked and I didn't change any settings.

Help please?