I’ve used them in all kinds of deployments. towers (PtP) roof penetrating and non-penetration mounts. (PtP) side of buildings (PtP) desk/wall/ceiling APs outdoor rated box (routers/switches) Small/medium business (wall, rack, desktop, behind desk) home (whatever random place ISP decides to put hando...

I pound sh*t out a rb5009. And it does fine .. now I know a hex or a hap ac2 are not even the same. If I had a hEX device I could probably be ok . A MikroTik device with standalone AP is what is solid for me . I have some MikroTik devices with wireless and had some incompatible issues and throughput...

My Pico 4 Pro needs better Wi-Fi, so I carry a Cudy TR3000. Recently, I’ve been trying the Hiveton H5000M. It has an active cooling fan and supports Wi-Fi 7 (BE) as well as 5G, all in a very compact form factor—about half the size of a MikroTik hAP ac². The antennas can be either internal (using a d...

hAP AX2 is faster as router. wAP AX is slightly faster 5GHz wifi. I have used AC2, AX2, and AX3. AC2 and AX2 have nearly identical routing performance. When the AC2 is on v6 and AX2 is on v7. V7 isn’t as optimized as v6 (MikroTik used to write their own drivers). So V7 takes a little bit more CPU po...

The hAP AX3 has a larger heatsink. That’s the only reason I can think the MTBF would be different. Otherwise they are constructed the same way. MikroTik might be worried the AX2 has a greater chance of overheating. Say like you’re not home, hot day, AC dies, router still powered on. AX3 would handle...

Me three. (TMI follows, thanks to my neurospicyness.) Couple of years ago I built and maintained a full UniFi setup for a small(ish) office environment but obviously was a bit disappointed with all the hype I had heard, as I noticed the “shortcomings” of UniFi management coming from a very nerdish b...

If you just want WiFi, buy something else. If you like tinkering and you could set up OpenWRT, pfSense, or a generic Linux or BSD box to do the same job, get MikroTik. I've got a couple of hAP ax2s and they're great, but I've spent more than one evening debugging things. Stuff that bit me: picking W...

Thanks, this is very annoying but I am thankful that MikroTik at least finally realized they can't keep up with all the wireless innovation and so are using Qualcomm drivers instead. There's at least 10 MIPS devices right now so I don't want to spend $100 times 10 for replacement hAP ax2, although I...