I totally missed the existence of this product and apparently the US version is actually shipping.
Has anyone tried them out? Typical of mesh systems, it doesn't have a full complement of Ethernet ports, but 2 is better than 1 like some of the mesh products out there. It's less expensive than a 4011, but it's pretty and has easy mesh setup. A 4011 is currently my best Mikrotik family choice for whole home WiFi coverage in large homes, but it's overkill for most customers, who typically don't need anything close to 10 GigE ports, the 4011 also gets pretty hot, and it's expensive. Rarely in customer homes can we run cables to additional routers and use CAPsMAN, and the Mikrotik powerline networking product has been disappointing. Am I missing something about the easy mesh setup? Is this something I could do with hAP ac or 4011 routers if I just learned how? The "Audience" product has two 5 GHz radios and apparently uses U-NII-1 for clients and the upper bands for backhaul between mesh units. I'm hoping since this runs the regular Mikrotik OS that you don't really have to use a phone and the Audience app to set it up and can just use Winbox from an Ethernet port. That's something I dislike about most customer purchased mesh systems like Google/Nest or Eero, you need an app on your phone and to set up a Google or Eero cloud account, so it's not really something our installers are going to want to set up for the customer.
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