I got 3 of them to play with. So far, so good. I have no complaints about the aesthetics, it's a nice looking unit. It would look even nicer if it wasn't so expensive. Still need to evaluate WiFi performance in a large house. They made the mesh backhaul 4x4 MIMO so apparently they want that to be really robust.
There's a website with photos of the insides: https://mikrotik-routeros.com/2019/10/mikrotik-audience-review-and-teardown/ I expected it to get hot or for hot air to be coming out of the top, but no signs of that at all. RB4011 gets quite warm, but it has the CPU clocked much faster, plus it has all those gigabit ports. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Dennis Burgess via AF Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2019 12:43 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Cc: Dennis Burgess <dmburg...@linktechs.net> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Audience mesh router We have sold quite a few of them and currelty have stock on them. They are a tri-band radio system, so meshing is fairly easy plus no slowdown on the repeater nodes. 99% of them work quite well with one, if you need another just add it and it has an auto connect process as long as you don't change too much. Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, MTCINE, MTCSE, HE IPv6 Sage, Cambium ePMP Certified Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition" Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services Office: 314-735-0270 Website: <http://www.linktechs.net/> http://www.linktechs.net Create Wireless Coverage's with www.towercoverage.com From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Ken Hohhof Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2019 10:01 AM To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Audience mesh router 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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