We have been using hAP ac. Had also been offering the hAP ac Lite as a cheaper option main difference being it is 10/100 plus it’s so small nobody takes it seriously. WiFi might be somewhat diminished because the internal antennas are squished into a smaller space, but I never saw a huge difference.
WiFi performance is not Mikrotik’s strength, I think the main deficiency is no DFS frequencies for US market. But also antennas don’t match the fancier store brands. Latest FW for some reason you have to change a setting from indoor to any before it will let you use U-NII-3. I did a comparison in my 3 story 100 year old house between my Technicolor cable modem, hAP ac, and Audience. Honestly they were all pretty similar. It seems to me where the higher end (non Mikrotik) routers do better is when you get several rooms away, being able to use multipath and still get a decent modulation. I have a handful of customers with 2 or 3 unit Audience mesh systems (not really true mesh). The customers are happy. We can manage it remotely. I think the Audience prices have come down to where it’s now comparable to hAP ac, which isn’t saying much because hAP ac is overpriced. But the Audience is pretty. hAP and all similar Mikrotik routers are somewhere on the spectrum between homely and ugly, they don’t make a good first impression. I wouldn’t agree that Mikrotik hAP ac family WiFi performance sucks, but mediocre probably describes it, plus no DFS channels. So if you’re #1 criterion is WiFi performance, Mikrotik should probably not be your choice. The interesting thing is there are lots of store brands with lots of very impressive external antennas, but then there’s the Google OnGo routers from ASUS and TP-Link, which are physically very similar to Mikrotik’s Audience. And most cable modems, even from the ISPs that tout their superior “whole-home WiFi” have internal antennas, albeit in a giant case. So I’m not sure if the fancy antennas really that much extra performance, or it’s just for show. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Sam Lambie Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 6:11 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik HAP Ac-Lite. Sucks for Wifi Thanks David. On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 2:02 PM David Coudron <david.coud...@advantenon.com <mailto:david.coud...@advantenon.com> > wrote: We started with Hap ac lite and moved to the ac2. It is significantly better. We had some ethernet port failures on the ac lite here and there, and we have not seen that on the ac2 either. So it is a much better option in our opinion. Thanks, David Coudron From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Sam Lambie Sent: Monday, October 5, 2020 11:50 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: [AFMUG] Mikrotik HAP Ac-Lite. Sucks for Wifi We have deploying the hap-ac-lite for over a year now and love the customization that you can do with flashing the routers with a custom configuration, graphing, and all the other things that Mikrotiks are capable of. However, the WiFi sucks a big bag of d#$k. Does anyone have a recommendation in the Mikrotik world for WiFi that is pretty affordable that works? I ordered some HAP-AC2 but haven't received them. Specs show almost a 7 db gain in 2.4 and 3 db gain in 5ghz, so maybe that will help out. We are trying hard not to go the managed WiFi solution as of yet because handing money over to someone else to manage something like WiFi is a bummer. -- -- Sam Lambie Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com <http://www.newmex.com> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- -- Sam Lambie Taosnet Wireless Tech. 575-758-7598 Office www.Taosnet.com <http://www.newmex.com>
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