Plants I talked about earlier, just in case anyone thinks I wasn’t being serious…
As you can see, there really IS more place for plants and flowers.
Edit…
The 5009 is 230€, the ax3 is 140€. My brain is somehow convinced that simply de-wirelessing the ax3 into a new product would drop the new product’s price down to 100-ish €.
Unlikely, if your answer is not the current ax2.
In manufacturing terms drop a few euros for the saved wireless card and antennae. Nothing else changed in the device but costs for marketing, stocking and differentiated production all went up. Sell the non-wireless ax3 for 129 and raise the current ax3 to 160.
Any other change to the design or form factor adds design and development costs to the above. Whether they can be said to get the answers right or wrong, product selection and positioning is no quick or easy business.
Not even that, in hAP ax2 and hAP ax3 wireless is part of SoC. With possible exception of power amplifier (if even that). So the manufacturing cost drop would only come from missing antennae. If those are procured from some Chinese fruit market, this would probably total at 0.95€ per device (on hAP ax2 antennae are internal, so probably even cheaper)
just saying.. this is a case where if mirkotik continued to produce the two powerline units, it would have been perfect. MK’s exit from this range of products that could make a difference in the home is incomprehensible
It doesn’t matter what your requirements are, the product line never matches it.
The TS apparently wants the perfect device for the least amount of money, or else he gets in a divorce.
But even without that problem, it is difficult to find the perfect device for everyone!
E.g. I would like a device that has WiFi (supported by new driver), USB, and a couple more ethernet ports, like 12..16.
There is nothing like that. CCR2004-16G-2S+PC is nice but no USB and no WiFi, RB5009 is nice, has USB and reasonable storage, but no WiFi and too few ports, RB4011 is nice but no USB and WiFi not supported by new driver, etc.
There is no “power-user home router”. I use the RB4011 but I need a separate 8-port switch and cannot use the new WiFi driver, and have to use NFS when I want a little more storage.
guys… there are some products category…like router, switch, poe switch and you mix those categories to have HW wchich suits only you.
Buy AX3+ swtich thats it
Just make sure that switch isn’t from the CRS354 variety, right?
4 years of port blocks randomly shutting down.