This will for sure be a controversial topic, and mostly based on how I feel at this time.
I feel MikroTik should shift their priorities and focus on hardware and verticals .
Given the current state of their technology and shit show with their current wireless products, IE: Outdoor AX and AX drivers needing improvement.
I feel MikroTik could benefit if they focused on specific vertical and do it WELL.
Routers
switches
and then 60Ghz, and other PtP wireless outdoor equipment
MikroTik 60Ghz is quite good. Much better than their current AX outdoor products. The 60Ghz and 80Ghz market is growing and I feel MikroTik 60Ghz is more stable and reliable than their AX products. I feel they would be better focused and produce better satisfactory response from customers.
Look at all the wireless complaints. MikroTik cannot compete with other wireless vendors at this time - products are inferior. [radio performance, shielding, build quality]. Plastic enclosures. Pickup Cambium, Meraki, Ruckus AP’s and these are real AP hardware.
MikroTik focus on their low-cost for third-world… and they get what they get.
Unless MikroTik re-create their webUI and or a unified wireless operating system.
I’ve seen a lot of posts like this over the years and it typically amounts to the same thing:
You’re not happy with MikroTik for your use case and you don’t want to buy a more expensive product that does exactly what you need, so it’s MikroTik that needs to change how they do business
SO true. They have their fair share of problems and gotchas, but outside of these problems, they are rock solid. Yes, some of those gotchas will mean they aren’t good for Your use case. No problem: use something else. This is a hardware maker, not a cult - buy whatever fills Your needs.
Huh. I didn’t realize that. My entire ISP business is based on outdoor wireless. Same with 3,000 or so other wireless ISP’s in the US alone. Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) is one of the fastest growing sectors in the United States, drawing many customers away from the big-name cable and fiber companies.
Ubiquiti’s 60GHz Wave product line is selling like hotcakes, and other smaller 60GHz manufacturers using Peraso’s chips are doing very well.
So, upon what data do you base your “outdoor wireless is dead” claim?
Well its equally arrogant to think Europe is the centre of the Universe… Of course its Canada but thats another discussion.
Suffice to say, it was an emotional short sighted statement that was a waste of carbon 1s and 0s.
Even in Europe not everyone has fiber ( definitely not where I live, no fiber in the street and not for several years to come…).
Xdsl or coax mostly. More and more cord cutters are using 5G as sole entry.
Depends on the country. There are several European WISPS on the Facebook WISP Talk group.
Some European and Asian countries are so dense, running fiber is considerably cheaper than elsewhere. But it doesn’t mean it’s everywhere.
Also, the original statement “outdoor wireless is dead” also foolishly ignores the fact that billions of mobile phones use outdoor wireless, and in some places, that is the primary form of Internet connectivity. Large venues use tons of outdoor wireless to provide connectivity to vendors, attendees, employees, etc. Universities, hospitals, and other entities with large campuses often use wireless links between buildings. One university I know of has thousands of two-way radios used by their campuses and complains that their own fiber network isn’t reliable enough for the critical functions their two-way system serves, and is considering a dedicate wireless network tying their repeaters together.