The saga continues…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkX25FGrg5A
2.4Ghz Wi-Fi only.
At least it comes with 128MB storage and not 16MB…
USB C power input - great for travelling!
https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ax_lite
https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/hAPaxlite_230135.pdf
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year 2023 and only 2,4Ghz wifi?
We have devices with 5GHz. Not everyone needs 5GHz. Sometimes price is more important
+1000
Let’s see where prices end up nowadays with inflation, etc.
I think I paid ~65€ incl taxes for a hap ac2 some years ago, so $60 for a 2.4GHz only device does not appear that attractiv at first glance.
If it helps, you can imagine this as a powerful Gigabit Ethernet router with optional wifi 
You can even disable it. It has a nice CPU and Gigabit ports.
Nice replacement for Hex and mAP/mAP Lite in one package !
Im just curious why this device is fourth in AX series… How many people will buy it…you should release 4011 AX and audience AX instead of this… I only like the USB-C power…you should make it on all new home products…I also like you are updating all of yours HW…I would appreciate some proper small and medium AP and clinets…I can not choose from any…
Disk lite…old procesor and small ram..very ugly device…make somethink as nanobeam ac… small memory
SXT SA very nice device I like it but old HW,
Omnitik very nice but old procesor…small memory
mant box is very big for me…old procesor
Already posted something to FCC.. but until the Confidentiality Request evaluation period do not end,
can’t be published nothing about the Audience ax C25UiG-5HPaxQD2HPaxD 
IMO USB power is nice for smaller, portable devices. For the rest, I guess power plug form doesn’t matter much (and barrel plug is better for higher currents) … Proper 802.3 af/at/bt support would be much more important for majority of devices / users (support for bt would offer possibility for PoE daisy-chaining). After all, most APs are using ethernet for backhaul connection.
I disagree…few days ago was my network dead because broken power adapter. If there was usbc my network would be online in 5 minutes. USBC can handle much more than few routers needs…
If your network has a single point of failure with 1 power adapter, you may have other problems waiting to break it down.
What if that device blows up ? Also SPOF ?
Home equipment shouldn’t be in the centre of a business network unless you accept it can take everything down without fall-back.
That’s a business decision the owner needs to make.
Same with paying an insurance. You take the risk yourself or you pay someone else to take it for you.
Why didn’t you have a spare adapter just lying there just in case ? That’s insurance.
There is a reason apart from performance why data center equipment is generally quite a bit more expensive. Fallback is usually designed in (or it should be).
just be wary, this is a USB-C 5V port, so it will not work with USB PD adapters, you need most likely a USB-A 5V adapter and A-to-C cable
I have very small network..only few devices from Mikrotik including 60Ghz wireless, hap AX2,AX3,AC3,AC2, SXT. I dont have spare parts, but I may buy one more power adapter
My apologies but why are you uncertain about this ? “Most likely” can be very wrong.
It has been designed and announced, so you should know for certain what works and what not. No ?
The USB-C standard is at fault in this case. While I agree, that a PD-compatible Type-C port would have been nice, the standard itself allows for 5V-only, 5V-and-PD, PD-only, and even some more exotic combinations. Heck, even with USB-PD you need to differentiate between 3.0 and 3.1, and/or SPR and EPR. And that’s without even starting on the unclear use of logos / pictograms for “compatibility” reasons.
In short USB(-C) is a hot mess. Pretty happy that Mikrotik is actually supporting USB-C 5V input on that device. Means you don’t need another wall wart, just use one with multiple outputs for phone, tablet, etc and you’re golden.
Yes, I say “most likely” becuse there are all kinds of adapters, and I can’t give a simple method to to see which ones will work, like the poster above explains, USB things are not “universal” as the name implies
Datasheet touts an increase in speed of up to 90% within 2.4GHz.
How is that possible ? Using 40 MHz channels ? Which part of WiFi6 enables this ?
An other question: what is a “dual-chain antenna”
Basically,AX is the first real feature and function improvement since 2009 (802.11n) for the 2,4GHz band.
Some of the biggest improvements:
[] BSS coordination between AP and client. BSS goes from 0 to 7, and allows the participant to ignore weak interering clients of different BSS IDs, e.g. different networks. Usually, a client will stop transmitting if it detects collisions (remember 802.11 is a shared medium & hidden node problem). While that allows a lot better latency and throughput for ax clients, things will get even worse for b/g/n clients
[] OFDMA small subchannels within the classic channels that allow for simultaneous transmission to multiple clients. Again, a massive gain in latency and and transmission quality (read: less collisions). Won’t really help in a clean-band 1:1 situation though
“Dual Chain Antenna” means 2 independant spatial streams, which means the AP can simultaneously communicate with up to two different devices, theoretically without any collisions.
Already 802.11 N specified MIMO up to 4x4, in reality many N devices implement 2x2 MIMO. With 2x2 MIMO it’s very hard (next to impossible) to implement MU-MIMO (which, BTW, doesn’t increase speed for individual stations, it may increase speed of whole AP and can improve latency as noted by @psannz).
So the big andvantage of ac over n in 2.4GHz comes from addition of higher-order modulations: 256QAM and 1024QAM … 1024QAM brings those 90%+ of speedup compared to 64QAM. It’s worth to note that the high-order modulations will only work in excellent radio conditions. If radio conditions don’t allow 95%+ CCQ for 802.11 N, then ax won’t be much (if any) faster than N.