We are happy to announce our new low cost home AP, the hAP lite:
http://routerboard.com/RB941-2nD
Recommended list price is $21.95
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How does this differ much from the 951-2n? Is it meant to be direct replacement of it or do they tackle 2 different needs?
Has one less Ethernet port, but two Wireless chains instead of One. It is also cheaper and has faster CPU.
Also seems to have a more powerful CPU, but no PoE in support.
The product picture shows ether1 marked as “Internet”, while others are marked as “LAN”. Is the first port completely independent, or can be put into the same switch group the other ports are in?
I noticed that, too, but the RB750 and 751 also have that very same restriction (and maybe the 951-2n as well; I don’t know because I haven’t played with one), and if it is running full RouterOS (and I have no reason to believe it isn’t), there is no reason why you could not bridge ether1 and ether2 together.
I’m more curious behind the design decision to use a Micro-USB connector as the power port instead of a traditional barrel connector. I don’t have anything against it, but it just seems a little weird if the port is only for power-in and isn’t going to serve in any other capacity. Is it because restricting it to 5V (vs. the generously wide input range that most RouterBoards are famous for) made the power regulation side easier to design and cheaper to manufacture, and since USB has standardized on +5V, using Micro-USB ensures that nobody will plug a power supply with the wrong voltage in and cause damage? (Actually, when I stop to think about it, if that’s the reason, that’s kind of genius…)
Any word on NAND storage? Is it going to be like a normal RouterBoard with somewhere between 32-64MiB minimum, or is it going to be more like an mAP in that respect, with the same kind of software update procedure as an mAP?
– Nathan
Looks awesome. If only it had POE. Cant use it without that unfortunately.
yes, it is a SMIPS
total-hdd-space: 16.0MiB
It looks promising, but a bit low on wireless power, very good price/feature ratio anyway.
Isn’t it time to have all ethernet ports on gigabit speed? What could be the cost of it? Nowadays all laptops and desktops, or network HDD cases ship with gigabit ethernet.
I would also like to see a 5GHz product, or even better both bands on same device, because all mobile platforms support 5GHz.
Good job MikroTik.
It’s always nice to see new products.
So, when’s the hAP PRO announcement?
It is your secret rb941 (in another topic)
Ok. It is cheap.
But having only 32MB of ram?? Now, when wee see that it is very limiting for running v6.x and expecting that v7.x will be again more requesting? Why?
Powering by unreliable small tiny micro usb connector? Why?
No POE in? Why?
Not possible to use wide range of power adapters like for other devices? Why?
This is not the thing I would like to see to be announced. From technical point of view I consider it to be big step back.
Hope you will sell milions of pieces and get at least 50% of list price as your profit to be able to produce devices that would help us to build networks more effectively.
You still have 951Ui and 951G for more power. It is a home device, not everybody is looking for complex configurations and 50Mbps at home, so I guess there is still market for such low end products.
Yes, I agree, there is a market for such devices. Asus, tp-link, d-link and others are selling on this market very well. So why not mikrotik? I have nothing against. But I am looking forward to other devices - able to nat with some firewall rules at gigabit speed and having two radios - one ac and second 2hnd.
I already told it - I wish mikrotik will make a heap of money on it. But to be honest, we all know that even there is quickset, the ros operated devices are not easily adoptable by home users knowing nothing about networking…
And the weak powering is not good even for home users. The tiny connector is easily to be broken and mobile/tablet chargers that will be used as power adapter for it can be burned very easily.
Interesting product for its price, want one at home, waiting it to arrive in Russia.
Why all these indicators (power, activity) are on the back side?
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Great Product !
For that price, and adventages who offer is much better then Tp-Link, ASUS, etc low end products.. When will be available to buy Normis? Can you post more images from product (back, side, etc..)
The one thing that we are forgetting is that ~80% of world doesn’t have more than few Mbps connection at home. So with this device you can have firewall\queue\VPN setup and still hitting those speeds with no problems (judging from performance table on bottom of routerboard page).
USB power is nice solution, this device is now similar to keyboard,mouse,web camera - you just keep it plugged in USB port of your PC and it will work.
P.S. i love the short marketing name concept - “hAP” is much easier to use in conversation than “951”
Very nice product with a low cost.
When will be available to buy ?
Nice product for the price! Now I am curious what is coming next! I like this hAP line already 
A gigabit PoE-in version would even be better, as others suggested already.
On to a hAP with .ac
I’d like to see dual-band cAP some-when in the near future.