5GHz Netmetal and board for Horn, SXT and Disc or equivalent with GPS sync and adjustable up link and down link ratio.
HAPac2 with higher gain antennas 4.5dBi would be amazing (most of our customers have big houses with concrete internal walls)
Cube Lite60 with Gigabit port
Switch or ideally powerbox with 5 Gigabit ports 4x PoE in and 1x PoE out (used in scenarios where connecting small apartment block or semi detached houses using 1x SXT or Cube Lite60 without communal power)
They are in order of importance to us.
we are WISP with around 3000 MikroTik subscribers (mostly SXT’s) and MikroTik customer Routers (either 951’s or HAPac2’s)
We had to make switch to 5GHz Radwin for Sectors and CPE’s due to better spectrum efficiency and higher and more consistent throughput especially in noisy environment.
we are getting 180mb/s - 200mb/s download and 40mb/s upload (of real world performance) on 40mhz channel with 60 clients per sector and being able to reuse spectrum on back to back sectors or two sectors facing one another thanks to GPS sync.
I would love to see MikroTik step up their game in this field.
Thanks for all the great gear so far, and keep up the good work!
Note that hAPac2 can be placed horizontally and vertically … any antenna with gain any higher than 2dBi will cause seemingly random signal drops if someone changes device’s orientation. I don’t think ISP’s user support wants to handle that.
Plus: what difference does 2-3dB make? If wireless in closet room just doesn’t work now, it’ll work shitty (or still not work) with signal strength higher by 2dB. If it works shitty now, it’ll be shitty then as well. My experience is that WiFi works fairly good (but not great) when Rx signal strength exceeds -70dBm and barely works at signals around -85dBm. That’s difference of 15dB and antennae with gain of 15dBi or more are highly directional and thus not usable for mobile use.
In 3x3 MIMO the antennas could be perpendicular to each other for good coverage in any direction, no matter how the device is placed. But there are few 3x3 devices, and they are quite expensive.
I’m dreaming of a highend 802.11ax PoE+(+) powered Access point with 8 antennas for 5 GHz and 4 antennas for 2.4 GHz If course only If we have a proper MU-MIMO Implementation for up- and download.
Wishlist: CCR1016-8S-4S+ or better CCR1016-1S-16S+ I mean that we need CCR with more SFP+ ports. Not as powerfull as CCR 1072, but like CCR1016 with minimum 4xSFP+ ports(1Gbit/10Gbit).
It’s frustrating this . I wish there was a way we could sink more money into Mikrotik whether it be support contracts or donation wishlists or something to get certain features and/or products faster.
I might be in the minority , but I would have no problem paying a support contract on my goods if it meant I get better support and the chance to employ more people at Mikrotik to focus on certain areas of development.
The refusal to bundle the ability to attach higher power antenna to devices to hap AC2’s I really don’t get.It’s such a basic requirement that a Soho TP-Link from 5 years ago could achieve.
An outdoor Cap AC or Upgraded WAP AC is really a big requirement for us . Many times we have to hookup bandwidth heavy equipment to an outdoor device like a hardened tablet / laptop or imaging equipment that eats up lots of b/w.
The fact that we don’t have working MU-MIMO in 2020 is a little bit depressing tbh whilst I can get it on a crappy TP-Link …
There are huge improvements I’d like to see with Capsman like easy clustering of controllers , straightforward backup and restore of Capsman controllers , Better Telemetry / Reporting , Offline mode , WiFi Security Detection , Alerting of Overlapping Channels etc.
Agreed reg the CCR1016 with more 10 Gb Ports . I usually have a situation where I have 12-18 Gbit feeds coming in and I want at least 2 - 4 10 Gbit ports for uplink and failover.
May I add that, if my understanding is correct, 802.3bt also brings multi-gigabit (2.5, 5 or 10Gb/s).
Maybe a simple Midspan 802.3bt would also make sense as devices such do not exist, yet.
For curiosity’s sake, which current AP (any brand or model) do comply with this “802.3bt daisy chain” ?
Being able to both pass data (>1 Gb/s) and power (>802.3af) from one AP to next AP would greatly simplify cabling.
I mean that we need CCR with more SFP+ ports. Not as powerfull as CCR 1072, but like CCR1016 with minimum 4xSFP+ ports(1Gbit/10Gbit).