Yes The ISP use the PPPoE
Thanks for the information i try to config the hap ac configure as a "dumb switch+AP
The basic Hex, or the first 9 products on the “Wireless for home or office” page are all 100Mb/s devices. I realise they are all considered pretty much obsolete but they are still for sale, and I still use both mAP and mAP Lite myself for odd things. Would not mind those two in the same size with more oomph though.
I thought they were out of market... do they still make them??? 
Well I am not sure whether they are still building them or just have a warehouse-full they are trying to shift, but they are listed here and in stock locally.
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My ISP uses PPPoE and I'm using hAP ac2 as router. And I can get pretty close to 1Gbps downlink (in UL I have 300Mbps and I can get more than that most of time) for both IPv4 and IPv6. So yes, hAP ac2, if configured properly (which is not the same as correctly) can reach those speeds ... which most certainly means that firewall (and the rest) has to allow fasttrack to deal with (was majority of) traffic.
A side note: my hAP ac2 has wifi disabled (I dont' have wifi-qcom-ac or wireless package installed). If device has to deal with wifi traffic as well, then routing speed might degrade below 1Gbps (since some CPU cycles have to be spent on WiFi).
Absolutely !
As it happens to be, used mAP yesterday to connect paint mixing machine to local wifi network because the internal USB Wifi adapter was literally burned.
mAP installed outside metal housing of machine, ethernet cable to internal computer.
Closest for me is hAP AX Lite but the odd casing is not really practical ...
Yes, I can get 1gbps via its Ethernet ports and 800-900mbps over WiFi but it would limit you from upgrading past 1gbps as it only has a single 2.5gbe port and no 160mhz WiFi.
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yes, but in the anohter ports is 1 gb or no ??
Yes, only ether1 is 2.5gbe the others are 1gbe. As this is a Mikrotik you can always remap the ports and use that 2.5gbe port with an external switch or setup dual WAN etc.
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okay, that s good
Are you aware that for each device there is detailed info available on the MT's site?
No need to ask on forum, you can check it yourself.
There are huge swathes of the planet that still only deliver sub 50 megabit internet connections.
My relative in North Tanzania, many of my clients in Mozambique, and lots of corners of Kenya and clients in Cameroon that I work with have 10meg or sub 10 meg connections. Import tarrifs are high here, so a cheap device is reasonable to bring in.
My own FTTH service in a suburb of Nairobi is 100mbs full duplex but only delivers about 85mbps, and I am considered extremely lucky.
A 1gig service in Kenya costs about 1200 USD per month IF you are in a local data centre with no local loop cost.
So yes, 100 mbps devices still have a place and they are dirt cheap for our economies to bear.
I see these sorts of shock reactions on the internet all the time, and folks seem to forget how basic things can be out there.
I laugh at these amazing Wifi 6/7 or so called gaming routers that look like a hedgehog with antennas, because unless your local (in house) traffic is high, they are a pointless waste of money with a 50 meg internet connection.
For those of you that can remember them, I am writing this with Opnsense firewall running on APU2 PC Engines board. And my wifi AP is a HAP AC. There is literally no point upgrading anything until I get more bandwidth.
Enjoy!
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So what? What do you expect?
I was simply surprised they still made them; I didn't say they shouldn't make them anymore.
As a WISP, I myself offer small bundles of 20 to 50 Mbps in the countryside, with dedicated contracts up to 200 Mbps,
while in the city, with 2.5Gb fiber, it's a different story.