Hello all, I have two LHG 5s (without ac) for a long time, and they are working well for years now. But I am thinking of replacing them with LHG 5 ac for better speeds, since the source has a 200 mbit connection my LHG 5 can transfer only about 70 something mbits.
My question is why is LHG 5 ac discontinued? Is there a better choice for a point to point connection of about 3.5km?
Only LHG XL 5 ac is sold but that is also difficult to find…
Maybe most buyers preferred the extra link margin for AC use that an XL provides…
I do have an LHG 5 ac but it sits unused in storage because I did not notice that it does not support 10 MHz bandwidth, which we use.
So now I use a LHG XL HP5 instead (of course on normal power).
When you want better speeds on outdoor links, I suggest you look at competitor products (the U name)… they usually outperform MikroTik.
I cannot understand why Mikotik has discontinued the AC version of LHG, and keeps selling the old A/N version with mipsbe chip and only fast ethernet on the cable side.
We use a lot of LHG’s units for rural connections: SXTsq AC has too low gain, and LHG XL’s size exceeds a “normal size” antenna. Disc-lite units fails on the radome, years ago we’d installed mipsbe units, and retired all of them with the radome cracked by the sun (almost all with only 1 year in production).
We’re surprised to see that there’s no other product that matches LHG AC’s specifications on the Mikrotik portfolio, and we have to start to study other options in other brands, against our will.
Maybe they have a warehouse full of old LHG 5 and no more LHG 5 ac in stock, then they would have to produce it again?
The architecture of the LHG 5 ac is similar to the hAP ac2 and its limited 16 MB flash is becoming a problem with RouterOS v7.
So maybe at some time we will see a LHG 5 ax to replace it (128 MB flash, wifiwave2 support).
It could be they are still working on RouterOS upgrades for better PtP support in wifiwave2 (it seems the latest rc has some).
Maybe not, I’m sure they have tons of Mipsbe’s stored… but I refuse to purchase an outdated model that doesn’t match even 2020 or 2018 “standards” on CPE’s.
16MB flash is a headache, I agree with you, but they’re still workable on production.
I think you’re supposed to move to the DISC Lite5 ac? It would be nice if they suggested a replacement product when they discontinue something.
Those are garbage, don’t buy them!
No, I think we will see an AX model in the (near?) future…