passive PoE is cheaper to implement no need for expensive injectors and or switches, that’s why mikrotik uses passive PoE to make devices and implementation more affordable.
It’s always better when device supports 802.11af too. If you don’t have PoE infrastructure – add splitters and use passive PoE, but if you already have – it’s “Plug and Play”.
I just put my hands on this device and it is very nice. Still figuring out the range of use of it, it is to be considered as “mobile” wireless device rather than a fixed one, although it will serve as a fix AP very well.
Anyway, my problem is with its default configuration. In a device which has only one ethernet interface, prohibiting connection to that interface by default is … well how can I put it, dumb? Even if it gets an IP from dhcp-client configuration you can not connect it using IP or mac. I managed to connect to it using tik-app from my android phone and disabling the rule in filters which drops connection on ether1. I guess that even reset it will always bring the default configuration, only other way is to netinstall.
Now if you’re planing to give it to end users, this is going to be a real pain, unless of course you do the configuration for yourself and hope that the end user does not reset it, or … I am dumb myself and don’t know how to use the default configuration
By default, you are only able to access the router through wireless interface as it is stated in the quick guide. The logic behind that is the ethernet goes to wall (ISP) and users are connected to wireless.
Fair enough, but you have to consider that a lot of people still use ethernet for configuration. While wireless devices are at hand of almost every one, it is not easy to configure a router using tik-app which is still in development. You have not implemented such thing for SXT for example. I know SXT is supposed to connect to internet through wireless and ethernet to the end user, but still it is so much more handy to configure through ethernet, in my opinion.