or 3D print your own case 
Drawings are available for cAP Lite so why not ?
Yes, probably you not.
You probably didn’t notice that the “free space” around the RouterBOARD is the reflectors for the antennas…
I'm just asking if they are really needed, if the end result is an ugly looking thing that raises questions about quality from the customers.
Perhaps they could make a 'long range' ugly version and a 'regular' version for the rest of us.
Or just make it prettier FFS. It's an ugly as sh*t design.
Does it make any diffrence???? People has better signal with CAP AC than with CAP XL......
Not really.
I have both installed and XL is better.
Does it make any diffrence??? People has better signal with CAP AC than with CAP XL…
Have you tried it yourself, or do you read “other people’s” problems instead?
Usually those who have problems write on the forums, I have rarely found someone who subscribes to the forum just to thanks, because it works better…
I did not tried CAP AC vs CAP XL because I would never buy such a ugly device as CAP XL…but I tried AX2 vs external antena AX3 and the signal is the same…
Excuse me for saying this, but what a stupid way of thinking is that?
From the start you compared two different products: hAP ax² (int. 4.5/4dBi) with hAP ax³ whit external antenna(s?) (which?, the own 2.2/5.5dBi?),
then you didn’t compare the hAP ac² with the hAP ax²,
and from this do you deduce that the cAP (XL?) ac «has better signal» than the cAP ax?
“Maybe it will be true”, but it remains a stupid reasoning.
Yes. Hap AX3 with original external antenna has same WiFi as hap ax2. I red poples comparison between cap AC and cap XL…the WiFi is the same some poeple has even better results with cap AC thorough two walls…
(for the previous comparison, is normal, the hAP ax² have like twice, but not the “double”, the dBi on 2,4GHz, against the hAP ax³)
You read also @holvoetn?
I don’t comment on the product that should come out,
but in my comparison between cAP ac and cAP XL ac, the latter is better.
Sorry for bothering this nice discussion, but all the AX devices are also using much much more powerful CPUs and new wifi + new CPU also always means more heat. Big case is not for aesthetic reasons, but for cooling. I don’t think it’s possible to make AX devices in the size of cAP lite
I did tested AX2 vs AX3 on 5,4 Ghz…
Please make CAP AX..not only CAP XL AX and also hAP AX2 with USB 
(and it was a stroke of genius to use the free space for the deflectors 
)
Hmm. Did you read what I wrote?
sorry…I realized now what you meant by lite…so at least we hope cAP AX will not be the same size as cAP XL
- cap ac: Round case: ⌀ 136 mm, height: 30 mm; Square case: 145 mm x 145 mm x 30 mm
- cap xl ac: 191 x 42 mm
- hap ax2: 120 x 101 x 37 m
For the heat argument, I would like to add a serious question (I am not trolling or something):
Why can a hap ax2 with stronger cpu and new wifi fit into a 120x101 casing. Whereas a cap ax needs this large case like a cap xl ac. It can’t be the “so much heat” then. Is it for better wifi coverage or something?
The posted image is probably showing the inside from a bad angle. I can’t see anything other than plastic between the board and the antennas.
exactly…take hAP AX2, put into case cAP lite and remove 3ethers..save some money for development new PCB for cAP AX XL…now we have to put hAP AX2 put on the celing becasue smaller design and better look than the big wheel
AX2 has quite a lot of ventilation openings all around and will usually be standing vertical, even if placed horizontal there is the plastic foot to keep those openings free.
Cap AC XL (and AX) are always mounted on bottom side against a ceiling or wall. Less possibility to get heat out.
Especially when mounted against a ceiling, what direction do you think hot air travels ? Up.
So yes, it could indeed be because of heat dissipation.
PS true story: I used to work for a big telco manufacturer.
I’ve seen prototype test setups where the top assembly boards literally had their components MELT OFF because of dissipated heat from lower circuit boards.
Oops …
Nice firework spectacle when those things drop on a powered board underneath, until the fuses blow 