I am network engineer and search for wifi router for home. Microrotik have two types of routers: MIPS based or ARM based. What is difference? What is better?
Actually we also have PPC, SMIPS, MIPS-LE and TILE. There is no better. Just different architectures.
And MMIPS… 
Router size is better determined by the WAN bandwidth you want to “move” first, and what kind of filtering, queueing, etc you’ll want to apply.
Do you need a router with wireless capabilities? Will you go with a seperate router and AP?
what kind of filtering, queueing, etc you’ll want to apply.
I thought that this is same on all routers with same RouterOS level ( RouterOS: Level 4).
pukkita> Do you need a router with wireless capabilities?
Yes /n or /ac, 2.4 and 5 GHz.
pukkita> Will you go with a separate router and AP?
No, but it is possible, if this this option is cheaper.
Go by ARM, hap ac 2 for example.
https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2#fndtn-testresults
Go by ARM, hap ac 2 for example.
This option is two times cheaper than hap ac. What’s worse with it?
The biggest difference is lack of SFP port and 2 wireless chains instead of 3. But this is of little importance, since nearly all WiFi devices are 2 chain anyway.
These are not MIPS ISA versions, but Mikrotik configurations.
And is there any MIPS CPU that is not bi-endian besides R8000 ?