I’m planning to setup a new equipment for my home. My plan is purchase a hAP ac2 and a cAP (there are some areas that could not covered with only 1 router). However it seems the hAP has WiFi issue. Is that any other Miktorik routers that you recommend?
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What is your uplink speed? Do you have some NAS or other source of high speed/high volume local traffic?
The thing is that devices like hAP AC lite have only FastEthernet (100 Mbit/s) copper ports, so there is little advantage in having wireless speeds higher than, say, 120 Mbit/s. The hAP ac² and cAP ac have gigabit ports and so the wireless speeds above 150 Mbit/s do matter.
So if your uplink is currently below 100 Mbit/s and you don’t need to watch HD videos stored on the NAS over the air, the hAP ac² and cAP ac may be enough as they work now, with a hope that the issue will be removed by a software update in future. The hAP ac² has a other nice features which make it attractive for particular purposes where wireless speed is not the critical factor.
If you urgently need 600 Mbit/s over the air, you’ll have to choose another brand. So sad things stand right now.
Thanks a lot for the details explaination.
My home broadband was down from 500 to 100Mbps due to expensive new contract terms, there are 1Gbps plan in Hong Kong too, I may change ISP on next contract for a better speed to oversea.
My kids will watch YouTube TV and my wife will watch HD videos from my NAS/internet.
There is a network cable between router and AP.
My original plan is to deploy RB 750gr3 and 2 APs. But it seems the new hAP has a better spec, so that I’m struggling now [emoji38]
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The original hAP AC works quite well. Mixed reviews on the the hAP AC 2. Mikrotik WiFi performance is as sindy stated good but not great. Personally I use two UniFI AC access points at home and use a CCR1009 with passive cooling so I don’t hear a fan.