I hope Newsletter 130 will finally give us some WIFI 7 products with multiple 2.5 or 10gb ports, there is nothing much interesting in this releases, its mostly same recycled routers with same port options and a bit refreshed chipsets..
Kind of interesting point is that hAP ax S has much faster L2 performance with bridge (and VLAN) HW offloading compared to hAP ax2 which also lacks SFP and the ability to do PoE in/out simultaneously, but ax2 has faster CPU and therefore much better routing and IPsec performance and slightly higher price but unfortunately lacks 2.5Gbps Ethernet port so actual advantage in real case scenarios seems dubious to me...
Anyways hAP ax S seems to be a better choice for most small offices that we are providing...
Well done Mikrotik, but when will you launch the long-awaited Disc AX???
Almost 2 years since Disc Lite ac was EOLed, and still no decent ax replacement…
You also really should come up with something like an nRAY with dual-chain ax backup, so we don’t have to resort to U…..eh..I mean your competitors for high-speed backhaul
The hAP ax S is just the device I’ve been looking for in the SOHO space so well done Mikrotik. Wi-Fi speed was the weak point in existing line up. Somebody mentioned 48V PoE. If you’re in that market, are you really considering a device costing £70 in the UK? There is still a very strong use case for passive PoE. Sounds like a hAP ax2 killer.
Caught me out too!! We don’t do irony around here. TBH not too fussed about 2.5G ports but keeping up to date with working Wi-Fi would be appreciated.
While neither me nor my customers see the benefit of 2.5G(over 10G) or “Wifi7” (it's crippled here) it's a hard sell for exp.: cap AX when even the slowest competition is already up to the game.