Newsletter #129 | November 2025

Wifi6 is capable of over 3Gbps, even this hAP ax S and other MikroTik devices are declared to go up to 1800 Mbit/s so without 2500Mbps Ethernet you are cutting much of the performance Wifi6 AP should give...
And Wifi7 is supposed to be much faster, up to 4 times, so 2.5Gbps Ethernet should be a minimum for Wifi7 AP to make some sense...

As far as I can see the MikrioTik web site has been changed (even without the announcement :grinning_face:)
So do we like it?

Whilst those might be the theoretical limits, we all know real world throughput is much lower even a few metres away from the access point, if there’s any kind of barrier (like people). So as with all Wi-Fi leaps, it’s not so much the maximum but the general uplift. Plus of course, most people don’t need 1Gbps. Plus the feature whereby overall bandwidth is split into smaller chunks allowing more devices on each access point.

I would like to know this too

Passive cooling, SPF, 2.5G copper.