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about netinstall pro tips - my tip, get rid of non working netinstall releasees from specific router home sites... took me 3h yesterday to wake my Hap ac3 LTE6 KIT from netinstall downloaded direct from bottom of mikrotiks hap home site, netinstall v7.24.4 tried to bring v7.24.4 npk, but netinstall didnt find router being in netboot mode, after pcaping traffic find out that router tried to communicate with pc but without answer, changing netinstall to v6.49.17 and older didnt make any difference, but suddenly - just like in all before tests - I close 7.24.4 and tried with 7.24.2 and bump! that version of netinstall shows me router in a flash - install goes flawlessly and my router is back online. but I lost 3h of my life to figure this out..
I think Mikrotik should focus on its core business that is networking instead of IoT devices. Don't get me wrong, I like the concept of Claire but I am looking other products and improvements that I see takes forever to get out of the door such as: New Router models (i.e., Refresh of RB5009 with console ports and Wi-Fi 7, new hEX PoE that was spotted few months back on a conference), new switch model options: CRS326 and CRS328 refresh with mGig Ports and PoE, new Wi-Fi 7 WAPs, and new features such as: Physical stacking, Shadow mode (Config sync between 2 devices for active / standby natively instead of emulating it with custom scripts), Micro-segmentation at hardware level without compromising performance (using switch chip with state inspection), IPS functionality, 3rd party VPN native integrations (i.e., Tailscale, NetBird and similar) for ZTNA, SD-WAN, SDN central controller, Dude replacement, etc.
There are many other things that Mikrotik can focus instead of IoT that we are looking but we are not seeing.
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I have a preorder in for the KNOT HL9 at my distributor, I'm very excited to try out Halow from a Mikrotik product! Especially in something outdoor rated, which was something I was sorely missing when I did some testing of the other products based on the Morse Micro chipset, where I had to shove a HalowLink2 in a fiber demarc box with a PoE splitter before putting it on a tower. Not to mention, while the OpenWRT software running on most Halow equipment has been decent enough, RouterOS would be a great improvement.
Some have found out that netinstall of 7.24.4 has a bug which might make it unusable. That's why other versions might work but that one might not.
Proper HA on router level is a must in many mission-critical implementations and there Mikrotik is losing right now. MLAG can be seen as HA solution but it is only for switches. IPS, native VPN solutions, SAML, ZTNA - I am not sure how realistic can these expectations be without appropriate cloud support infrasrtucture.
I am not sure if Mikrotik can be oriented towards this type of market right now. If more WiFi-7 products would come out then this might be a big help. Current state with WiFi-6 is actually not that bad but HA for CAPsMAN is needed.
Quo vadis, Mikrotik?!
We wait for months for new network-gear and you bring up some air-quality-sensor and another PoE-injector?! I have to make the budget for 2027 during these weeks. I searched today(!) for a price of the announced CCR3232 - nothing. But u come up with an air-quaility-sensor. Why not focus on your core business, Mikrotik?
I agree with you and I am sharing my feedback to Mikrotik that there are other more relevant and important features and products that they should be working instead of focusing on Air Quality Sensors (it's a noble idea but there are tons of options on the market already) and I am looking with my feedback how they can push internally the envelop to continue taking RouterOS and their hardware products to the next level!
There are also a "tons of options" of wifi 7 products on the market. TP-Link now even started pre-order for their first wifi 8 product. 
I'd like to see the cap be (or whatever it will be named). A round case which I can mount on wall or ceiling. Not too too big, not cap ax xl. Not giving up hope.
I can't figure out where it's heading.
It almost seems like it's moving from routers to the world of toys.
Don't worry, we are not taking away developers from routers and giving them to Iot. The IoT department is a completely separate entity and those people have no idea what a router is. So we are not sacrificing anything 
I wouldn't brag about it. It's like working for a beef producer without knowledge what a cow is.
But it's not a router producer. It's a IoT branch. That was the whole argument
You’re not taking anything away, but you’re not adding anything either—instead of expanding their staff, you’re hiring for another department. It’s obvious they don’t have enough people; just look at the fiasco with the hAP be3 release—it’s still not available for general sale, only for pre-order.
Well
It seem to me that you can vibe-code IoT, but routing and networking in general are something completely different, you must know what you are doing and in my experience there are less and less people who understand how networks work, especially young people who are supposed to replace us old farts, so it's getting harder to hire new people for that job 
Personally, I’d be interested in a temperature sensor for a server rack with an Ethernet connection, two or three power options, and two or three programmable relay outputs running RouterOS. Maybe even Wi-Fi.
I like SolidRACK as something to put on a desk in the lab for testing, and this 10" version is certainly welcome addition.
What I would like is the ability to connect 2 of those in some kind of open wall mount unit, seems to be easy redesign...
Also many 10" units on the market only have and use half unit screw mounts (in the middle of what this rack has) so it would be nice to have those too...
Perhaps producing drone electronics for modern warfare is more lucrative than building routers and switches 
