I love this part. It is a very great tool for WiSPs.
Wishes:
More Rugged, More ports, Holder for Zipties to fasten cables inside the housing,
+1 on more ports. Four POE-out ports give you a PTP in, a PTP out, and two sectors, not quite enough. If MikroTik offered a weatherproofed POE out switch, I could make do if I had to, but one box is always handier.
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Why not make it in a QRT sized case - would have a nice high gain antenna, and plenty of space for more ports.
Also, add a few diodes inside so that PoE-out ports can alternatively be used as redundant PoE-in (powered from a few customers in a building, sharing a common CPE).
(or are MOSFETs used nowdays as PoE-out switches, which already have these diodes built-in - haven’t tried this on Omnitik/Powerbox yet).
I love the Powerbox but it really limits where we can use it with only 5 ports. On even a small site we have a BH, 3 APs, Site Monitor. We’re full with the bare minimum of devices. We’re typically doing Ubnt and Cambium APs - roughly 4 watts per port.
8/10/12 ports would be a huge jump in use from us.