The RB951-2n is the home wireless AP you have been waiting for. It has five Ethernet ports and a 802.11b/g/n wireless AP with an antenna built in.
The new, completely waterproof, rugged, and super high powered RouterBOARD Metal. The serious outdoor wireless device. 5GHz 802.11a/n and 1.3W output power
Output power is very good. In most countries it is necessary to comply with the allowable output power.
Unfortunately input Rx sensitivity is the same as the Groove.
The RB751U-2HnD says it has 2x2 MIMO PIF antennas, max gain 2.5dBi. It virtually has no gain in my setup and I used it in a SOHO environment. Is this new RB951-2n better or worst?
Why RB951-2n naming? Is it a new CPU or completely new model? I would give it RB751L-2n or something like that.
RB751U/G doesn’t works stable for me. Its’ wireless performance is not (so) good compared to other SOHO wireless routers. So I don’t know who is the target for this new device. Other SOHO router manufacturers has several 3x3 MIMO devices with 3 external antennas in $40-$100 range; more expensive ones comes with dual band support 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz. I would be happy to see something similar from MikroTik. I would probably buy one of these 3x3 MIMO + external ant routers… but that RB951-2n is something I can’t trust. - not because it’s bad, but due to bad experiences with 751U-2HnD.
Note: I’m still waiting for RB2011 with wireless. It would be nice to add third antenna and chain to that one.
Routerboard Metal sounds fantastic
However, the problem I see with the Metal is the orientation of N-male connector / ethernet port.
Majority of antenna types have a horizontal connector (in properly installed position).
This means that Metal is impossible to mount on such antennas without exposing ethernet port to weather conditions.
Is it possible to rotate N-male connector for 90 degrees in some future model?
Adding externally additional 90’’ n-female_to_n-male adapter really isn’t solution (increased price and probability of weather isolation’s failure due to additional “weak point” in RF chain).
Metal as a new product is a REALLY GREAT IDEA, but in this form we cannot use it without additional 90’’ degrees adapter or RF cable with N connectors and this reduces some of the main advantages of this new routerboard.
Great job, now if you would add 24 volt poe output on the RB951-2 eth1 to power roof equipment you would have the holy grail of solutions. poe for outside equipment, router and access point. and watchdog to reboot router and poe would be awesome!
I was thinking about the same. There are examples on the forum where somebody put poe on regular ports, somebody else used to solder mmcx connectors in place of internal antennas. So I am wondering how difficult it would be to enable poe output on one of the eth ports in RB951, and whether it is possible at all using standard electronic equipment.
If this device had at least one poe output port it could power the Groove or other CPE. It would be the ultimate hype in every enduser’s hardware installation because it has wireless. Or we just wait for RB951UP and RB751GUP.
