On a recent installation of 7 APs for a shop, I deliberately used cap AC (and square case, I like it a lot more then the round one) with wave2 drivers.
Cap AX was WAY too big there (and wAP AX wasn’t released yet).
Honestly, maybe it’s just my opinion but i have a feeling that cAP ac works better than all of this ax stuff…
I wouldn’t want to go back (from cAP ac to cAP AX to wAP AX). But that is just my opinion 
Maybe your memory is bad, but the old wireless drivers got a lot complaints for years 
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Something like a cAPac also take exacting configuration to work well too… The issue is both ax and ac Wi-Fi rarely “just work” out of the box, while most other vendor you ran a wizard and it works. Mikrotik not so much… so wAPax hardware is not going to fix that problem.
cap ac + wifi-qcom-ac = 
Regarding future proofness:
https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?p=1108989#p1107303
Looking at the system resources and roughly free-memory of 36MB it is IMHO only a matter of time that we may see here similar issues like these: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/v7-16rc-testing-is-released/177857/1
And this 36MB of free memory is not “overconfiguration” at all. It is basically “/system/reset-configuration caps-mode=yes”. Nothing more on it.
My cAP ax and ax2 already found a new home and cAP ax is mounted there as intended, on the ceiling and ax2 acts as a router and capsman controller.
In my house I was unable to mount them on the ceiling or the wall and they are simply too large to be behind TV… So I went with wAP ax, one for each room. I don’t expect nor do I need crazy high wireless speeds on my devices so I believe wap ax will fit nicely here.
@Amm0
With wifi-qcom-ac drivers cap ac works really well. Better than old legacy drivers.
Say what?? Do you mean I can do something new with my old Cap AC ???
You should try it. I’m quite happy with cAP ac, and I also installed one at my mother at law and she didn’t have any complaints so far.
I will, thanks… what did you notice as the improvement over the stock old drivers??
First of all, this is my opinion based on experience with cAP ac and ax, connection is more stable (using WPA2 only) and i have a feeling that range is better.
For eg both cAP ac and ax were on my desk upstairs, close to each other with different channels ofc. Phone and tablet maintained more stable connection on cAP ac.
I didn’t go into details why, maybe tablet and phone sticks to 5 GHz on ax but on ac switch to 2.4 GHz sooner.
Overall i have cAP ac on few locations and with new drivers it’s a great little AP. At least for me.
Totally agree (except for the 2.4GHz preference, haven’t seen that).
And you can run CAPsMAN (new style), @anav! The object oriented implementation
Old or new capsman are conceptually the same.
Are you trying to corrupt seniors??
We need to get on a skype/discord chat so we can discuss losing my capsman virginity.
No offense but it strikes me as odd how you can easily SEE errors in config files w.r.t. VLANs, mangling, firewall, … (and very extensively and fast too !) but you struggle with capsman setup ?
I know right!! My first comment is that wifi = 1/8 of a config (if that) , as soon as one invokes capsman wifi=2/3 of a config.
Its not clean and effiicient to program or read its friggen BLOATWARE
What bloatware ?
You either split everything out over the required tabs or you can (if you want) put almost everything on the configuration tab and simply apply.
With old capsman it was exactly the same.
Wave2 config and capsman setup is 95% to 99% the same.
You just have to keep in mind (when using Winbox it’s quite visible) that precedence goes from left to right.
If you have the same setting in configuration tab and channel tab, configuration tab wins.
Never too old to lose one’s virginity.
And I would call myself…ehm…senior (as well?).
But…Skype? Really!?
Took a cap AC out of the trash pile. Loaded up the latest stable 7.16.1. My router still has capsman on it so it configured right away.
Bunch of devices connected right away. Got a phone call… was breaking up all over.
Logged into my old as hell wifi camera… one frame every couple of seconds.
The complaining around the house started instantly.
XE3-4 had to be put back in to stop the yelling.
anav… I wouldn’t waste my time with the old hardware.
EDIT : The system was running caps-man v1. As thats what was configured on my router.
Load wifi-qcom-ac drivers on it and then redo your tests.
Agree with @holvoetn, did you try wifi-qcom-ac ? There is significant difference.
To be clear, in my case, i don’t have any wireless network around me as I live in the house and first neighbour is like 20-30 meters from me so no interference from other networks, channels overlapping etc.