Where is the Audience AX?

Should Mikrotik make an Audience AX?

  • Yes & with LTE/5G
  • Yes & don’t care about LTE/5G
  • Perhaps
  • No
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One of the better Mikrotik devices is the Audience – especially with newer wifi-qcom-ac drivers. Yet, all the other models have been “refresh” & no sign of newer Audience on the horizon (i.e. based the FCC filing).

My main grips in current model (specifically Audience+LTE6 model) are:

  • lack of PoE IN+OUT so it can be used to passthrough power to another router (or even just accept PoE power), today there is no PoE support which is limiting for AP usage.
  • Global 5G modem and/or M.2 modem slot for one
  • The current LTE antennas are pretty poor (while Wi-Fi one are best-in-class IMO) so some 4x4 MIMO antenna for LTE/5G, and/or SMA/QMA jacks for an external LTE/5G antenna — there are 4 sides to the audience so seems possible to use 4x4 MIMO…

I cannot be alone in wanted a newer Audience, including with LTE/5G support. The current Audience is limited to LTE6 and poor band support in North America.

I don’t understand why mikrotik doesn’t have some kind of roadmap… I would like to se ATL but 5G version… Is that so hard ??

Wait … Mikrotik has a roadmap?

I’d love to buy an Audience ax or two as long as it’s as good as current Audience (I simply love it).

Everyone likes the Audience, at least since first wifiwave2 driver. I just ordered more, which had me checking the FCC, and thus this post. It’s actually the vlan assignment in AX drivers that bigger issue for me than AX specifically & some better antenna design for LTE/5G (since it doesn’t even match wAPac which AFAIK uses same antennas internally).

But it’s a really nice device, yet I see every other device getting a refresh, except the Audience… So I wanted to get in my minor complaints, since hopefully one is horizon at some point. :wink:


Don’t ask me… They’re scared of commitment?

I take some different SKUs with North American variant of LTE modems, beyond the original R11e-LTE6. Even the current ATL is worthless in North America – even for just 4G… And all the 5G products are worthless too.

How long did it take for wap AX to come out ?

Let’s assume they are working on it.

Well, the wAPac also had LTE variants – which have not come out… I just don’t want the same thing on some Audience AX, since our use case generally involve having LTE/5G. And they’ve done nothing for the US market. Basically everything lately has taken backwards steps IMO:

  • hAPac2 to hAPax2 loses USB
  • wAPax does not have miniPCIe/M.2 option
  • newer CAT18/5G Chateau/ATL with 0 bands for US
  • etc.

And current Audience has one additional benefit that it has 128MB flash, while same is not true for newer devices…

Toooo long… And on top of all… They are releasing WiFi6 products while other companies already released WiFi7 devices.

Also more and more phones supports WiFi7… Also… Outdoor 5G is a must…

ax lineup is fine now, you have plenty of devices to choose from.

Also their controller they are working on… No information whatsoever… Is it happening, what’s the status on that ? Nothing…

You know what they say: assumption is mother of all f**ups. So let’s not assume anything … not with Mikrotik :wink:

Instead of Audience AX or cAP be, it will be cAP with LTE : https://mt.lv/cap_ax_lte12pdf

Uh ??

cAPaxLTE12 PDF shows PoE passthrough. But no 2nd 5Ghz radio, doesn’t sit on a desk/shelf/etc, and another 4G EU-only modem…

Also, there was another thread after mine showing a new KNOT, ATL, and some “LMP 5G”:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/mikrotik-5g-hardware-roadmap/180666/1

It’s actually quite frustrating – if someone can post roadmap PDF on Twitter… I have no idea why Mikrotik cannot post them on their website/forum. Or how to sign up for these communications with these PDFs.

There is PoE IN in the current generation. POE Out, IMO, is less important than more LAN ports, which would be a really nice replacement for switches near APs.

i have one and i like it very much
but
maybe was not a so successful product, i buy mine at a heavy discount at a distributor because of low sales