Which MT device provides fastest wifi connectivity?
More specifically, which has the best receive capability (sensitive, but discriminating – sounds good, right?):
Assuming the “ax” over the “ac” versions:
wAP ax
hAP ax3
cAP ax
I don’t have a plan for these other to play around and test and use for wireless sniffing. It may find a permanent home at some time.
From those 3, wap AX since it allows for 160MHz channels (if you can use it within your environment. I can 
).
Is there another MT wifi device not in my list of 3 that you would recommend over the wap AX?
My only hesistation with the wAP is the directionality.
hAP is definitely the most versatile…
wAP ax works fine in my use case and it’s smaller than cAP ax. Just put them in the corner and you covered the whole room.
If you can mount AP on the ceiling then I would go with cAP ax. If not then wAP ax could be a good choice. Ooorr… hAP ax2 for eg. could be used as AP as well. Smaller than ax3 but still provides good wireless
For versatility I would also go for AX2 but … it has no usb port.
Just netinstalled 5 cap ac ( ros and wifi-qcom-ac) using container on AX3.
First time right on each occurrence.
In what way?
I don’t know my use case, but keeping in mind the directionality is important. The 7db gain is great, if that matches the use case.
I’ve never worked with a cAP, as I don’t have much call for ceiling mounted (I did use a bunch of Ubiquity LR6 ceiling mounted, and it showed me that ceiling mounted (when appropriate) has great advantages (i.e., not a lot things that could wind up touching or blocking the line of site to a ceiling mounted device).
Are you saying that the hAP ax2 is more versitile than the hAP ax3? If so, how?
I’d love to hear what netinstalled “using container on AX3” means?
Is there a difference in quality in the overall wifi (the RF side of things) between any of these?
They use different wifi chip sets, and have different antenna configurations, so I suspect their RF performance differs.
Wifi 7 devices.
You figured me out!
I’m ordering all the Mikrotik wifi 7 equipment in stock everywhere to corner the market.
Should be shipping in a few years.
Try to fit an AX3 in your backpack. Or simply move it around to another place.
Those big ears make it a bit less handy for that.
Simple.
See here: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/guide-running-netinstall-server-on-a-tik/161056/1
can we make capsman with CAP AX and Wap AX ? thanks
Sure, why not ?
thanks, another question Wap AX support max 2400 Mbit/s, while it only have 2Ge.
It’s very strange
Actually, that’s 2 separate gigabit ethernet ports.
It may seem strange but you will rarely get there.
That 2400Mbit/s is the physical data rate. Has little to do with the actual throughput (though higher data rate usually results in higher throughput).
Rule of thumb: roughly 50% of data rate is what you can maximum see as throughput.
But then the device needs to go somewhere else with what it received on that wifi channel. So it goes out via ethernet (usually).
And there you have a limit of Gb ethernet connections (which, let’s be honest) is PLENTY for an access point …
Really, I don’t understand why everyone wants the fastest and the biggest and most are using what ? 10% of it ?
What is the throughput you get with a 160Mhz channel and a good client?
With Hap ax3 (supports up to 80Mhz channel) I get with Ookla speedtest app on Samsung S23 886Mbps Down and 280Mbps up.
PC with intel AX211, so it supports 160Mhz-wide channels.
About 940-950Mbps using iperf3 to internal iperf container, which are normal values for a 1Gb link.
So the limit is the ethernet port, I guess.