Just installed Winbox 3. Two comments:
When I launch it, even if I do nothing else with it, it eats up one entire CPU until I quit it. It does what I ask it to, but my fans rev all the way up and it acts like it’s mining bitcoins in the background. I’m running it on a Mac under Parallels, as I have always run winbox. I’m assuming this is the new “neighbors” function, set a little too aggressively?
I’m a little disappointed in the implementation chosen for the groups feature. I had envisioned a folder setup, so that when collapsed all my choices would fit on one screen without scrolling, and I could just “drill down” to the router I wanted, again with a minimum of scrolling. Now either I still have to scroll, or I have to click a pulldown, click a box, type a group expression, and click a filter button, which is a lot more busy work. Plus, you have to click in the router area (select a router you don’t really want) at least once to activate scroll-wheel scroll, which may be a limitation of Windows (on the Mac, you get used to being able to wheel-scroll wherever the mouse is hovering, and I get caught short every time this fails to happen).
Groups as they are implemented are actually even more usable if you treat them as keywords. I can name a device’s “group” with its location, tower, and AP/CPE/or other function, then pull up all the units on a tower, all the units in a town, all the CPEs, and so on. So it’s still a good feature, and if you ever wanted to add the folder thing on top of it, they wouldn’t get in each other’s way.