I have very unique installation situation where I have a single hAP AC Lite (RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC-US) that's configured with wlan1 as an uplink (mode=station) and wlan2 as the AP. Everything works great, except I also need to be able to connect a single 2.4GHz only client device to the network but my uplink must also be 2.4GHz so I'm left with only 5GHz for the AP. The two devices are less than 24 inches apart, but the 2.4GHz client does not support any other form of connectivity.
Since there is a USB port on the RB952 I'm thinking I could get a USB wifi adapter and add an additional wireless interface to the hAP AC Lite, but have never needed to do so before. Is anyone familiar with some cheap but reliable USB wireless interfaces which will just plug and play in the RB952?
Please no random suggestions of adding additional routers or changing the hAP AC Lite for something else, this is an off grid marine installation that has both space and power budget requirements, and also wired requirements that necessitate 10/100Mbps interfaces as 1Gbps copper ports are not supported (MFD displays are networked using 4 wire half duplex ethernet cables).
On a related note, the more or less now defunct Woobm-USB devices would be great little external wireless adapters for very short distance connectivity like this if MikroTik was able to repurpose them with new firmware (I saw defunct because the web terminal functionality has not worked for me in a couple of years on any web browser I've tried, and hasn't seen a firmware update in years, so the device is now almost useless)