Review on MikroTik hAP AC Lite Tower RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC Wireless RouterBoard by Wiktor Fokt ᠌

Name: MikroTik hAP AC Lite Tower RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC Wireless RouterBoard
Item: MikroTik hAP AC Lite Tower RB952Ui-5ac2nD-TC Wireless RouterBoard
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

The best price for such a product, I will buy more!

Not a review, but a first impression.
So, the first serious piece of iron in my house. Before that, tlinks, provider routers, etc. I bought it for 2 reasons: I wanted to experiment with a bunch of settings and real stability. I realized that it is possible to overpay a thousand for this (and similar routers from other companies are about a thousand and cheaper) - I did not regret it. I hope the vaunted reliability of Mikrotiks is not a myth)
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Pros

Just a huge number of settings - you can configure everything that can be configured in your home router) Beautiful. Strict, stylish, not ashamed to put in a prominent place. Tower or horizontal box - put it how you want. Beats fine. There is enough for a three-ruble note in the socket, but back to back. Three days of testing behaves normally, without failures - in general. Ping in different applications decreased by 3-5ms (a trifle, but nice). Configuration options: WinBox utility, console, web interface (essentially a copy of Winbox). Ports 8-pin, shielded. There was no way to check the real speed over the air, but at 5GHz it calmly gives out the 90 Mbit / s declared at the rate (from the built-in antennas, I did not understand anything). There is a belief that firmware on it will be released for a long time. Loads fast.

Cons

I decided to set up something more than Quick Setup gives - be ready to master the skills of setting up telecom equipment at the level of at least an amateur. Even simple things are implemented quite complicated and not always logical. The console interface is less convenient than the same Cisco IOS (but at least it is, unlike the banal Linux console with vim in OpenWRT). IGMP Proxy did not start - I had to do IPTV through a bridge. Antennas are internal only. All ports are tied to one switch. The variant of the router with gigabit ports costs twice as much.

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