Review on Gigabit Wireless AP RB951G-2HND 💻 Mikrotik with 1000mW Power and 5 Ports by Swami Nathan ᠌

Name: Gigabit Wireless AP RB951G-2HND 💻 Mikrotik with 1000mW Power and 5 Ports
Item: Gigabit Wireless AP RB951G-2HND 💻 Mikrotik with 1000mW Power and 5 Ports
Rating: 2

October 22, 2022

The quality is at zero, very sting of the money spent.

In fact, setting up a router is not as scary as some commentators describe. But! Provided that the administrator knows what options he needs and simply ignores all the others. By default, the separation of ports into WAN (first) and LAN (all others) is already configured, a bridge is configured, and there are also basic firewall settings.

I bought a router to replace the old Asus, flashed OpenWrt. Mikrotik Router OS loses a lot to OpenWrt in terms of usability. And I would not say that it wins a lot in terms of really necessary options.

In the bottom line, most home and office users will have enough opportunities and standard router firmware for the same Asus, Zyxel and others like them. I don’t see much point in messing with Mikrotik Router OS and equipment that is set to emit radiation in microwave mode, and not a home router. Therefore, Mikrotik products have been and remain niche.

Pros

1GB ethernet. 5 independent ethernet ports, which, if desired, can be configured / divided / demarcated as you like. It can do much more than the pre-installed OS of most other routers for the same money.

Cons

By default, the power was turned on at almost 30 dBm! The option to change the power is not offered on the quick settings page and is hidden in the bowels of the Wireless settings (which is reasonable if adequate default settings were set). Not only does such power require registration on the territory of the 2022, it is simply unhealthy. I'm giving it a two just for that. The web interface is a forest of settings. Perhaps, demanding corporate users need at least a quarter of these settings, for most home and office users for whom this router is positioned, you need to change 20 options at most. For a little more demanding - 50. Why it was impossible to drive rarely used options under the Advanced options tab is completely incomprehensible.