Review on 🔁 MikroTik hAP ac2 RBD52G-5HacD2HnD-TC Dual-Band Access Point, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, 5 x Gigabit Ethernet Ports by Travis Karren

I just set up my hotspot and I have to say I'm very disappointed. I wanted a quality access point (no routing) that would receive security updates for years to come. Only time will tell for updates, but the Wi-Fi signal so far is better than my old access point, which I connected to a larger external antenna. The disappointments I had: I'm attaching a case for setting up a simple bridged access point, router configurations only. In the WebFig interface, the Wi-Fi configuration is torn between basic settings, advanced settings, and security settings that reside elsewhere. I also don't like the fact that, as far as I can tell, you have to make a change on one page before moving to another. Sometimes this results in broken glass and the damn thing is out of reach. Ubiquiti does it better. PoE is non-compliant i.e. not 802.3af, this is another passive 24v PoE implementation and I need to figure out what injector I can use so it doesn't blow up the device. The default Wi-Fi settings do not support mobile devices (no real power saving mode). In particular, push notifications on the iPhone do not work. First you need to search for information in long threads on the Mikrotik forum, and then adjust the "advanced" settings. For example, enable WMM, enable multicast buffering, disable keepalive, increase the group rekey period to an hour, and change the DHCP lease time to a little more. It is not possible to increase the beacon period or the DTIM interval. Users have been complaining on the forum for years, why can't Mikrotik set reasonable defaults like every other vendor? All of this leaves a bad taste in my mouth. It feels like Mikrotik has a stubborn notion of how things should work and refuses to accept the reality they want their devices to interact with. Let's see if I can forget about the device for a few years now while it serves or if I hit other snags then it goes in the bin. I hesitated between 3 and 4 stars, I give it when in doubt.