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

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: 5

October 22, 2022

Great product, a pleasure to use.

I bought it back in the summer of the 13th and to this day the model is relevant and optimal for many cases. I must say, I don’t really understand why everyone complains about the complexity of the setup - Quick Set was in ROS even before the release of this piece of iron and everything is there for simple Internet setup, just knowing English is enough to understand what is hidden under that menu item -_-.
In general, by the nature of its activity, the piece of iron is irreplaceable - vpn clients don’t seem to be configured anywhere else so quickly and simply, and sometimes I have to switch between a dozen tunnels a day.
Separately, it should be said that the piece of iron is ideal for all sorts of experiments - firstly, there is a Safe mode in which the settings are automatically rolled back, and secondly, even if you accidentally ruined the firmware (pulling out the power at the wrong time, for example), then the router has a flashing mechanism with a third-party utility and it works great .

Pros

Wide functionality (802.1Q, a bunch of vpn tunnels, traffic shaping, pbr, a bunch of network monitoring tools, mpls, bgp, ospf and a bunch of everything else), powerful wifi, enough power to pump 100Mbps torrents, stability without overclocking at altitude, reasonable price .

Cons

Insufficient power for traffic shaping (produces something like 60Mbps via torrents with 12 QOS rules and packet mangling), lack of hardware nat (there is a fasttrack, but this is not quite right), power and cooling is not enough for stable operation in overclocked mode (overclocking is supported at up to 750 MHz with a base of 600, it works stably at 650), the lack of hardware acceleration of encryption and, accordingly, low performance with it.