Review on Mikrotik RouterBOARD 951Ui-2HnD RB951Ui-2HnD: High-Power 2.4Ghz Wireless AP with 5x10/100 Ports and OSL4 by Wiktor Prusek ᠌

Name: Mikrotik RouterBOARD 951Ui-2HnD RB951Ui-2HnD: High-Power 2.4Ghz Wireless AP with 5x10/100 Ports and OSL4
Item: Mikrotik RouterBOARD 951Ui-2HnD RB951Ui-2HnD: High-Power 2.4Ghz Wireless AP with 5x10/100 Ports and OSL4
Rating: 4

May 03, 2023

What you need, a cool purchase, I advise you.

The MikroTik hAP lite (RB941-2nD) model out of the box also suffered from a sudden reboot, but on all those offered at the office. The firmware site works flawlessly. Now it works properly on WebFig v6.33.3 (stable).
The computer must be connected to the second port, otherwise it may lose the ability to connect both via ip and via winbox.

There was a comment that the router did not configure itself out of the box for the provider, I had the same thing, even if your provider has auto settings, read the manuals on how to register the gateway! After adding the gateway in manual mode, everything worked for me, although the speed was initially cut terribly - despite the provider's auto settings.

Pros

Wi-fi speed could not be tested on the latest laptop with N protocol support, but tablet phones work many times faster than on d-link dir300nru, the speed strongly depends on the type \ brand \ model - the most connected device (the Sony phone showed a higher speed than various samsung tablets / smartphones) over the cable, the speedtest gave out 70\50, while the smartphone showed 35\28 via wi-fi, samsungs 25\18 megabits. Breaks through walls well. The processor of the router showed a load of 16% when downloading a dozen torrents at a total speed of 10 megabytes! At the same time, ping to the router is 1-3, unlike d-link dir300nru where ping can jump from 15 to infinity. Good processor. Full of RAM, just enough for the home.

Cons

Smells like burnt plastic. There is a speaker and it beeps when it reboots. I hope that it was only me who got married, but it is constantly overloaded even out of the box. It can work stably for days, but if you turn off the power, it falls into a cyclic reboot and cannot boot. Reboot with a button, reboot by closing contacts, flashing through netinstall, to different versions from the site, did not lead to anything, it is flashed from the 10th time, and still beeps and reboots. Sometimes it calms down after 5 hours of reboots and works until the power is turned off, after all over again.