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

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: 3

October 22, 2022

Performs its functions, nothing unusual.

Perhaps a large batch of marriage has spilled onto the market, and perhaps almost all the positive reviews are written by fans of this company, for whom rich functionality is more important than some non-working functions.
It is enough to enter in the search "mikrotik 951 wifi falls off" or something like that to make sure that the problem is not one-time. If earlier the topic was discussed a little, now the entire Internet is full of it, it is found on almost all generations of firmware, I didn’t fool around with the firmware, tk. I didn't see that it helped anyone. Personally, my opinion is that this is some kind of flaw.
As a result, I had to solve the problem with WiFi by connecting in series the old Zyxel router, which distributes Wifi.

ate 2022: There were attempts to comment on my review, but due to bad advice, they were removed. I solved the problem with Wi-Fi in my own way, which I did not find anywhere, although I tried a lot.
So, in my case, flashing from version 5.26 to the latest 6. X, which was available in the "auto-ate" mode, helped me. For reliability, I set the channel width to 20 MHz, the automatic frequency selection mode (which finally appeared), and also did not forget about signal power regulation. After flashing Wi-Fi, as they changed it, it began to work stably, the speeds increased.
The found solution to the problem does not cancel everything written earlier, because the flashing process was accompanied by hemorrhoids. By the way, firmware version 5.26 is still available for download as a basic one, in principle, except for Wi-Fi, everything worked well.

Pros

Low price, rich functionality, gigabit ports. The possibilities for setting up the device are very wide, some "buns" are frankly pleasing, such as scripts.

Cons

There are a number of problems that have not yet been resolved. To begin with, I would like to note that without a bottle and good instructions, it is unrealistic to set up something in it. Then, with WiFi, it’s just some kind of flour, from time to time the traffic just stops, you have to reconnect from the device, no matter how much you searched for solutions on the Internet, there really isn’t any help. A bunch of articles, I tried to change all the settings, you can only do worse, in no article the proposed measures are confirmed by people. It seems that the device has a Wifi scanner, a powerful adjustable transmitter, a lot of settings, and as a result, the Wifi speed floats in the tests. Perhaps the problem is only with apple devices, but this does not make it easier for me. Further, there are problems with some network devices over Ethernet, for example, the UV-AT101 Voice Gateway from onlime, it works fine if it is placed in front of the router, and not after the router, the port speed on Mikrotik is set to 10 Mbps, as a result, the Internet speed suffers. If you rearrange it the other way around, then the voice gateway is not always registered at the "station", it did not dig much into the problem. I remembered, I also wanted to get confused with the script for backing up the config to email, but it doesn’t work normally, because. cannot count it to the end, again a fairly well-known glitch. The latter is treated by a complete flashing of the device, and it is necessary to use the "correct tambourine", while also scoring.