old MIPS had trouble with wifi performance because the CPU often times wasn’t fast enough to shuffle wifi frames through br0/ethernet and back. hap ac² and and cap ac are a more modern ipq4018 chipset, not super powerful but a lot better than ancient MIPS. hap ac CPU is oooold and slow I wouldn’t recommend MIPS-BE Mikrotik stuff in 2021. I get about twice more throughput/performance with nano hd and u6-lr than I do with hap ac² (which is supposed to be similar to cap ac). This is similar to HP/Aruba or Ruckus (regular enterprise, not unleashed) gear.

Mikrotik with capsman, does support moving the data path for APs into the tunnel (as well as keeping it on VLANs) which removes the probability of dropped ethernet frames as your switches converge.

OpenWRT support is pretty complete - if you know what various configuration options in the UI mean you can enable the features sensibly.Īlso, some versions of Android have bugs with WPA3 used in combination with 802.11r (iirc?), where a phone would get stuck mid roaming. Four core 716MHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 5xGigabit Ethernet, PoE out on port 5, RouterOS L5 99.

So Mikrotik doesn’t support as many various roaming extensions as Ubiquiti or Openwrt. I’m curious about how well the device roaming works with mikrotik stuff too

Routerboard upgrade