MikroTik - hAP ax³

I agree with mikrotik, take a look at their hAP ax3 if you want an all in one device.

I was disappointed to find that the UDR7 only supports 2x2 MIMO. After considering this, I’ve decided to stick with my MikroTik hAP ax3, which allows me to achieve speeds of 850-900mbps when nearby and around 400-500mbps at a distance. PD: from what I’ve seen the UDR7 has a Mediatek chipset instead of Qualcomm.

I've got two ax3's and a hapac2 running capsman and it works pretty seamlessly for me. When I look at the logs I can see devices roaming occasionally, especially phones.

MikroTik HAP ac3 or ax3. Either one is good. It just depends on your budget. These are reliable routers.

[MikroTik hAP ax³](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1872028-REG/mikrotik_c53uig_5hpaxd2hpaxd_us_hap_ax3_2_4_5ghz_wifi.html) It’s what I recommend to everyone. It’s a solid device that has great reliability.

Nope! It’s running full RouterOS.

I can recommend mikrotik routers. I had some cheap devices from them lasting for more than 10 years (bought them in university to have something to put theory in practice). if you are limited to a single device, I can recommend the hap ax 3, using it as my daily driver for more some time. I would recommend to split router and access point. On mikrotik.com, you will find performance measurements for each mikrotik router. Mikrotik has a had history with WiFi, their pre WiFi 6 accesspoints are not that stable. Since WiFi 6 (the models with ax in its name), for me the WiFi reliability is good (YMMV). You may also try to reuse your tplink router as accesspoints, it might reduce the load on it

If you like to tinker I'd recommend mikrotik stuff - AX2 or AX3. But you really should like to tinker, they're not trivial if you get outside of the default config. They can do pretty much anything the enterprise routers and APs can do(even wifi roaming if you have a few). TP-link ones are ok if you don't want to spend time configuring. If you're doing <=1G wire speeds, wifi 7 won't give you any benefits over wifi 6/6e. Most enterprise wifi7 equipment does 10G, sometimes even with optics. For what you need, i'd get a <100$ wifi6 tp-link router, and not worry that much about future proofing, because of the price.

Mikrotik has good components, build quality and very long software support, but configuration is a little complicated. hAP ax\^3 should suit your needs. I've been using the hAP ac\^3 (previous generation) for 5 years. IMO software support is really important if you plan to use your router for a long time. New security vulnerabilities are found all the time, not having them patched put your data at risk, and not many consumer router brands push out security updates for 5 year old products. Performance and reliability aren't the only things to consider.

Mikrotik hAP AX3 which doubles as wireless AP and switch for my apartment. SFF Lenovo pc with OPNsense running as VM on top of Proxmos as firewall. Mikrotik RB260GS which I'm gonna use as a switch for my basements as soon as I find how to reset it.

you can add sth like cap AX for WiFi, or go with hap ax3 that has only 5 ports or rb4011 that I wouldnt recommend

Yes + to mikrotik. Been running hap ax3 for and the longest uptime i got is 2 years and 5 months. Only downtime is the freaking auto update of my service provider AT&T which happens once in a blue moon. For reference I’m my AT&T ONT is on bypass by using the bypass script on the mikrotik. So tricking ATT that I’m still using their gateway but its not connected after successfully bootup.