MikroTikhAP AC RouterBoard, Triple Chain Access Point 802.11ac (RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT-US)

First, let me say that this router has no trouble handling most modern broadband speeds. I suppose if your connection is faster than 1 Gb/s, you'll need some exotic network hardware to take advantage of it so keep looking.I received occasional notices from my cable provider that they had increased my connection speed, but I couldn't seem to connect much faster than about 20 Mb/s. Thought I had a computer issue, but my new work laptop that connected at 60 Mb/s at work ran at only 20 here. On a hunch, I briefly connected it directly to the modem. Bang! 100 Mb/s as advertised.Turned out the culprit was my router. It was a few years old, though not exactly pre-historic. Since we use various Mikrotik routers and switches at work, I decided to order this one from Amazon. Night and day difference!The basic setup (Quick Set) is quite simple if you've set up a router before. Put in your passwords, change the IP if you like and go. For anything more advanced (e.g. port forwarding and the like) you go to the WebFig tab or use the (free) WinBox software. It's a bit more tweaky than the usual consumer stuff, but it wasn't that bad to learn, even for an old guy like me.The throughput is fast, we haven't had any crashes or lockups. The dual-band WiFi covers my small house nicely but not much signal outside. Maybe that's not a bad thing; keeps the neighbors out of it. If you need more coverage, these can be daisy chained together as one port supports POE. Mikrotik also makes a higher powered router /access point.There are plenty of forums online where one can find Mikrotik support. Most of the questions I had had already been asked and answered. One thing I found a bit surprising is in a world where everything comes from China, Mikrotik is made in Latvia.

First off it was shipped from latvia. Shipping estimate said it would take 5-10 days. It was delivered and in my hands on the 3rd day! 3 days in and I'm a fan for life. I'm a network/IT guy and have known about mikrotik for years but I never bought the gear. Huge mistake! I've wasted money on several highly rated consumer routers from linksys, netgear, etc. And they worked OK but couldn't reach all parts of my house, also I work from home and VPN into work. Not sure if it was a memory issue but I'd have to reboot the routers every day or two and even though I wasn't passing much data it seemed to slow the whole network when I was vpnd in or when my kid was downloading a game on his Xbox. This issue has completely gone away. He was downloading a game last night and I was streaming a show with zero buffering. Also I get paid to manage network equipment.... This thing is as configurable as any enterprise grade router/VPN/switch/firewall and then some. So to do a quick and dirty they have a quick config page. It allows you to co figure all the basics and some nice haves. Set the wifi ssid and password, network IP, dhcp ranges, admin password, even setup a pptp(client to site) server in 3 seconds with free "auto setup" dynamic dns, basically you check a box and type a password, it gives you your hostname for remote access. I've looked through the settings, and one day I may want a socks proxy or to run mpls/vpls or GRE or whatever but I'm good for now. And probably will have a need to go further though I probably will for fun at some point.and did I mention almost full bars in nearly all parts of my house, no bad or failed connections anywhere.

Installed the router yesterday to replace my Cisco 1841 that had a loud fan. So far I am pleased. I would even go as far as to recommend this as a consumer router as it comes configured well enough out of the box to not even needing to login, save for changing the wifi keys maybe and the admin password.I needed to change the inside IP prefix to avoid renumbering my home devices that have static IPs and that was a bit scary if only for the reasons that since there is no console, changing the IP kicks you out of the router and if you do it wrong, you are SOL. With that said, I don't know if the "reset button" on the side resets the config to defaults.I had to mess around a bit with understanding how the DHCP ties in, but it's super similar to Cisco after grasping the terminology.IPv6 was odd. I'm not sure if that was a result of the software update I did, but the package was disabled after software update. To enable it, I had to reload the router and then everything was fine.So, in summary, default config is good enough for average consume. Changing things is a bit tricker than your regular linksys and as others stated, you need to know what you are, at least, trying to do, leave alone doing. Luckily the documentation is solid and plenty of forum results to answer all of my questions or at least set me on the right path (most of which was just grasping under which sub menu a given setting is).