My review/experience with the MikroTik hAP ax³

Hey guys, long time now see indeed! Hope you all have been keeping well! I've been using the MikroTk hAP ax³ as my home router and AP for nearly the last month and I just wanted to post something of a mini review and cover my own experience with using the new ax series. Hope you enjoy and please let me know if there is anything at all about MikroTik that you would like more information or in the comments.

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🕘Timestamps🕘
📕00:00 - Introduction
📕01:09 - hAP ax³ review
📕06:02 - hAP ax³ experience

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[andychess]

Another great video. Thank you for that. I just got the ax3 and am also really happy with it.

[rogejedib]

I just received mine a few days ago. I am still playing with the configuration before I deploy it to replace my existing setup. I am looking forward to more content on this. Thanks.

[DinoelK]

i was thinking where did you "lost" and i show in the channel you had 2 months to upload a video. Great that you are back

[jblow]

Glad to see you back at it! Maybe a tutorial on CAPsMAN with come CAPs? May help out those that want to use it to manage all their AP's.

[nahpungnome]

Nothing will make you realize your network is messed up more than your wife telling you the internet is down.

[possumjenkins]

I love MikroTik. I've been working with them for 10yrs at this point. Process is King. I always drill it into my Jr. Admins. "If you upgrade the ROS, do the FW right after. It is ALWAYS a 2-step process." If someone makes an upgrade it is announced and then someone doublechecks. It saves time when you don't have todo "rabbit hole" troubleshooting. Fix the simple things and worry about the big stuff. My only gripe is they have been shipping new units with ROS7 without a "long-term" OS version available, but Stable works fine for now.

[Anavllama]

Good to see you back. Comments: A wifi tutorial providing a methodical process to configure the wifi from scratch would be invaluable. There are many new settings which are hard to understand. The whole concept of how to deal with Radar DFS is probably a video in of itself. For real world testing did you try OOKLA, curious to see what speeds you get from your laptop. Finally do you recommend running a container such as either Adguard or zerotrust cloudflare tunnel, on a USB stick and if so what size??

[dbjungle]

I would love to see walkthroughs and demonstrations of the coolest uses of Mikrotik devices.

[clintthebus]

Thank you for the awesome content as always. I'm still new to Mikrotik using containers, but it's so interesting. Do you think that it's possible to install Portainer or Zamaad helpdesk as a container on a Mikrotik device?

[moldarion]

I would love to see some wifiwave2 capsman content. Especially managing multiple SSIDs with separated VLANs.

[TheseBytes]

Super cool dude! I really like the addition of the external antennas. The Mikrotik Cube 60Ghz wireless stuff also comes with a random password on the sticker. Personally I don't like it much, but it is for the better.

[tinkerscustom]

Thanks for this video! Thinking about picking up this router. Any idea how much power it consumes?

[hjoest]

Dear Network Berg,

first thx for your great videos. They helped me a lot in the past.

Regarding the new ax3 devices, I have two questions.

First: Is is possible to deacitvate the LEDs on the ax3 so that the device is completely dark? Looks like this is not working with the ax2...

Second: Could you consider making a video on using capsman with the new ax devices? Mikrotik changed a lot on this topic since they introduced wifiwave2.

Thx for your help!

[pavelperina]

Good video. I'm always asking myself what would I gain by adding extra router, except maybe better wifi signal range, cause I live in 100 years old brick house with 50-60cm think walls in the city center, 2.4GHz band is congested and 5GHz is bad at penetrating walls (plus on docsys modem/router/ap 5Ghz is not stable and usually stops working after two days). I already have some "server" running a few podman containers. Other than that, current modem needs factory reset twice a year and port forwarding configuration has terrible ui in which it's not clear which port are on wan side and which are local. And it does not provide DNS. Just a bridge mode or NAT, port forwarding, DHCP and option to turn on/off wifi. And time-based MAC filtering.

[aliancemd]

I bought one of these for my parents with LHG LTE18, because it has external antennas and PoE out. I compared it with my Orbi Pro(SXK80) and the 2.4 GHz had around the same signal strength as Orbi’s main router(internal antenna) but the 5GHz seemed a bit weak. My parents are using it at a villa, reaching ~90-100m distance on 2.4GHz.

[GreatDilla]

can you post a video on wifiwave2? am also using the AX3 but cannot connect wireless devices, whereas they all work with the AC3.

[jonpinkley]

@TheNetworkBerg How well does the vlan-filtering bridge work on the hAP ax³? It doesn't appear that the switch chip allows hardware assist, at least with current ROS. You are probably not configuring different ports in different vlans on the hAP ax³ since you probably have a dedicated external managed switch, but if you have played with vlans, your observations would be interesting. (especially testing two ports in the same vlan, one tagged and one untagged, if this was hardware assisted, it should be wirespeed and not use the CPU since there is no routing involved).

[ciscosd-wan]

Thank you for your Videos, it is helping me a lot.
I got hap az3 and I am facing a bit of issue on configuring the Wi-Fi interface as the design have changed.
Can you give me a hand on this matter, please?

[AlexanderBelikov]

I was a big fan of MT. In august 2022 I bought HAP AC3. Having 11 years of experience I still struggled for 3 months. Wifi clients were reconnecting every 10-60 mins. That was 3 months of grabbing suspicious log entry, googling it, reading through forum threads, applying suggested work arounds. After 3 months of "fun" it finally stopped pissing me off. I do love MT, but wifi in them is just junk. Any tplink just works out of the box. My next setup will be some MT + tplink access points.