alt Hacker NewsMikrotik routers are cheap, very stable and highly configurable. Admittedly the learning curve is a bit rough, but in today’s age of agentic assistance, you can just have your LLM help you configure it.
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... and kind of slow. I've recently looked at Mikrotik hAP be lite (A42G-HbeP ) [1] and noticed only 2315.1 Mbps for 25 bridge filter rules or 1430.3 Mbps for 25 ip filter rules.
I also heard a horror story about RouterOS coming with an insecure configuration by default, lots of open ports and services running which were recently affected by a vulnerability. Speaking of RouterOS do I have to also buy a license along with the hardware? How about updates?
If you don't understand it, high chance LLM will leave with an open firewall.
The learning curve being a bit rough is massive understatement. It's not meant for not computer savy people.
I bought ~15 of their cheapest 2.4ghz router to connect payment terminals ~4 years ago and it was a terrible mistake. I thought for a low bandwidth application with the router being decently close it would work fine.
Spent days trying to make it work (it would work, then lose the connection, roaming was probably an issue too) and in the end leased meraki hardware that worked fine.
I'd avoid their cheap tier of AP at least.