However, its dual PCB antennas don’t seem to perform quite as well as the AirRouter’s rubber duck. The hAP has MIMO 2.4GHz band radio for mesh access, compared to the single chain AirRouter. The good news is the hAP seems to protect itself from damage.

I attempted to power a Nanostation M2 off the dtd port but the output would fault out from excessive current draw before the NS finished booting. Microtik specs the output as 2 volts less than the input to it may not be too useful with a 12v input. Note that POE output is currently configured on in the firmware by default. The hAP offers POE output on the dtd port.

The hAP has twice the RAM is the AirRouter which comes in handy if you use it for tunneling.

However, there are some significant differences, most of them favorable. They both have the WAN port broken out as well as LAN on 1-3 and dtd on 4, so you won’t need a managed switch. AREDN has recently added support for the MikroTik hAP lite in the nightly build.Īt first glance this device seems to be very similar to an AirRouter node.

Mikrotik hap lite