MikroTik has announced a new dual band Wi-Fi 7 router: the
hAP be lite, product code A42G-HbeP. And it's a bargain with a list price of only US$79.
Specifications include a dual core 32-bit ARM processor running at 950 MHz, 512MB of RAM, 128MB of flash, a MediaTek-based wireless chipset (good for possible future OpenWrt support), one 2.5GBASE-T port, three 1000BASE-T ports, and power input via a USB-C connector instead of a proprietary DC connector. MikroTik includes a USB-C power adapter in the package. This model does not include any USB-A or USB-C ports for attaching accessories such as a USB thumb drive, and it does not support any form of PoE in or out.
The hAP be lite's 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz radios support 2 spatial streams each, and MLO is also supported. Please note that the specifications indicate up to 2,882 Mb/s (physical rate) on the 5 GHz radio, but that's with 160 MHz channel width. We don't have any non-DFS 5 GHz Wi-Fi channels in Singapore that wide, so that transmission rate is generally unrealistic even if you are allowed to configure such a wide channel in the Singapore regulatory domain. More realistic is 1,442 Mb/s (physical data rate, 80 MHz wide channel), and then overheads and other losses will accrue from there.
Both this new hAP be lite and the previously announced
hAP be3 Media (list price US$179) are currently out of stock. For some reason MikroTik has taken longer than expected to get the hAP be3 Media delivered to customers.
