Comment by mrweasel
1 day ago
I have a bit of a soft spot for Mikrotik, but I can't help feel like their hardware only exists to sell training.
For our house I tried a Mikrotik, a TP Link and a Ubiquiti AP. The only one that really works in our case is the Ubiquiti. Also for a home that's mostly Apple hardware, you kinda need a manage wifi solution, because Apples WIFI stack have issues switching between APs and needs a controller to kick you off (I don't know if that's still the case). Ubiquiti have one of the only routers that will force Apple hardware to switch APs. Mikrotiks CAPsMAN isn't even really a WIFI/AP controller, it's just provisioning.
For all it's flaws, I still really want to just run 100% Mikrotik gear.
RouterOS 7 with the wifiwave2 package supposedly improves on this by (finally) supporting 802.11r/k/v for roaming between APs.
I don't have any mikrotik hardware new enough to support it so I haven't tried it myself yet and documentation is (as usual) pretty lacking, but like you I want to believe.