if it's realy 4x 1.8ghz then it's a shame why they only use 1Gb ports on such a powerfull device, that's overkill.
The RB4011 and RB5009, clocked @1.4ghz have a SFP+, and a 2.5gb port on the RB5009.
if they wanted to make it cheap, with only 1gb ports, why choose a more powerful and probably more expensive CPU ?
Btw, in a plastic case, it's going to be difficult to dissipate heat if it runs at 4x 1.8ghz
Because of AX, you need a CPU that supports it or rather expensive PCIe cards.
CPU itself has one 2.5/10G port, but they did not use it.
Despite the clock, CPU is low power and not hard to cool at all.
I have a bunch fo IPQ807x series which are more power hungry and with a decent heatsink they are all cool
Only if NSS offloading were available (and/ or with better switch drivers).
ipq807x and ipq601x are higher spec than mt7622bv+mt7915 on paper and offer more potential, but unleashing it all will be considerably more difficult and take longer.
They're popping up in batches every couple of weeks. I was able to grab a hAP ax3 from roc-noc.com earlier this month, $160 shipped. They had a batch of about 70, sold out now. Pretty solid little device so far.
I am very novice regarding networking and started the journey 2 months ago, bought an hAP ax3 from Getic, with fast delivery, and around 150 euros including shipping. It is very well built.
I bought it with the intention to use it with openWRT but only noticed that it is not supported when I sat down to install it.
RouterOS is not too bad but I would be very happy if there would be an option to install openWRT on it. If there is something I can help with, I will do my best to support the work.
You could save the RouterOS support dump supout, copy it to your computer, and decode it.
The supout file has some device-specific data (serial & MAC addresses), and the exported settings (your Wi-Fi config), which you generally want to remove before you share it externally.
dropdown example finding & replacing supout device-specific parts
You can find your serial and MAC address on the box it came in, or in RouterOS under /system routerboard print, and /interface ethernet print.
Example for an old hapac2 supout I have (where ef:c4 are the third-last and second-last part of my MAC address, and C6140 is the start of this serial). The file number prefix will change.
grep --files-with-match --color --binary-files=text -iE '(ef:?c4:?[[:xdigit:]]{2}|C6140)' *
01_.debug
03_.proc
04_.startup
05_.livetrace
10_export
12_ethernet
13_switch
24_bridge
45_routerboard
47_wireless
48_wirelessdump
# replace these identifiers with A's
sed -i -E -e 's/EF(:?)C4(:?)/AA\1AA\2/g;s/ef(:?)c4(:?)/aa\1aa\2/g;s/C6140/AAAAA/g;' *
# check that worked
grep --files-with-match --color --binary-files=text -iE '(ef:?c4:?[[:xdigit:]]{2}|C6140)' *
If this is a configured device, you will want to look through and clean up the 10_export file, or just delete it.
Then share the decoded, cleaned-up supout export files with us, and we can get a better look at how things work.