MikroTik RBmAPL-2nD 2GHz mAP lite access point 802.11bgn 2x2 PoE in

The MikroTik mAP Lite is the adorable cousin of the mAP 2n—the one that shows up with half the features, a third of the weight, and still somehow manages to be useful in situations you didn’t see coming. With only a single Ethernet port, you lose a big chunk of the Swiss Army knife tricks the larger mAP can pull off, but what remains is still a shockingly capable lab and field companion. In the right hands, it’s the fastest way to pop up a Wi-Fi network when you’re tired of standing in front of a rack, need to reach gear from across the room, or want to stop leaning over a switch like you’re trying to smell the firmware. In the lab, the mAP Lite earns its keep over and over. Need a quick test SSID to validate DHCP, DNS, or captive portal behavior? Done. Need to figure out what a device is doing before you commit it to the production stack? This thing will happily give you a clean, isolated wireless bubble to experiment in. And the “one Ethernet port” limitation actually simplifies certain workflows—you plug it into something, it becomes the gateway drug for diagnostics. No bridging tricks, no inline MITM setups, just a tiny radio that gives your laptop or tablet the wireless rope it needs to poke at devices hiding behind racks, under desks, or in the dreaded top-of-ladder zone. In everyday tech work, the mAP Lite is basically a get-out-of-jail card for laptops without Ethernet. That single port becomes your emergency NIC, your temporary portal into stranded VLANs, your way to SSH into switches that live in awkward corners of MDFs. It’s not winning any throughput awards and it’s very much a “2.4 GHz only” child, but for powered-from-anything PoE-in convenience and dead-simple portability, it’s a tool that quietly becomes part of your standard kit. It doesn’t replace the full mAP, but it fills a niche you don’t appreciate until you’re on-site, stuck on Wi-Fi-only hardware, and wishing you had just one more wired hop. This is that hop. ⸻ Pros • Tiny, featherweight, and ridiculously easy to toss in any toolkit • Great for lab testing, quick SSIDs, and isolated “what is this device doing?” scenarios • Perfect workaround for laptops with no Ethernet port • PoE-in makes it deployable anywhere a switch or injector exists • Incredibly cheap for the utility it provides Cons • Only one Ethernet port—no bridging, no inline MITM, limited tricks • 2.4 GHz only, with all the crowding and interference that implies • RouterOS depth is still there if you stray beyond simple configs • Throughput capped by both hardware and physics • More limited Swiss Army knife than the full mAP

Amazing little device. I am using it in my garage, connected to my PoE switch (yes, you need a CROSS OVER cable, PoE wont work with a regular ethernet cable). I configured it as a router where traffic from the ethernet is routed and NATed to a wifi client which connects to my BlackVue camera for recording download when my car is parked. Speed is not that great (100 MBits Ethernet -> wifi 2GHz B/G/N with 20 MHz width) gives me around 3.5 MBytes/sec download speed. For my use case is fine, I have the entire night to download the recordings. The alternate Mikrotik wAP ax wont achieve more than 10 MBytes/sec due to BlackVue limitations. Might consider in the future but so far I am happy with the results I have.

Sadly cannot recommend this product. It worked very well as a basic AP for approximately a month when the Ethernet port suddenly stopped communicating with connected devices. After troubleshooting with a variety of network switches and direct connections, I found that I could restore connectivity by disabling auto negotiation and setting for 100Mbps/ Full duplex. This worked well for several more weeks until the issue presented itself again. Unfortunately, it now only communicates when set to 10Mbps which is not acceptable. This is after updating to the latest version of RouterOS. When it worked, it was fantastic. Now essentially useless. Searching forums revealed others have had the same issue.

This router by default comes as a WiFi access point where the internet comes IN via the Ethernet cable and OUT via the Wifi. However, the RouterOS (which is extremely full featured) allows the reverse, which is what I needed in order to use my iPhone as a backup WAN to my home office. In this use case, it's possible to configure it so that the internet come IN via the Wifi (which connects to your phone's hotspot) and OUT via the ethernet to your router. (You need a Dual WAN router to make this work.) In my case, my PepLink Balance One has my cable modem as its primary WAN interface and then I set up my backup WAN interface to point to the ethernet cable coming out of the MikroTik. With this set up, when the cable modem service drops out (which it seems to do every month or so for a hour+ of time), the router now 'fails-over' to the MikroTik which hotspots to my phone. Everything on the network works transparently. So far so good. Far cheaper to go this route for occasional internet drops from a main provider than to get a full backup connection from somebody like Starlink.

This thing is tiny, and can be PoE powered, making it incredibly flexible. I have a remote gate that I wanted to install the highest resolution Ring doorbell, which is unfortunately not the one that has Ethernet support. So, what to do. My wifi signal out to that location is weak, and the doorbell would not reliably allow for two way communication with people at the gate. I had ethernet out there, then found this little guy, and it made for the perfect solution. I put it in a little weatherproof box, sealed the ethernet wire into the box, and powered it with PoE. I stuffed the whole thing in the wall behind the doorbell and it's set to act as a wifi to ethernet bridge with a custom SSID just for my doorbell to use. Now the doorbell has a strong wifi signal six inches away and works flawlessly. The mikrotik has an accessible IP on the internal side of the bridge so I can still manage and update it as needed.

RouterOS is incredible, especially that it can run on such a small device. I'm using it to connect to my phone hotspot and provide a backup WAN connection. The only real cons I see are - Its almost too small (not really a con) - The PoE doesn't work, at least on my switch without a modified cable

Great for the size. I've owned these for over a decade and use them for impromptu wifi access to networks while visiting server rooms. But they have a flaw with the newer intelligent PoE switches. Older HP Procurve switches are fine (Aruba 2530). However it will not power off of newer PoE switches like Unifi and FortiSwitches. Even a crossover cable doesnt help on those switches. So be prepared to power it via USB. Would be 5 stars if it werent for that PoE negotiation issue.

I use the MikroTik RBmAPL‑2nD as a backup WAN on my UniFi router, and it works perfectly for that role. UniFi supports multiple WAN inputs, so I keep this unit configured as a fallback in case my primary Internet goes down. When that happens, I can bridge it to my phone’s hotspot Wi‑Fi and restore connectivity quickly. For such a small and inexpensive device, it’s a reliable and flexible backup solution.

Tiny, honestly Tiny, amazing little device, remember if you are using this to extend your wireless network set it up as a bridge not an access point or a router, I use mine hard wired in to a poe net switch, the device does come with a PSU though if you need it. I'm getting 60mbs which is more than fast enough for my phone when sat out in the garden. Connect the device directly in to your ethernet port on your computer for setup and follow the instructions, any questions simply ask an ai chat bot, quicker than anything these days although I would avoid asking the chatbot on here as it's limited. Overall I can highly recommend this, if you wanted an outside access point this would easily fit inside a small plastic terminal box. It's highly configurable via the in built web server or the software, I used the web interface and it was quick and simple. Note that out of the box mine was set with no WiFi password! Make sure you change this, look for the little padlock next to the WiFi symbol on your phone, if you don't see it, connect to your pc and set a password for access.

Performance et compact peut être un peu complexe pour les novices ,route OS marque que je conseille AU TOP TOP

werkt goed. verwacht geen wonderen. maar voor kleine ruimtes prima te gebruiken en makkelijk mee te nemen.

Questo marchio mi ha da subito entusiasmato, quando ho iniziato ad impiegarlo un anno e mezzo fa. La configurazione dei dispositivi di questo brand richiede però un'ottima conoscenza delle reti ed una certa dimestichezza riguardo al modus operandi di RouteOS. Una volta acquisita si possono però implementare delle funzionalità piuttosto avanzate, contando anche su un'ottima affidabilità. Questo dispositivo non fa eccezione, ha le dimensioni di una scatola di cerini, è dotato di una porta ethernet con un "vero" PoE (IEEE 802.3af) e funziona bene. Sono comunque impazzito un giorno intero prima di riuscire a farlo funzionare come Access Point base, cioè senza routing tra le due interfacce. Questa semplice configurazione necessita di impostare un bridge software tra la porta wlan e quella ethernet, ma non appena includevo la ethernet nel bridge, questa cessava di funzionare. Il problema si manifestava solo connettendo il dispositivo con il mio switch a 24 porte MikroTik CSS326-24G, che gestisce diverse reti tramite le VLAN (con porte comunque untagged). Con altri switch, anche managed ma senza VLAN, era tutto OK. Alla fine è stato sufficiente impostare nel bridge, sezione STP, protocol=none, invece che RSTP (impostazione predefinita) e tutto è andato a posto

Muy fácil de configurar y muy buena cobertura.