> The Mikrotik's AP is pretty terrible. Doesn't even span a small 1BR in Seattle. Which AP do you have? They sell many, which vary greatly in transmit power.

> The Mikrotik's AP is pretty terrible. Doesn't even span a small 1BR in Seattle. Which AP do you have? They sell many, which vary greatly in transmit power. Some (like the RB951G-2HnD) support up to the legal maximum of 30 dBm, but most (like the cAP lite) run at 20 dBm. The notorious RB951-2n (my first) ran at only 15 dBm, which is underpowered. The 20 dBm models are designed to be used in a multiple-AP scenario, e.g. one AP per room. They definitely won't span multiple rooms, by design. (This is for several reasons, both to properly segregate client devices onto separate APs, and to ensure TX power parity between the AP and devices, which often operate in the 17 dBm range.) I've run exclusively MT for years and never had one lock up under load. What model do you have and what sort of bandwidth are you talking about? I regularly run 200+ Mbps transfers to/from my NAS (across a wAP ac) and never have trouble. (I did once own a hAP ac that would – after an electrical event that destroyed some other equipment of mine – reboot occasionally.)