The very cheapest stuff they sell certainly has compromises: their low end APs have 100Mbit Ethernet and 802.11n (with no 5GHz support), for example. The upside

The very cheapest stuff they sell certainly has compromises: their low end APs have 100Mbit Ethernet and 802.11n (with no 5GHz support), for example. The upside is SoCs that integrate all of this funactionality are only a few dollars, so they can sell entire routers for $20-30 on the cheap end.