I have deployed a dozen mikrotiks with ubiquity networks wireless cards for wireless backhaul networks covering tens of kilometres. the hardware has been good,

I have deployed a dozen mikrotiks with ubiquity networks wireless cards for wireless backhaul networks covering tens of kilometres. the hardware has been good, the software hasn't always worked as advertised. I find when I really get in to using any one feature beyond the basic configuration, it hasn't worked out. For example it supports openVPN, but only over TCP and not UDP, so I end up with TCP over TCP and all the problems that go with that. Or I want to have two access points which route traffic between eachother, but also local clients can connect to either one. ap-bridge mode with wireless distribution system (WDS) can do this, but only with WEP encryption since for some reason one of the wireless cards must be in "station" mode for the WPA key exchange to function properly. In station mode the wireless card is not an access point, it is a client only and can not accept the local connections from laptops. The support is surly and unapologetic. If your bug is fixed, in the next major release you have to pay to upgrade your license, but probably that release has some other bug as well. read the changelogs, the users are the beta testers. mikrotik are accused of being GPL violators as well, openWRT has not been able to support recent hardware. you get what you pay for. If I had to deploy more wireless networks, I would use the ubiquity access point products, they've come a long way. Maybe I'd still use mikrotik for a router.