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

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

I installed this device in my home as a low-power dedicated AP for a floodlight camera. My other cameras are wired and powered with PoE, so the mAP lite sort of "represents" the floodlight on my wired network. The FCC ID is TV7MAPL2ND if you want to check out the guts before you buy it. I did have issues initially connecting to the web interface since it turns out the documentation was a little ahead of its time. A firmware upgrade followed by a factory reset causes the device to behave as documented, but with the shipped firmware the LAN interface did not come preconfigured with the IP address 192.168.88.1. Out of the box, it served up an unprotected wireless network named something like "MikroTik-XXXXXX", but I could not simply connect to this network to configure the device. What I ended up doing is plugging the mAP into my computer and enabling Windows internet connection sharing to share my computer's existing network connection with the mAP. This assigned an IP to the mAP, and I was able to connect to the web interface afterwards. Holy cow are there configuration options... I just used one of the quick settings to do what I needed. The reason I removed a star is the jack. Yes, the slim design looks nice, but the jack that was actually sourced is not great. It holds onto cables very well. Too well, actually, as it has a hard time letting them go. I have to push the entire connector down pretty forcefully as well as press in the connector's clip near its fulcrum before the jack releases the cable. This can't be great for the longevity of the cables or the jack, but luckily this device is a permanent fixture. I found the PoE support on the mAP lite to be great. I've powered this thing using an 802.3af/at injector from Cudy (model POE200) as well as a passive 24 volt injector from TP-Link (model TL-POE2412G). I haven't had this device for terribly long, so I'll update this review if things go south. In the meantime, pretty neat!

It seems like great hardware. Unfortunately, I was looking around this device's web interface shortly after purchasing and apparently I changed something causing both the wifi and ethernet port to stop working normally. It's now a brick because apparently there is *no way* to do a factory reset. Hours wasted trying to get this thing back to baseline while going through their horrible documentation, I give up.

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.