I’ve recorded my hAP Mini config video a couple of times so far and still not found a version I like. It is in the pipelines though however I’m thinking that trying to include low powered device optimisation into the same video is a bad thing. Maybe that should be it’s own video?
Either way I’ve configured my new “toy” a couple of times now and have been really amazed by what I was able to push through it. Bearing in mind this is a low powered single core unit out of the box with a handful of firewall rules and NAT it was able to push 94Mb whilst maintaining only 88% of CPU utilisation (minus whatever it was using for me watching Winbox).
Testament to my previous fasttrack learning curve though, once I put a couple of fasttrack rules into the firewall that same 94Mb was achieved on just 22% of CPU utilisation (again whilst I had Winbox open so minus a few % for that.
I seem to be finding 94Mb as a limitation though, this will no doubt be in part due to the unit only being 10/100 and losing some overhead from that but I’m amazed how viable this thing is, even to the point that it would be able to be used for VDSL in the UK with no detriment.
Please keep your eyes peeled for some soon to come videos regarding the hAP mini, potentially a config and then a more broad stroke efficiency ideas.