BLACKWiFi GUIDE CHOOSING THE RIGHT AP

BLACKWiFi Guide: Choosing the Right AP for Your Hotspot is a practical training resource for engineers
and operators who need to translate Wi-Fi specifications into real deployment decisions.
The central lesson is simple: an access point is not selected by the AX/BE number alone. Hotspot
performance depends on RF environment, client density, channel width, uplink capacity, PoE, weather
protection, authentication, VLAN design, backhaul, and how the MikroTik gateway manages users.
This edition compares four requested AP families and adds the outdoor Grandstream AX6000 variant
because outdoor hotspot deployments require weatherproof hardware.
Specification policy: figures in this book are vendor-published specifications or clearly labeled
calculations from those specifications. Peak PHY/aggregate rates are not guarantees of application
throughput. Actual results vary with client capability, channel utilization, interference, distance,
protocol overhead, backhaul and configuration.