Anybody else evaluating or using these?
They are smaller than I thought from the brochure photo, which is good. I worry a bit about customers pressing the little buttons though, you know how customers love to push buttons, plus you could accidentally push a button while plugging the unit into a wall outlet. The instructions aren't correct, it doesn't have an IP address of 192.168.88.1 by default, it is set up as a bridge with a DHCP client and nothing else. You can access it from Winbox by MAC address, or I guess you can connect it behind a router and let it get an IP address via DHCP. How are people setting these up? Our intent is to use them where the customer already has a leased, managed Mikrotik router from us and they have WiFi deadspots but don't want any cables run. But if we're supplying it as part of a managed service (we bite the bullet on the cost if there is a WiFi coverage problem within the house), then I want to be able to monitor and manage the router and any powerline APs remotely. Winbox via MAC address would not seem adequate. I guess we could give each powerline device an identity which I assume will show up as the hostname in the router DHCP server and then we could temporarily put in a port forward to access them remotely. Or we could assign them static IP addresses like 192.168.88.2 and 192.168.88.3 which is how we handle PTP links and routers behind a customer router. If we just leave them as a bridge with a DHCP client, they technically don't need configuration, you can just push the Sync buttons to pair them. But like any newly released device I think we're going to want to upgrade the firmware at which point we can change the configuration if we want to, at least set System/Identity and maybe IP address.
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