Swissonic Professional Router 2

On the surface, this looks like a a solidly built rack mount WiFi router with a few Ethernet ports, and I could easily forgive the fact that said Ethernet ports are only 10/100 at this price point, and the fact that for the intended use (control data between Front of House and the stage, not a lot of bandwidth needed) it's plenty. However, the engineer in me decided to have a look inside, and what I found was not anything resembling a "professional-level" product.

-The cabling between the front-panel Ethercon sockets and the main board is not network cabling. It is 2 twisted pairs free-floating. Now for 100 mb/s, it technically will work, but this is shoddy at best and might barely rate as Category 3.

-Aside from a tiny piece of masking tape holding the wire bundle down to the bottom of the chassis (which will dry out in short time and fail), they are unsecured. Further, these wires are soldered to the pins on the bottom of the board of a pair of "unused" LAN sockets, rather than removing those sockets and through-soldering the wires, and the soldering is sloppy at best to boot.

-The WiFi radio sections are missing their RF shielding entirely. Granted, the rack-mount chassis is all metal, however, the shields should still be there.

-The antenna wires are soldered to the board instead of using connectors. This would be fine, however, the soldering is extremely sloppy.

The internals of this product are amateur at best. I've opened up consumer-level products that had better build quality than this "Professional"-level product.

The only saving grace so far is that the setup and configuration is relatively straight forward, though definitely in the "no-frills" sense.