Anyone use mikrotik network gear?
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I've had a mikrotik Routerboard 750 in place for about 6 years, load balancing/failover between a VM and a BT service. A steep learning curve but the forums and documentation give you a good start. It's been faultless, I've only ever rebooted as part of a firmware/OS upgrade.
The web interface to routerOS is a bit clunky but the windows only WinBox admin software is ok, plus there is the CLI if you need it.
RouterOS is very powerful and hugely configurable, in a home environment you'll only need the basics.
The web interface to routerOS is a bit clunky but the windows only WinBox admin software is ok, plus there is the CLI if you need it.
RouterOS is very powerful and hugely configurable, in a home environment you'll only need the basics.
If you want to learn (and learn hard, because it's not the nicest stuff to use!), then it's great value for money.
RouterOS is very fully featured for very little cost, making it a great platform to learn some advanced stuff on without spending a fortune.
The only thing I would say is that it's of very little practical use once you've learned it. I wouldn't use mikrotik hardware in any actual critical or business situation beyond maybe a SOHO setup, so it's going to be good for teaching protocols and networking principles, but how to apply those things in the real world (Cisco, Juniper etc) will be completely different.
So, if you want really powerful home stuff for fun and learning, yes, it's great. And cheap. And reliable enough.
If you actually work anywhere near networking kit for a living, and you want to invest in your career in this stuff, forget it and get something friendlier to use like Ubiquity kit instead, or more widely used like some old Cisco stuff from ebay.
What exactly is it that Unify kit doesn't support? I've never had any bother with it.
RouterOS is very fully featured for very little cost, making it a great platform to learn some advanced stuff on without spending a fortune.
The only thing I would say is that it's of very little practical use once you've learned it. I wouldn't use mikrotik hardware in any actual critical or business situation beyond maybe a SOHO setup, so it's going to be good for teaching protocols and networking principles, but how to apply those things in the real world (Cisco, Juniper etc) will be completely different.
So, if you want really powerful home stuff for fun and learning, yes, it's great. And cheap. And reliable enough.
If you actually work anywhere near networking kit for a living, and you want to invest in your career in this stuff, forget it and get something friendlier to use like Ubiquity kit instead, or more widely used like some old Cisco stuff from ebay.
What exactly is it that Unify kit doesn't support? I've never had any bother with it.
mer dhcp option 61 for negotiating the vdsl connection
I maybe trying to flog a dead horse and should just change provider but its cheap for a 80/20 connection.
I just an all in one device that supports vlans mainly to keep my labs away from the house network.
Oh and the ability to be able to use a different dns service would be a start
I maybe trying to flog a dead horse and should just change provider but its cheap for a 80/20 connection.
I just an all in one device that supports vlans mainly to keep my labs away from the house network.
Oh and the ability to be able to use a different dns service would be a start
Trustmeimadoctor said:
was looking at unifi but seems they dont support skys requirements for connection
You could just use the sky router for the broadband connection and delegate wireless to something else. That way should you ever change away from sky and anything about your connection changes it doesn't matter, you just use whatever your provider supplies.I do this using a unifi AP.
From what I've read the "modem" side of the sky routers aren't bad, its the wireless bit that is poor.
you only need a cloudkey if you want to access the setup from a remote site. You can run unifi controller on a laptop in the worst case scenario or stick it on a raspberrypi (I do this and have it run pihole too). Unless there was something specific in the USG I don't think you need that either.
you only need a cloudkey if you want to access the setup from a remote site. You can run unifi controller on a laptop in the worst case scenario or stick it on a raspberrypi (I do this and have it run pihole too). Unless there was something specific in the USG I don't think you need that either.
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