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I’ve only bought 47 so you’d better get in there quick! You can order against the incoming delivery.
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MikroTik must be waiting for a delivery of old washing machines!
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Well that's a dangerous site. Bookmarked.
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Interesting. The 2.5Gbe is the feature I need, my NAS/PC/Proxmox host all have 2.5Gbe capable NICs. 10Gbe means new NAS and extra NICs all round.
I'll keep an eye on that product range, looks promising.
I've been using Mikrotik stuff since the early era of Routerboards, granted a munged OpenWRT on those but I've always been very impressed with their hardware and their open source attitude as a company. It's refreshing in these days of walled gardens and locked ecosystems like you say.
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I don’t think there is anything open source about MikroTik. They licence their software very aggressively and woe betides anyone trying to use MikroTik software without an appropriate licence. Obviously all MikroTik hardware comes with a licence but I don’t think they’re sharing any code with anyone in open source tradition.
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Just be aware of the delivery charges. It can end up cheaper buying from somewhere else just because they want £20 to deliver a £100 router. I think we spent over £70K with them in 2021 and we still have to pay for shipping. Crazy.
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Latvian, not Russian. They’re waiting on a delivery of AX chipsets, just like everyone else.
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Yeah It's sad as they seem to have a great product. I ordered mine from msdist.co.uk Oxford? AX2 though.
Is this Wiki representative of the current OS https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Initial_Configuration#Logging_into_the_router I want to do some home work before I get the product.
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Go on YouTube and look up @Steveocee and watch his videos. That’s a pretty good starting point
Looking to upgrade my USG3P to something to take advantage of 1Gbit+ internet without spending a fortune (UDM-SE etc).
What would be some options from MikroTik to look at? 2.5gbe WAN for the VM Hub 5 and a couple 10gbe LAN ports would be nice.
I have a USW-16-POE for everything else.
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What would be some options from MikroTik to look at? 2.5gbe WAN for the VM Hub 5 and a couple 10gbe LAN ports would be nice.
I have a USW-16-POE for everything else.
Thanks
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Why won’t your USG3P do gigabit+ Ethernet? IPS/IDS and QoS are pointless so turn them off and hey presto! it will be passing gigabit traffic.
I already have them turned off and it tops out at 950Mbps but connect direct to the Hub 5 and it gets 1150Mbps.
Plus I'd like a few 10Gbe ports for NAS
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CRS312-4C+8XG-RM might be an option. The 10GbE ports will also run at 2.5GbE or 5GbE, so you’d set it up as a router running RouterOS rather than a switch running swOS (you choose which operating system you want to run when it boots up).
Or RB5009 with an SFP+ uplink to CRS305-1G-4S+IN.
Or RB5009 with an SFP+ uplink to CRS305-1G-4S+IN.
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It’s difficult to say. On one hand I’d agree with you it doesn’t look amazing on paper and on the other look at its L3 switching capabilities.
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OK, no CRS312. I might just fire one up later and see what it will do. Bear in mind Mikrotik is a simple SPI firewall. It’s not running any sophisticated security packages.
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Completely out of the box - QNAP Guardian QGD1602P and run RouterOS on that.