**Official MikroTik Hardware **

[alex24]

I struggled with VLANS too, especially since for a while there were two methods and only one allowed hardware acceleration but it wasn’t clear enough to me which.

Everything else is pretty good though, especially the firewall which is powerful and actually quite logical once you understand how it works.

Nevertheless I’m on UniFi kit now and it’s 1000x easier for most things you need. Firewall setup is worse though.

 

[Steveocee]

Everything else is pretty good though, especially the firewall which is powerful and actually quite logical once you understand how it works.

The firewall is a raw beast, no frills. I've recently moved my home setup over onto pfsense as I needed something more "segmented" although I have been looking into "jump to chain" as I think I can get the view I want from that and then I can re-utilise my 10Gb CHR license

 

[Ad_Augendae]

What’s new in 7.19.3 (2025-Jul-03 14:23):

• bridge - allow IPv6 FastPath when dhcp-snooping is enabled;
• iot - LoRa LNS stability improvement;
• lte - AT modems, fixed typos in commands sent to modem when APN with authentication is used (AT+CGAUTH; AT$QCPDPP);
• lte - R11e-LTE and R11e-LTE6, fixed possible crash on device unexpected removal or during RouterOS shutdown;
• mpls - improved stability when handling VPLS packets;
• radius - fixed RADIUS client section becoming unresponsive when RadSec is configured, but server is not responding;
• radius - fixed wrong RadSec port number in logs;
• radius - properly verify certificate when RadSec is used;
• sfp - added sfp-power-class and sfp-max-power monitor values for QSFP;
• supout - added IPv6 NAT section;
• switch - fixed ACL rules with “redirect-to-cpu” (introduced in v7.19.2);
• switch - fixed bonding issues after switch reset (introduced in v7.18);
• switch - fixed port blocking with spanning tree on EN7523 switch (introduced in v7.19);
• swos - changed firmware file location (URL) for software update checks;
• system - reduced RouterOS ARM package size;
• winbox - show/hide corresponding fields when switching RADIUS client mode between RadSec and UDP;

 

[Steveocee]

Moved back to CHR again. The internet feels so much snappier on Tik. I think my pfsense wasn’t quite right or pfblocker was slowing things down but can say with confidence tik plus npm is doing everything I had before with pf.
Wish there were pretty graphs lol

 

[Ad_Augendae]

I tried out Openwrt the other day just for giggles, I felt so blind to data that Tik gives.

 

[$anch3z]

I tried out Openwrt the other day just for giggles, I felt so blind to data that Tik gives.

Aye same experience with openwrt, got the Flint 3 - early firmware is terrible, the gui even in luci seems a little lacking. Ethernet speeds seems to be anything from 100mb to 2.5gb when it feels like it.

I'll ssh in later on and see if it makes any more sense, if not its back in the box.

 

[Ad_Augendae]

I think the same thing happened with the with Flint 2 didn't it. It's taken Mikrotik about 2 years to settle all the silly problems with WiFi 6 and I still see problems with some old equipment not being able to connect with FT enabled. Sorry state of affairs. At least Openwrt seem to move a bit faster.