Mikrotik : Supported/working hardware thread

[AfricanTech]

Personally for myself, with a small home network with xbox, pc's laptops cell phones, tablets all on the network, I often ask myself, how did I ever manage without one. Granted, I am far from being a network engineer and have never really worked with enterprise networking hardware, but I found the Mikrotik brilliant for me. It basically does as advertised at a great price in my opinion. I love the scripting functionality. I don't think people would run a multinational company's global network on one. It does have its uses in the correct environment.

Same here.

A combination of a Mikrotik and 3 Ubiquiti Unifi's (plus a TP-Link configured as modem only) has resulted in a rock-solid home network (I had endless issues before with the consumer oriented stuff - Netgear, TP-Link, etc).

I am very far from a Network Engineer, but with the kind help of people here, managed to configure the initial setup - since then, it just works.

 

[yogidabear]

There are a number of global companies that run their networks on Mikrotik. Its Linux at the base and the hardware is really immaterial as its simply a base / platform. Sure its easy to knock the default implementation but all that says is it was never set up correctly.

 

[koeksGHT]

There are a number of global companies that run their networks on Mikrotik. Its Linux at the base and the hardware is really immaterial as its simply a base / platform. Sure its easy to knock the default implementation but all that says is it was never set up correctly.

Apart from some software issues there is only so far you can go before you have to upgrade to some decent enterprise equipment.

 

[yogidabear]

Never said Mikrotik is the best enterprise hardware you can buy, but it delivers for the expense. Have used it for RIP (before OSPF) and OSPF networks successfully. Never had the demand for MPLS or BGP, but depends on what you want.

 

[koeksGHT]

Never said Mikrotik is the best enterprise hardware you can buy, but it delivers for the expense. Have used it for RIP (before OSPF) and OSPF networks successfully. Never had the demand for MPLS or BGP, but depends on what you want.

You need at least 4Gb RAM to hold the full routing table, 8Gb min needed soon.

 

[yogidabear]

You need at least 4Gb RAM to hold the full routing table, 8Gb min needed soon.

So back to the OP there are routers with 8Gb RAM and more but you wont need them for LTE and ADSL. However the quotes of Mikrotik not being able to do OSPF are unfounded. For the application that 99% of the readers here require, Mikrotik will work reliably when configured correctly.

 

[breacher]

I also have this love, hate relationship with mikrotik They just sometimes die for nothing which is irritating, but we have quite a lot deployed so I guess the law of averages apply.

My advise, configure them to do a job and just leave them.

I see people praising mikrotik for their QOS, I must say that the ubiquity edgerouter has much better QOS with FQ_Codel and now supports MPLS as well, so a very good alternative now.

Got Pro one for sale, about a year and a half old, was used for a month (been in server cabinet ever since, unplugged), if you interested PM me.