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MikroTik may be an option. I use one in a small office setting without any big complaints.
by jgilias 6y ago
MikroTik may be an option. I use one in a small office setting without any big complaints.
- reaperducer 6y agoI looked at MicroTik, and its prices are between half and 10x less than the other brands. How is this possible? It makes me worry about the quality.
- jgilias 6y agoMostly by keeping the organization lean. Which means that customer support staff is near non-existent and in case you need support you're pretty much on your own with their wiki and the forums. That, or hiring one of their third party certified partners. However, the capabilities you get out of the router are very good at that price point.
- ac29 6y agoThe very cheapest stuff they sell certainly has compromises: their low end APs have 100Mbit Ethernet and 802.11n (with no 5GHz support), for example. The upside is SoCs that integrate all of this funactionality are only a few dollars, so they can sell entire routers for $20-30 on the cheap end.
- barlo 6y agoI'm a huge fan of MikroTik. The RB4011 is fantastic router at the price point and even has a 10G SFP+ port. Great hardware. The configuration UI isn't the best, but they also have a full scriptable CLI that isn't too bad. Huge future set. I just wish they would move the newest version (7) along quicker in development.
- Cicero22 6y agoBig fan of MikroTik myself, but the scripting language can be pretty finicky and has a somewhat steep learning curve. I won't claim I've mastered it, but after a couple of months of working with it, I still feel handicapped by the syntax, quirks, and general lack of usability. For example, this is how I'm finding the subnet mask from a string like "192.168.1.0/24" in a script I recently wrote (I think I got this from a forum post, but I can't find it anymore.) :local mask do={ :return (255.255.255.255 << (32 - [:pick $1 ([:find $1 "/"] + 1) [:len $inet]]))}