"goes-intos and goes-outtas" - love it. Buffer counts and buffer sizing is also a notoriously cut-throat game in vendor marketing, almost on par with (mis-)use

"goes-intos and goes-outtas" - love it. Buffer counts and buffer sizing is also a notoriously cut-throat game in vendor marketing, almost on par with (mis-)use of the term "wire speed". This is not an easy/cheap problem to solve, and I fully agree with the conclusion: Mikrotik hardware is good up to the point where the price/performance curve falls the wrong way in a particular situation. I also get a lot of use from Mikrotik hardware, particularly the passively-cooled models where performance isn't as important as price + silence.