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Kind of cool for dirty cheap gear? But tbh the power draw on some of that gear seems to run 2x to 4x that of similar spec'ed current gen gear from mikrotik. Whi
by gtvwill 4y ago
Kind of cool for dirty cheap gear? But tbh the power draw on some of that gear seems to run 2x to 4x that of similar spec'ed current gen gear from mikrotik. Which after a year or three's service makes the low initial cost seem like a trap. Going from 11-20w up to 50w per device is substantial.
For absurdities sake, can run 100 switches in my home lab for same power cost as like 40 of these old gen and that's off a 10a single socket. Pretty darty. Makes plotting ghetto redundant power setups way easier.
- yakak 4y agoA lot of the mikrotiks around ~20w are actually not providing as many >1gb ports as the used equipment or mikrotiks that also use around 40-50w, so if you actually need many fast ports the older equipment might be a better deal.
- metadat 4y agoI've bought mikrotik devices before, but they issue so few firmware updates I don't think I want to continue down this path. They have a history of ignoring egregious security issues. Brocade on the other hand is another story, they issue frequent updates and are rock solid in the reliability department.