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Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by willis936 »

ok_dad wrote: post #27

So, what's the best wifi gateway with extra access points for a home that I don't have to screw with and doesn't spy on me or have cloud crap? My ISP sent a Google wifi thing but I'd rather pay a few hundred than use that for 10 bucks a month to rent that thing, and I don't trust Google. Edit: Thanks for all the answers, from me and anyone else who was looking! I have some good ideas from the below comments and hopef…

I bought a used Ruckus R610 on ebay for a modest $160 (not including power adapter). I am extremely happy with the hardware performance and the stability and options of the Unleashed firmware.

It says it supports a gateway mode, but as a power user I want a bit more control than what I would expect a WAP to offer. I use an EdgeRouter-4 running whatever the latest official release is. Having separate boxes grants me freedom to do things like mess with Wi-Fi settings while my SO watches a show on Apple TV connected via Ethernet. It's the little things.

I often think of a pfSense build, but then I remember how happy I am with the performance and efficiency of a dedicated box.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by minimaul »

mindslight wrote: post #18
beebeepka wrote: post #3

I've been thinking about going with Mikrotik at least twice but never pulled the trigger because I am sort of a chicken shit. Is it easy for a noob to setup things like port forwarding and vlans on a router/ap box?

I've got a few Mikrotik devices (CRS328, CSS326). Maybe I just haven't gotten it, but I find their RouterOS WebUI extremely confusing. Like go into three separate top-level tabs to assign a VLAN to a port. The CLI is okay, once you get stuff working and just need to duplicate/modify lines. Mikrotik's SwOS is alright and has most of the options you'd expect from a switch, but is missing the ability to have a human rea…

I find that Winbox is much more usable than the WebUI - it runs well under wine (and even on m1, you can run it under wine64 under rosetta).

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by dprice1 »

ok_dad wrote: post #27

So, what's the best wifi gateway with extra access points for a home that I don't have to screw with and doesn't spy on me or have cloud crap? My ISP sent a Google wifi thing but I'd rather pay a few hundred than use that for 10 bucks a month to rent that thing, and I don't trust Google. Edit: Thanks for all the answers, from me and anyone else who was looking! I have some good ideas from the below comments and hopef…

I used to work on a product for secure small-biz Wifi, and so dogfooded my own product in my house. When that was over and I took that out of my house, I had my eyes on Ubiquiti, and it is an impressive ecosystem. But as others have said, it's out of stock all the time, and Ubiqiti are teasing people right now with their next-gen product which is available but also unobtainable.

Eventually I picked the Asus ZenWifi system, and honestly it works great (I have no affiliation with Asus). There's no cloud account to create when you install it. The app is acceptable. There are various security things you can turn on which seem to require cloud assistance, but the core product seems to work very nicely. Any time you try to turn on something which might cause the system to share extra data, a popup appears to explain that to you.

It's so powerful, Wifi-wise, that I bought three nodes and only deployed two. I use it with Ethernet backhaul but it has a dedicated radio for wireless backhaul. It has ethernet LAN ports on each node, and each node is identical to every other node (i.e. there is no "base" and "satellite"). I went from spotty Wifi throughout my 2,000 sq ft house to very strong Wifi throughout. I wrung my hands for a long time because I gave up VLANs and some other things I wanted, and then said the heck with it.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by blibble »

beebeepka wrote: post #3

I've been thinking about going with Mikrotik at least twice but never pulled the trigger because I am sort of a chicken shit. Is it easy for a noob to setup things like port forwarding and vlans on a router/ap box?

it's basically a (somewhat) pretty gui around iptables and /etc/network/interfaces

everything more or less maps directly onto raw Linux functionality

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by 60Vhipx7b4JL »

ok_dad wrote: post #27

So, what's the best wifi gateway with extra access points for a home that I don't have to screw with and doesn't spy on me or have cloud crap? My ISP sent a Google wifi thing but I'd rather pay a few hundred than use that for 10 bucks a month to rent that thing, and I don't trust Google. Edit: Thanks for all the answers, from me and anyone else who was looking! I have some good ideas from the below comments and hopef…

how about openwrt/openwisp?

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by iso1210 »

mindslight wrote: post #18
beebeepka wrote: post #3

I've been thinking about going with Mikrotik at least twice but never pulled the trigger because I am sort of a chicken shit. Is it easy for a noob to setup things like port forwarding and vlans on a router/ap box?

I've got a few Mikrotik devices (CRS328, CSS326). Maybe I just haven't gotten it, but I find their RouterOS WebUI extremely confusing. Like go into three separate top-level tabs to assign a VLAN to a port. The CLI is okay, once you get stuff working and just need to duplicate/modify lines. Mikrotik's SwOS is alright and has most of the options you'd expect from a switch, but is missing the ability to have a human rea…

Yes, mikrotiks separate bridges, vlans, interfaces.

If you want to set ether 3, 4 and 5 to untagged vlan called "Alf" with ID 11, ether 6 to untablled vlan "Bob" (id 12), and ether 7 and 8 to a trunk of both Alf and Bob, you can do

1) Create a bridge for Alf, and a bridge for Bob

2) Assign IPs for them (assuming your mikrotik is the router), and maybe dhcp pools, server etc

3) add ether3, 4 and 5 as bridge ports for Alf, and ether6 for Bob

4) Create a vlan interface on ether7 for Alf with vlanid=11, add to bridge Alf

5) Create a vlan interface on ether8 for Alf with vlanid=11, add to bridge Alf

6) Create a vlan interface on ether7 for Bob with vlanid=21, add to bridge Bob

7) Create a vlan interface on ether8 for Bob with vlanid=21, add to bridge Bob

But the killer is there are two different recommended ways to do it depending on the hardware.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by Arnt »

bigyellow wrote: post #37

Sincere question: why would someone trust a closed source OS for their router?

I tracerouted to a host across the world now and poked at the routers along the path. All of the routers whose vendor or OS I can identify use closed source. So whatever the answers to "why?" may be, it's a common thing to trust.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by formerly_proven »

dprice1 wrote: post #43
ok_dad wrote: post #27

So, what's the best wifi gateway with extra access points for a home that I don't have to screw with and doesn't spy on me or have cloud crap? My ISP sent a Google wifi thing but I'd rather pay a few hundred than use that for 10 bucks a month to rent that thing, and I don't trust Google. Edit: Thanks for all the answers, from me and anyone else who was looking! I have some good ideas from the below comments and hopef…

I used to work on a product for secure small-biz Wifi, and so dogfooded my own product in my house. When that was over and I took that out of my house, I had my eyes on Ubiquiti, and it is an impressive ecosystem. But as others have said, it's out of stock all the time, and Ubiqiti are teasing people right now with their next-gen product which is available but also unobtainable. Eventually I picked the Asus ZenWifi s…

Ubiquiti seems to have turned into a complete shit-show in the last five years.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by izacus »

vladgur wrote: post #49

So what is a good mesh wifi system that would allow me to put all my IoT things on a separate VLAN? Dream Machine is not a mesh system…the only alternative that I could find by googling was Orbi Pro

What do you mean by "dream machine is not a mesh system"? UniFi APs can use wireless backhaul and mesh as well. What exactly do you need?
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