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MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by grenoire »

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?

Yeah, got hAP ac^2 and it's literally plug and play. Port forwarding etc. are all really easy.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by minimaul »

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?

Their firewall is essentially iptables. If you can work iptables, you can work the routeros firewall.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by thequux »

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?

Most of their devices come out of the box in a sensible configuration for a home router, and port forwarding/vlans are very straightforward to set up. If you're really worried, you can run the cloud-hosted router software in a VM to play around with it and find out if it will meet your needs.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by 28304283409234 »

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 would suggest looking at their wiki and screenshots or youtube of their UI.

I've managed cisco amd juniper routers. And I can't make heads nor tails of it.

As soon as you wonder off the default track, you're expected to understand deep level networking terminology abstracted in a UI tailored for experts.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by detaro »

ericcholis wrote: post #8

Does MikroTik live in the same prosumer space that made ubiquiti products so popular early on?

On the nerdier side of that. More exotic features, lot less nice UI, lots of (cheap) lower-performance options and sometimes obscure product variations.

I.e. among people where I know what kind of stuff they have, anybody vaguely technical might have an Ubiquiti AP for their WiFi, whereas the people that love to tinker with networking stuff have some mikrotik device somewhere to play with.

Re: MikroTik RouterOS v7 stable released

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Post by techietim »

vorpalhex wrote: post #2

Exciting! This should include native wireguard support..

I have been using the Wireguard support in the beta release for most of this past year. Having a persistent connection from my Android phone and my wife's iPhone was simple with the built-in Mikrotik DDNS service. It makes checking on things like security cameras nice if you do not want to use a cloud service.
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