Category: hardware

I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a pair of MikroTik Audience devices to put through their paces. The Audience is a new device from MikroTik, and perhaps one of the first I’ve seen that is specifically targeted to a home environment, with the stylish exterior designed not just to be a wireless … Continue reading MikroTik Audience – review and teardown →

I’ve been playing around with v6.13rc12 over the last week on a CRS125-24G-1S and have put together a an example script for provisioning the unit with a user-vlan and an admin-vlan that are trunked back via the SFP port. I’ve been waiting for a long time to have a usable and readable switch chip config … Continue reading CRS Basic Vlan Configuration →

In todays episode of “why is this $thing not working?” This access point won’t power up. I shook it and heard an odd sound.. Custard?  That’s nasty. And so ends the life of an access point.

Thanks to Mike Hammett for Sharing this with me. For anyone dealing with lots of ethernet connections, be that PoE runs up towers or 48 port switches providing to office desks, hotel rooms etc, we’ve all had to test and troubleshoot connection issues. These can range from physical connectivity problems like: – Cable run too … Continue reading Pokethernet – The swiss army knife of cable testers →

This was spotted today in the Mikrotik Wiki’s supported hardware list. Brand Model Rate Connector/Cable Type Wavelength Tested with Works/Doesn’t MikroTik RB SFP3401 10/100/1000 RJ45, Cat6 – RB2011LS-IN Works. Available in Q3! MikroTik RB SFP5602D-53 155M~2.63G Bi-Di LC, MM 1550/1310 RB2011LS-IN Works. Available in Q3! MikroTik RB SFP5602D-35 155M~2.63G Bi-Di LC, MM 1310/1550 RB2011LS-IN Works. … Continue reading Routerboard 10Gbps capable hardware coming soon? →

Announced less than 24 hours ago at the Warsaw MUM, comes the first (and hopefully not the last) MikroTik shot at high end routing. Update 2012-07-16: Tilera has made a press release confirming their processors will be used in the CCR-1036. You can read the full thing here.   Mikrotik CLOUD CORE Router CCR-1036 36 … Continue reading MikroTik Cloud Core Router: CCR-1036 (Updated) →

New toys you say?   Noticed this little gem in the MikroTik wiki this morning while reviewing Queue Types. Note: Starting from v5.8 there is new kind none and new default queue only-hardware-queue. All RouterBOARDS will have this new queue type set as default interface queue only-hardware-queue leaves interface with only hw transmit descriptor ring buffer which acts as a queue … Continue reading Queue outside please! →

Live here at Las Vegas, Normis has just finished announcing the new products; some new and exciting info about the RB2011 as well as more details on known models. RB2011:   – Low cost series – Rackmount or Desktop – 5xGigabit, 5x100Mbit – SFP/USB/WiFi models – Available December Model Table L LS US US2HnD Type … Continue reading MikroTik new product announcements – October 2011 →

Subnetting:   Given my general lazyness in all things requiring pen and pencil; I like many others am prone to using a subnet calculator in day to day network building. That and when you think about it.. which is more likely to be correct, a computer with static algorithms or a coffee-fueled network administrator adding … Continue reading Subnetting and Serial over SSH →

So I’m sitting in a hotel in Brisbane after having had a fun filled week of all things MikroTik. Highlights: I’m now a fully qualified MTCNA. Meeting Normis, Janis and Arnis. Seeing the new RB751N (pics later on).   All in all the meeting was great and I’m sure we’ll see presentations (my favourites were … Continue reading MUM Australia – April 2011 →

Recently I’ve had 2 RB450’s come across my desk as “dead” units. 1 was the victim of a power surge, the other had just stopped working at some point. As these were both going to visit the bin otherwise, I claimed both units in the hope that I might be able to use my limited … Continue reading The death and resurrection of an RB450 →

Having received one of the first RB1100’s to arrive in Australia, I can sum all my thoughts on it in 5 words “better and cheaper than cisco”. However seeing as that’s just my opinion, I’ll elaborate a little further on why exactly the RB1100 rates so high in my mind.