Tag: routerboard

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 →

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? →

Just a couple of quick screen shots of the new “Quick Set” mode available in some of the newest releases. As you can see the dropdown box top left lets you select the mode for the device and puts all the basic configuration options in one place. AP mode:   And CPE mode: The addition … Continue reading Quick Set Preview →

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 →

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.

I’ve been offered an RB1100 to review which I’ll be receiving later this week. The RB1100 is the successor to the RB1000 with more than double the ports and some unique features.. more on this later. Expect a review here sometime over the weekend when I’ve had a bit of a play 🙂 Greg Sowell … Continue reading RB1100 review coming soon. →