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MikroTik Routers and Switches

MikroTik Routers and Switches

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What is MikroTik Routers and Switches?

Latvian company MikroTik offers routers and switches.

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What is MikroTik Routers and Switches?

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MikroTik router boards have gained recognition for their ability to solve network problems, making them a recommended choice for businesses. Initially implemented in the systems department, the product has successfully expanded its reach throughout the entire company, effectively addressing all network requirements. What started as an experimental solution during the R&D process has evolved into a fully cloud-managed suite with added enhancements and functions not available natively on MikroTik RouterOS.

The affordability, power, and ease of deployment make MikroTik routers a desirable option for various users, including both production and back-end systems. While it may pose a challenge for beginner engineers, it has proven to be a reliable choice for one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the country. These companies utilize MikroTik routers to connect remote sites via internet links to the head office, achieving auto failover between multiple links by deploying MikroTik routers as gateways running BGP with the ISP.

For over four years, MikroTik CCR-1036 and CCR-1072 routers and switches have played crucial roles in providing ease of use and efficient data processing at the core of numerous organizations. Additionally, RB devices have been successfully deployed as Client CPE, delivering excellent results. However, challenges do exist in terms of lacking a direct support channel and incompatibility issues during update processes.

MikroTik has positioned itself as the preferred choice for building new networks, upgrading existing ones, and replacing faulty routers and switches for Managed Service Providers. With seamless infrastructure operation and capabilities such as bandwidth monitoring and traffic shaping, MikroTik routers offer valuable support to diverse industries, such as education. In the education sector, these routers are widely used to teach various network configuration functions like DHCP, MPLS, OSPF, RIP, VLAN, VPN, IP addressing, and WLAN. Furthermore, MikroTik routers are highly useful for teaching routing protocols, making them an indispensable tool for enhanced education in teleinformatica.

Bandwidth distribution prioritization: Some users have praised the product for allowing them to establish a distribution of bandwidth by areas, prioritizing access for departments that need it the most. This feature has efficiently covered the needs of many companies.

Real-time bandwidth statistics: Many users appreciate the product's ability to provide real-time statistics on bandwidth consumption, allowing them to track usage by user, IP, network fragment, department, and unit. This valuable feature helps in monitoring and optimizing network performance.

Cost-effective solution with additional features: Several reviewers have mentioned that adding different DSL connections to increase bandwidth is seen as a cost-effective solution offered by the product. They also note that compared to other brands at a similar price point, this product offers more features which make it an attractive option.

Unintuitive Configuration: Some users have found the configuration of the operating system routerOS to be unintuitive and requiring advanced knowledge in computer science and free operating systems for maintenance. They have expressed frustration with the complexity of the setup process and the difficulty in navigating through the system's settings.

Expensive Load Balancing: Several users have mentioned that load balancing requires multiple MikroTik devices, making the implementation more expensive. This additional cost can be a barrier for small businesses or individuals looking to implement load balancing on their network.

High Cost of Macro Business Solutions: Users have expressed concerns about the high cost of devices for macro business solutions, requiring a significant initial investment in hardware. The expense involved in setting up these solutions may deter some businesses from adopting them, especially smaller organizations with limited budgets.

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Affordable, it has more features compared to other brand at the same price.
  • Widely available, by today it's easy to obtained one, even online retailers sell it.
  • Highly customizable, you may write a powerful script to enhance the function.
  • Flexible, you can make different configuration approach based on you needs.
  • Hardware, current ARM based hardware turned out having stability issue. Uncommanded reboot and hang/lock-up occured sometimes.
  • Wi-Fi algorithm, in some cases the wireless module has performance issue.
  • New function that needed by today standard like secure DNS, improved VPN support like WireGuard, etc.
  • Add more function on the script to easy the management and maintenance, like ability to invoce wireless snooper from script.
Adrian Takacs | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • When you are creating a firewall filter rule on a router, the amount of options you have is incredible. For example, most other firewalls or routers will not give you the option to select a connection state, a packet size, specify the packet content etc.
  • You can use the routers in transparent mode, when your router is placed in front of a customer firewall or customer router, allowing only the allocated public IP address to communicate with the Internet and allowing you to allocate a certain bandwidth or speed.
  • The lowest end model routers have the same operating system, features as the more expensive ones making simple for us to test configuration on cheap equipment before commit to buy the more expensive one. The licensing model is very simple as well and easy to understand.
  • The cheapest routers also come with one SFP port, which is great as it is allowing us to connect fiber straight into it. No extra PoE injectors and converter are needed, reducing the number of points of failure.
  • Some of the wiki articles have not been updated or are not accurate enough. We spent a couple of days trying to find an example of implementing a mobile IPSec client solution. But once this has been implemented, it has been solid (always worked). A bigger community would help, and I am finding it hard to find the time to contribute to these articles.
Carlos Alberto Pedron Espinett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It allowed to establish a distribution by areas of the bandwidth allowing to prioritize the access to it to the departments that most needed it
  • It allows to obtain real statistics by user, IP, fragment of network, department and unit of the consumption of bandwidth of the company.
  • Different DSL connections were added to obtain a larger bandwidth and thus be able to efficiently cover the needs of the company.
  • The configuration of the operating system routerOS is not intuitive, it requires advanced knowledge in computer science and free operating systems for its maintenance.
  • To make the load balancing is necessary to have more than one MikroTik device so its implementation in case of that being the solution sought is more expensive.
  • The cost of the devices for solutions at the macro business level is very high, it is a solution whose initial investment requires an important budget
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Routing protocols.
  • Configuring it is simple and intuitive.
  • IP addressing, and VLAN creation.
  • Multi protocol usage.
  • Mikrotik routers are full of protocols that can be enabled and configured in a quick and simple way.
  • WLAN and hotspot configuration is simple.
  • Not every aspect of functionality is well described and that would be a point for improvement.
  • There could be a tool for firewall testing.
  • Open VPN should be more intuitive.
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