The hardware quality does not meet my expectation too. The LTE model is so expensive that I’ll certainly choose a cheap Huawei USB LTE modem plus a cheap USB hub plugged into a old model. It’s so much larger than hAP ac 2, and the SFP port on the hAP ac is nowhere to be found on the hAP ac 3. Get yourself some second hand SFP+ modules as they are better in a magnitude. 2.5G/5G/10G copper solutions are too expensive and have a bad user experience. (What, you say the 2.5Gbps port? I avoid copper cables as much as possible. It’s small enough to be put into a home, and it has decent performance, plus a SFP+ port! Well, 2 SFP+ ports might be better so I can set up LACP, but RB5009 comes with a form factor so much better than its predecessors. RB5009 is MikroTik’s response to this ever-growing niche market. A form factor of 1U makes it too weird for homes, and its bad performance has always been a drawback every time I try to use it in a more “pro” environment. I’ve been a long time user of RB2011/RB3011/RB4011. interrupt affinity) for CCR2 to be even considered for a full replacement of CCR1 series.

There are still a lot of things in software to optimize (e.g. Thus said, high-end CCR1 series has always been used in the role of BRAS due to its ability to terminate a lot PPPoE sessions and process a lot queues parallelly thank to its high core count. This shed some light on the performance of their high-end routers when being used as BGP border routers. Support for Tile architecture been dropped by Linux in early 2018, MikroTik has been building their new gears on several ARM (aarch64) CPUs. This is the MikroTik way to find its position in the market. They pack a lot functionalities into all their products so you can kind of expect a high baseline of what a low-end MikroTik device can do (not in terms of performance, obviously).

They produce some products that perfectly match some weird usage I needed.This is not to say their product is good (the “good” good), but: MikroTik has always been the definitive choice if my purchase target is the cost effectiveness. In this series, I’m going to talk about some major networking hardware vendors, their hardware and software, their achievements and what to expect if you buy their hardware in 2022. This is the first article of The Networking Hardware Vendors Assessment 2021 series.

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