On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:30:17PM -0400, Al Jachimiak wrote: > Does anyone have experience with Microtik equipment? > > I was looking into a cheap wireless access point: > http://routerboard.com/RB951-2n > > I had heard some good things about their products but I was hoping > that someone here has some first person experience. > > By the way, here is a link to a demo of their routerOS: > http://demo.mt.lv/
People tend to love it or hate it. They've been around for a while. Depends a lot on what you want to do. For a small deploy you could also look at ubiquity - they make some good gear for small scale stuff. For larger deploys your major concern is going to be manageability and coordination; I don't think routeros offers the best options there, you could look at aerohive and aruba instant, which are both priced a fair bit below the full enterprise offerings from aruba, cisco, etc. Lately aerohive has impressed me a lot. If you're just doing a home deploy - microtik is probably fine, but so are a lot of consumer APs with either good stock firmware, or ddwrt/opnenwrt. The asus n66u comes to mind as an excellent one at the moment which seems to be absurdly fast and have absurdly good radios in it - i'm quite surprised at the range I'm getting w/out doing any optimizations. -m --
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