On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:04:18PM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: > I've been using both MT and UBNT for many many years and I plan to > use them both for many years. MT support has been almost completely > absent, while UBNT typically answers fairly quickly. That said, > usually when I notice a problem with my MT product, it's already been > fixed in a newer release. >
MT support in their forum is hit and miss. I get timely responses from supp...@mikrotik.com. I don't understand the people who complain on the forums that MT support is horrible and refuse to e-mail supp...@mikrotik.com. I am not saying that Mike is one of those guys. I don't know if his statement is based on experience with supp...@mikrotik.com or not. The east europe/western asia folks just seem to have a bit of a different take on things than we in North America do. I think that's just due to the culture and language differences. They tend to come off as being a bit brusk to us. I don't trust any newly shipping product in a production environment. They go into designated test environments. The Edge Router may be the best thing since sliced bread. However, the devices I've used the Quagga stack on have let me down more than the MikroTik routing stack. Of course, most of those Quagga devices were StarOS which had its own problems. Thankfully, we have completed our 100% StarOS to 100% UBNT AP/backhaul radios with MikroTik routers transition. When I get an Edge Router, I will play with it on the desk. Then it will be put a nearby but small tower site. If it behaves, I'll put one on a non-leaf node tower. I'm not in a hurry to get my first EdgeRouter. Until then, I really like my 493Gs running 5.21. We have not run any production MikroTik wireless gear. We just haven't. We picked up some Ubiquiti gear first. No other reason. I have 6.0rc6 on the MikroTik in the house. It has wireless. It works for my personal devices. I wouldn't consider using RouterOS 6 on customer use gear, yet. Not even when they are calling it the 6th release candidate. It's not a release candidate if you are still adding new features. If you are still adding new features, it is an alpha release... I have a couple of RB2011UAS units on the bench. They aren't in the field for the same reason I would not rush to put the EdgeRouter in the field. UBNT and MikroTik both have software QA issues. At this price point, we get to be the alpha/beta testers. C'est la vie. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lamb...@lambertfam.org _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
