I've always gotten good support from MT.

A forum is not support.

Any major problem I have contacted them with has been fixed in less than a day.

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On 1/9/2013 8:10 PM, Scott Reed wrote:
Yeah, their automated response that says someone will look at your 
problem suggests you send a .sup file.  However, when I have put a very 
detailed explanation of what I need help with, I have not had any 
problem getting an immediate, correct response from them.

On 1/9/2013 7:45 PM, Brian Rohrbacher wrote:
I've contacted MT support once.  It was a week ago.  I had an old 532
running 3.x and it wouldn't upgrade.  I went to the website, filled out
the form, attached the sup file and sent it.  I got a reply five minutes
later with a new key.  I upgraded.  Life is good.  :)

Brian


On 1/9/2013 5:15 PM, Scott Lambert wrote:
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 [email protected].  I don't understand the people who
complain on the forums that MT support is horrible and refuse to
e-mail [email protected].  I am not saying that Mike is one of
those guys.  I don't know if his statement is based on experience
with [email protected] 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.

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