Because reasons
Because reasons
What made you choose MikroTik over other networking vendors for your home network setup? Was it performance, affordability, ease of use, or specific features that stood out to you?
- European (and even better, Baltic) company
- Compared to OpenWRT, RouterOS is very well integrated and documented and works (at least most of the time)
- Very good price to performance& features ratio, esp. in the higher end enterprise switching/routing gear
I know I'm late to the party here.
Mikrotik is cheap and powerful. I wouldn't say it's easy tho.I do a lot of live events. So the biggest thing for me is to be able to slap down a basic network and have it work. And then when some crazy request or problem comes along, I can completely reconfigure it into a managed network with internet access, multiple WiFis and VLANs, do static DNS assignments, firewall tricks, VPNs and all that.
Sure, a CRS isn't going to be as full bandwidth as a CCR, but it's rare that I need to do full throughput routing/filtering/queues. Most of the time, I need something to get out of trouble or provide a "good enough solution". Most commonly, it's bridging onto some venue WiFi and providing internet to a bunch of local computers that need to download files.