Time to play with the new "toys"!
Good news: my three #MikroTik cap ax arrived two days earlier than expected, so I'm going to the supplier's warehouse later today.
New toys to play with 😆
I just ordered 3 MikroTik cAP AX as I need to test them. Now, I'm considering to sell one of the two Ruckus, but it's so expensive it won't be easy to sell it to one of my clients. Nobody of them needs one powerful device as many prefer more, scattered devices. Decentralization, wifi style - I taught them the right lesson.
The Ruckus is a beast and I love it. But the old cAP AC is reaching some remote points that the Ruckus can't reach. Weird, but true.
And I still have all the cabling I did during the 2020 Covid lockdown, just for fun.
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It's been a long day. Tomorrow though, I really need this MikroTik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe, running the home router, to be quiet. Therefore, lay in bed, figure out which Thermal Grizzly conductive pad is most appropriate for replacement between the NIC's heatsink.. and maybe there a STL file for making a carbon fitment plus copper core (taken from an old Broadwell system, heatsink with a couple of blah blah blah... yep. Go to sleep brain, stop this, maybe more tomorrow.
So GPT-Pro and Deep Research... tell me what to buy.
#homelab #tired #mikrotik #intel #mellanox #networking #sleepy #uuuuuuugh #gptpro
It's been a long day. Tomorrow though, I really need this MikroTik CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe, running the home router, to be quiet. Therefore, lay in bed, figure out which Thermal Grizzly conductive pad is most appropriate for replacement between the NIC's heatsink.. and maybe there a STL file for making a carbon fitment plus copper core (taken from an old Broadwell system, heatsink with a couple of blah blah blah... yep. Go to sleep brain, stop this, maybe more tomorrow.
So GPT-Pro and Deep Research... tell me what to buy.
#homelab #tired #mikrotik #intel #mellanox #networking #sleepy #uuuuuuugh #gptpro
As of this afternoon, my home Wi-Fi network is (once again) being managed by the old MikroTik Cap AC mounted on a wall. The last time I tried it, it worked well, but some peripheral areas seemed to have poor coverage (compared to the Ruckus r650 I normally use). I still have three of these MikroTiks, which were my access points about six years ago (and up until almost two years ago). With the wave2 drivers, just one of them now covers the entire house.
What amazes me is how a firmware update has revolutionized the device's experience. It consumes a fraction of the [power of the] Ruckus and, at the moment, it doesn't make me miss it.
Will I keep it running? Maybe not, at least not in the long run. I have the Ruckus; it probably wouldn't make sense to leave it switched off. Furthermore, when FTTH arrives, it will be a bottleneck. But the freedom these devices provide, even just at the scripting level, is truly remarkable.
Keeping an eye on the queues, load balancing and failover I configured over the weekend on a client's router.
The client has a terrible, unreliable FTTC connection. So, this morning, I've been testing several devices and 4G carriers to find a reliable alternative when the FTTC is full/down.
The good, old LTE12 Chateau is the best for this task, giving a stable and reliable 220/50 Mbit/sec thanks to carrier aggregation.
The newer but smaller hAP ax lite LTE6 is still giving a good result, around 100/50 - expected, as it's "only" a LTE6. This will probably come to my office, while I'm waiting for the Chateau 5G (LTE20) to arrive - probably not before middle of November.
Now, I need to create proper queues and rules to manage the two connections - at the moment, I've implemented only the failover and some simple queues on the FTTC.
Lunch time.
Stefano Marinelli
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New version! #MikroTik RouterOS 7.20.1 is available in the Stable channel https://mikrotik.com/download
New version! #MikroTik RouterOS 7.20.1 is available in the Stable channel https://mikrotik.com/download
Stefano Marinelli
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Michael Dexter
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Well, this was a surprise. Decided to run a simple LAN ping test between two of my access points, and the results were not what I expected.
Contender 1: The "mighty" Ubiquiti UniFi AC Lite
Contender 2: The tiny MikroTik mAP Lite
The winner? By a long shot, the MikroTik! It showed much better stability and lower latency.
The Stats:
- MikroTik: Avg 8.2ms / Jitter 10ms
- Ubiquiti: Avg 15.4ms / Jitter 32.1ms
Goes to show that size isn't everything in the world of networking.
#SysAdmin #NetworkGear #Ubiquiti #MikroTik #WiFi #HomeNetworking #IT #HomeLab
Well, this was a surprise. Decided to run a simple LAN ping test between two of my access points, and the results were not what I expected.
Contender 1: The "mighty" Ubiquiti UniFi AC Lite
Contender 2: The tiny MikroTik mAP Lite
The winner? By a long shot, the MikroTik! It showed much better stability and lower latency.
The Stats:
- MikroTik: Avg 8.2ms / Jitter 10ms
- Ubiquiti: Avg 15.4ms / Jitter 32.1ms
Goes to show that size isn't everything in the world of networking.
#SysAdmin #NetworkGear #Ubiquiti #MikroTik #WiFi #HomeNetworking #IT #HomeLab
@stefano
I don't own a device from MikroTik yet, but followed reports by tech people who swear by the price / performance / quality ratio of this devices.
My next Wi-Fi router will most definitely be MikroTik. Same with my next managed switch that will have 2.5 Gbit
Well, this was a surprise. Decided to run a simple LAN ping test between two of my access points, and the results were not what I expected.
Contender 1: The "mighty" Ubiquiti UniFi AC Lite
Contender 2: The tiny MikroTik mAP Lite
The winner? By a long shot, the MikroTik! It showed much better stability and lower latency.
The Stats:
- MikroTik: Avg 8.2ms / Jitter 10ms
- Ubiquiti: Avg 15.4ms / Jitter 32.1ms
Goes to show that size isn't everything in the world of networking.
#SysAdmin #NetworkGear #Ubiquiti #MikroTik #WiFi #HomeNetworking #IT #HomeLab
Ever since I hung the Ruckus on the wall, all peripheral coverage issues disappeared. At that point, I decided to try re-hanging the old MikroTik cAP AC (with the wave2 drivers) in the same spot to compare.
All in all, it performs well there too, and all devices remain stably connected, albeit with a lower signal level. I imagine, however, that if there were 40 devices, I'd already see some differences.
Now I'm curious to test a cAP AX...🤣