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...🤣
dada
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New version! #MikroTik RouterOS 7.20beta5 is available in the Testing channel https://mikrotik.com/download
New version! #MikroTik RouterOS 7.20beta5 is available in the Testing channel https://mikrotik.com/download
Michael Dexter
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#Mikrotik Wish-List:
- Updated RB5009 with 1x SFP+, 1x 10gbaseT PoE, 7x 2.5GB PoE, higher speeds, multigig uplink port with PoE
- PoE version of the crs310-8G+2S+IN, ideally with the power on the back, but keeping the same size
- Maybe just a smaller version of the CRS309-1G-8S+IN, with half of the ports as 10gbaseT/PoE(?) for new generation access points, a little deeper but narrow enough to stack with other half-rack devices
@mikrotik@mikrotik.social 🥺👉👈
Michael Dexter
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New blog post: A detailed look at the new network setup
https://blog.transitory.social/posts/2025-07-02-network-rebuild-project/
Almost everything was rebuilt, and multiple layers of complexity were eliminated
#Homelab #Networking #Kubernetes #Mikrotik
New blog post: A detailed look at the new network setup
https://blog.transitory.social/posts/2025-07-02-network-rebuild-project/
Almost everything was rebuilt, and multiple layers of complexity were eliminated
#Homelab #Networking #Kubernetes #Mikrotik
#Mikrotik Wish-List:
- Updated RB5009 with 1x SFP+, 1x 10gbaseT PoE, 7x 2.5GB PoE, higher speeds, multigig uplink port with PoE
- PoE version of the crs310-8G+2S+IN, ideally with the power on the back, but keeping the same size
- Maybe just a smaller version of the CRS309-1G-8S+IN, with half of the ports as 10gbaseT/PoE(?) for new generation access points, a little deeper but narrow enough to stack with other half-rack devices
@mikrotik@mikrotik.social 🥺👉👈
New blog post: A detailed look at the new network setup
https://blog.transitory.social/posts/2025-07-02-network-rebuild-project/
Almost everything was rebuilt, and multiple layers of complexity were eliminated
#Homelab #Networking #Kubernetes #Mikrotik
💻 HomeLab & Mikrotik RB5009 💻
Do you really need the missing serial console for remote out-of-band managemnt, like most of their devices?
Well, I had one and then returned it for that reason. I've been considering it again, but not without the serial connection... so a little digging around and I found some PCB images and quick info on the OpenWRT site.
Then decided to add those bits to a fork for personal tracking... for those interested in the PCB photos and quick-doc:
- https://github.com/em-winterschon/openwrt-rb5009/pull/1/files
Clearly still a WIP, and would need to re-purchase the device to test it out... so perhaps in the next few months that will happen.
Some light discussion: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/add-support-for-mikrotik-rb5009ug/104391/3
