As many of you are probably aware, a lot of Ubiquiti devices running old firmware are under a new wave of attack taking advantage of an old vulnerability that was fixed a year ago. In response to this latest wave of problems for some WISPs, Ubiquiti have thoughtfully emailed everyone on their …

When creating complex firewall rules on MikroTik routers, especially those with high levels of packet throughput, it is important that any rules are processed in an efficient manner. Firewall rules are processed top down. Every new packet is tested against each rule until a match is found. For high packet count traffic, …

We’ve recently received a delivery of Netonix switches. We thought we would blog about how amazing these things are, except one of our customers, Wessex Internet beat us to it! If like those guys, you’re running your own WISP and need to power Ubiquiti or MikroTik radios, we have always advocated using …

When you add some rules into the firewall, it can be the case that Hardware Offloading is disabled without your knowledge! Before we re-enabled Hardware Offloading on the PPPoE client it was only able to handle about 140-150Mbps of throughput. After we re-enabled it, the throughput went up to 296Mbps on …

Ubiquiti released new firmware three weeks ago for their AirMax and AirFiber radios to fix a serious vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated users to gain access.  In theory no one except internal support staff should be able to get access to any interface of your internal radio network. But just in case any one …

We will be holding another Ubiquiti UBWA (Ubiquiti Broadband Wireless Admin) training course very soon and we still have a few places left, so why not come along to our Air Conditioned Head Office Training Suite in Needham Market (between Ipswich and Stowmarket in Suffolk) on Tuesday 7th July 2015 and over the two days learn a mix …

MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.28 Here is the changelog: email – increase server greeting timeout to 60s lte – ZTE MF823 may loose configuration userman – update paypal root certificate timezone – updated timezone information to 2015b release cm2 – fixed capsman v2 100% CPU and other …

  MikroTik have confirmed that no version of RouterOS suffers from the security vulnerability CVE-2015-0235. See Mikrotik Forum for confirmation.      

CAPsMAN is a very useful method of setting up a large number of APs (CAPs) in a building, but how can you help a client to roam better?  The problem is that clients can get “sticky”. They refuse to disconnect themselves from an AP, even though they have actually moved their …

A frequent request we receive is how to use a MikroTik Router to get more bandwidth by ‘joining’ multiple internet feeds together. There are a number of different methods, however it’s a good moment to clarify that the term ‘line bonding’ is not the same as ‘Load balancing’. With line bonding …