Tag Archives: MikroTik

  MikroTik's latest and greatest NetMetal 5 is here supporting the revolutionary 802.11AC technology to achieve modulation rates of up to 866Mbps over a wireless link which allows maximum data throughput of up to 540 Mbps.

MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOs 6.19 Here is the changelog: wireless – improvements for nv2 and 802.11ac sstp – make sstp work on i386 as well; ippool – improve performance when acquiring address without preference; partitions – copying partitions did not work on some boards; bridge – added …

MikroTik’s new SXT-5HPacD is here and boasts some great advantages over previous models, supporting the new wireless 802.11ac technology which boasts some revolutionary breakthroughs in throughput performance with up to 866Mbit datarate along with 256-QAM modulation and 80MHz channels. The new SXT ac range also support using within 802.11a & …

MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.16. This has now been upgraded to 6.17 to fix a bug in the CCR1009 switch chip on ether ports 1-4 This is the first release to include support for 802.11ac, using the QCA9880/9882 rev2 (-BR4A) wireless chipsets. Another new feature is the …

The long-awaited CAPsMAN Wireless Controller system from MikroTik announced at their recent User Meeting in Venice is now available for deployment and testing by Beta Testers.  We are actively testing this and will bring more news as soon as we get more familiar with it! But so far, we can …

Once again LinITX were in attendance at the European venue for MikroTik’s User Meeting.  Each year it gets larger with MikroTik stating that it was nearly the largest event so far, at approximately 1200 attendees. Ron Touw usually contributes to the meetings with a technical presentation and/or delivers Training in …

If like myself, you are becoming tired of the Microsoft adverts within current versions of Skype, copy/paste this into your Mikrotik Router’s CLI (if it is providing you with your DNS Service). /ip dns static add address=127.0.0.1 name=ad-emea.doubleclick.net add address=127.0.0.1 name=ads2.msads.net add address=127.0.0.1 name=msntest.serving-sys.com

The EdgeRouter Lite from Ubiquiti promises excellent performance for a great price. So what performance can you get out of it ? We tested two things: 1) a typical routed configuration, including NAT, and stateful firewalling. 2) IPSec over a routed connection. Here are the headline figures: (tests using iperf …

MikroTik announced today “The RB951Ui-2HnD is a wireless SOHO AP with a new generation Atheros CPU and more processing power. It has five  Ethernet ports, one USB 2.0 port and a high power 2.4GHz 1000mW 802.11b/g/n wireless AP with antennas built in. It has a 600MHz CPU,128MB of RAM and …

The Smart PowerBank PoE 16V is a really handy device for wireless installers and surveyors, in fact anyone who needs POE power and isn’t near mains power: Simply a nicely packaged battery pack which supplies 16V DC @ 600mA to your POE device, you can connect it up like this: It’s ideal for use with …