Tag Archives: MikroTik

HowTo: Managing POE for multiple radios

A typical wireless broadband provider/WISP usually has multiple radios, each with their own POE connection. Here’s a way of providing Gigabit POE with the ability to power cycle individual radios: For Gigabit POE we use a MikroTik RouterBoard Gigabit Passive PoE Injector:   Each POE injector plugs into the main router …

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RouterOS v6.1 released

MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.1 What’s new in 6.1 (2013-Jun-12 11:50): pptp, l2tp – fixed crash when tunnel mru was too big and fragmented ip packet was received; hotspot – fixed problem when after upgrade hotspot html directory was empty; ipv6 nd – dns dynamic-servers were not …

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MikroTik RouterOS version 6.0 Released.

MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v6.0 What’s new in 6.0 (2013-May-17 14:04): ipsec – added /peer passive option which will prevent starting ISAKMP negotiation and signifies xauth responder/initiator side; RouterBOARD – default wireless config now includes password – serial number; lte – support YOTA WLTUBA-107; console – fixed …

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RouterOS v5.25 and v6rc14 released

MikroTik have announced the availability of RouterOS v5.25 and v6rc14 Here are the main changes: What’s new in 5.25 (2013-Apr-25 15:59): web proxy – speed up startup; metarouter – fixed occasional lockups on mipsbe boards; wireless – update required when using small width channel RB2011 RB9xx caveat: update remote end/s …

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MTCNA – April 2013

We’ve still got a couple of places left on the MTCNA (MikroTik Certified Network Associate) Training course. Come along to the Best Western Conference Hotel in Claydon (nr Ipswich) on Tuesday 16th April 2013 and over the three days learn about how to do the following list of topics with …

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‘WISP in a box’?

WiFi B/G/N Certified

Does this sound familiar? “We have multiple internet lines to our office with some spare capacity and we want to sell internet services to our local area as we know they don’t have good internet from the xDSL mainstream providers. What items do we need to put such a system …

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MikroTik MTCNA course

Our next MikroTik MTCNA course is running in November from the 20th to the 22nd. Location: Claydon Country House Hotel, nr Ipswich The Course This training course will provide you with the skills to configure a MikroTik RouterOS Routerboard as a dedicated router, a bandwidth manager, a secure firewall appliance, …

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RouterOS v5.21 released

The latest RouterOS stable version has been released. Of particular note are the SSTP high CPU fix, SMB shares from RouterOS can now be mounted from Linux, and the UPS monitoring over USB should be working again. What’s new in 5.21 (2012-Oct-12 08:25): route – fix dst-prefix filtering did not return …

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