Tag Archives: RouterOS

From Bridges to Routes

A common problem amongst growing WISP businesses is rapid growth. Not a problem for the bottom line obviously, but once the owners see what is happening to their network, which is one single layer 2 bridge, they see they now have a problem they hadn’t planned for in advance.   …

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Quality Of Service

Example of QoS Bandwidth Shaping

We have been frequently asked to control a WISPs backhaul from excessive usage by a minority of their clients, which then in turn spoil the experience for the majority. In one case, a provider had a 200Mbps leased line and it was 100% saturated with Bit Torrent and Binary UUNet …

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MikroTik RouterOS v6rc1 released!

*RouterOS v6 release candidate 1 has been released* v6 has many new features, among them: – Doubles performance for Simple Queues – New kernel and drivers – Increases multicore system performance 25% or more – Increases single core performance 10% or more – High speed configuration for filters, scripting and …

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