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I used Microtik routers for a few years, I felt nerdy and in control and all that. Until one day one of them bricked itself completely while updating itself. I replaced it with a off-the-shelf consumer one and realised immediately that it was a LOT faster than the fancy Microtik. Experience of One of course, but well, I never bought another.

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Had several as well. Ended up going back to DDWRT routers with Ubiquiti APs. The interface is much more intuitive and the routers seemed faster. Don't really miss winbox. It took a lot more work with MicroTik/Winbox to do the same with DDWRT. 'The Dude' interface was cool, but just didn't really have time to manage or explore more. DDWRT was so much easier :/

I have no experience with Microtik, but you dont seem to be comparing like generations. A newer router will beat an older one just due to the march of technology.

I had the same experience with Mikrotik routers. Same generation devices. Also suffered from random drops of the network. Very good transmission distance when it worked.

Except that, because of NetInstall, it's almost impossible to brick a Mikrotik. If you still have the bootloader, you aren't bricked.

And further, there are Mikrotiks for nearly any use case, from <100M to 10G. These things have speed ratings for a reason. I run a quadcore ARM unit now, and it's blazing fast, way overpowered for what I use it for. Before that I ran a dual-core PowerPC unit, that easily did 1G (unless you were throwing IPSec at it), for around $100.

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