RouterBOARD hEX lite 5 ports router 5 X 10/100 PoE OSL4 - (RB750r2)

For the price, it's going to be hard to find a better router. For simple uses, it's very plug-and-play and works great out of the box with minimal configuration. For anyone who wants to do further configuring, the option is certainly there. This is carrier-grade hardware and the configuration interface clearly echoes that. This can be used for literally any networking application you'd like and the options are nothing if not extensive. Awesome piece of hardware all in all.

This is a great little wired only ethernet router ... but pass if you are not knowledgeable in networking or have a network admin friend to help you. I bought this to replace an old Pentium 4 (yes P4) running a custom Linux firewall distribution. The old machine had a hardware failure, so I need something in the interim to replace it. I already use a Mikrotik wireless access point, so I figure it was a safe bet for the price. In a word, it's rock solid, it works, and I don't plan on replacing it. It only has 10/100 wired ethernet ports, which is fine in my scenario, but you may want to get the Mikrotik hEX (non - lite) version if you need 10/100/1000 ports.

This router is small but very versatile and offers an overwhelming amount of settings. I bought it especially to create several VLANS and must admit that I thought this would be easier. But I had little detailed knowledge of how to program a router for more complex tasks and did not have the time to study it, so I hired someone over the internet to do this for me remotely. It works perfectly and I am very happy with this little router.

This router appears to have as much functionality as similar routers that cost hundreds of times as much as this one does. I can set up IPSec VPN tunnels with this thing. It can do traffic generation for testing. You can insert PCAP captures and it will feed them on to your network. You can modify the MTU's of all the interfaces. It can send text messages... I didn't even know that was possible. It can do some security testing - ping floods, IP half scans. It can send emails. I have yet to figure out what it CAN'T do. I came back after using the restroom and it had made me a cup of coffee. Seriously. This router is NOT for novices. If it lasts for a while, I am going to buy several more of them.

Don't recommend. Unfortunately stopped working at 10 months, still within warranty period, difficult customer service with Mikrotik and GETIC, the Amazon seller, refuses to initiate RMA warranty repair as directed by the manufacturer. Amazon also refuses to do anything. In the end, a warranty is just a piece of paper, only as good as the seller you're buying from

It has all the options you could ask for, except retaining settings. Is it really so much to ask that it doesn't switch from bridge to router? If the device would stay in bridge mode, I'd give it 5 stars. Update: Upgrading to the release-candidate resolved my issues. Updating from 3 to four stars. It's equally nice and annoying a DHCP relay has to be setup as well (even easy mode in RC release won't do it for you). Finding that updates can't be installed offline through the UI amongst other nuances is why I can't give this product 5 stars. This product is great, I can imagine software updates will fix all the issues soon.

NOTE: This is a wired router. It does not project WiFi; you must use an ethernet cable to connect to it. If you need WiFi, your best option is to find a different router, like the RB952Ui-5ac2nD or the RB941-2nD-TC. I honestly do not understand how they keep the price so low. I spent a while looking for routers, and this was the best deal I could find by a long shot. I was skeptical at first, but it really is as good as everyone is saying. This little thing can do just about anything you want plus 100 more things. You do not need to be an expert to use this, but if you are one, you will love it. Basic setup is just as easy as it is with other routers; I just plugged it in and it started working (automatic IP, firewall, DHCP, etc.). Advanced setup like routing and pools is more difficult. However, I'm not a networking expert and still figured out how to turn the router into a free, personal L2TP VPN, so the interface is still user-friendly, just tailored to people who want to tell the router exactly what to do. You can have full control over nearly everything it does. Support is awesome with Mikrotik. They have a huge wiki and a helpful community. UPDATE This thing is a beast (a good beast). After using it daily for the past 16 months, I still haven't needed to reboot it. Not once. It keeps on keeping on like a champ.

This is a really great product for the price, but it should be noted that it's PoE only in that it can be powered by an ethernet connection; unless I'm missing something, it does not appear to be able to power another device via PoE. RouterOS (the on-board operating system) offers many of the features of a far more expensive product for those who understand networking, and is configurable via command line (via ssh) or a surprisingly good web interface.

el producto es una verdadera solucion en custiones de conectividad, seguro, confiable y administrable al 100%, con soporte por parte del fabricante. no es un producto para principiantes la imprementacion en modo router puede llegar a ser muy robusta, todo depende de quien lo configure. es muy util para realizar vlan, o subneting y administrar AP. lo unico malo es que es fast ethernet pero aun asi por 1000 pesos no se compara con las cosas sencillas y caras de asus u otras marcas similares.

Ich nutze den Router zur Strukturierung meines Hausnetzes hinter dem Provider-Router, geht perfekt, endlich hat man die Möglichkeit sein Netz wirklich zu strukturieren und zu administrieren. Die Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten sind sehr umfangreich, ich nutze nur Teilfeatures. Tutorials im Netz bringen die nötigen Informationen. Hätte ich früher machen sollen.

So much to say about these. They're so good, you can run DHCP and DNS on these as backups for your servers, or even in replacement of your server for these services if your network is simple enough (not recommended for complex networks obviously). Can also do multiple subnets for internet connection splitting between offices (i.e. tenant1, tenant2, segregated networks), or for having a completely separate guest wifi network. They're easy (if you work in the trade) to configure, but not simple. You do have to have a grounding in networking to get along with these, but if you do you will find these are so powerful, almost ISP class features. They probably do more than the average home user would ever need, but represent excellent VFM for SMSP's providing to SME's.

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