![]() ![]() Google 'microtik essential firewall rules' and watch the youtube tutorial #29. NOT ENOUGH!! After a week I was getting failed login attempts every second form multiple sources all over the world. UPDATE: Important!!!! You MUST add some firewall rules and go through the Mikrotik Wiki to secure this router or it will be hacked!!! I installed mine, updated the router OS to the latest version and changed the ADMIN password. The Mikrotik only has 2 quiet fans and barely puts out any heat. My power draw is 8x less and I no longer have 5 screaming fans from the HP to talk over. Later I will find more information concerning best security practices and hardening of this box so I am not a target for hackers. I only took me a couple of hours to find some tutorials online for things like setting Static IP address, changing DNS servers, upgrading the firmware and setting up the DHCP stuff. Currently I use an R7000 and a WRT1900AC running DD-WRT setup as access points only(no routing). My next step is to eventually install proper access points and power those with the need for a wall wart in whatever house we move to soon. ![]() I'm sure that I can grow with this setup to do all those things I want to do. It was appealing that this device's router OS has a following and is often used in business environments. In all honesty I do not need most of the features this device has (which are numerous). I will also run the 4th fiber link to the media room to access content from the servers. I wanted to be able to move large multi gigabyte media files to the servers at HD speeds and not be limited to the roughly 115MB/sec of gigabit ethernet. I have a couple of proper Win 2012R2 media servers and a Threadripper workstation I do most of my home based business and personal things on. I have no desire to learn another command line interface. I don't manage routers and switches for a living so a GUI was a must for me. The Mikrotik also has a comprehensive GUI (WinBox). ![]() I no longer needed more than 24 ports like I did last year. I wanted something with four 10GBit links like the HP. The PFSense i7 CPU PC mini tower router is powerful, flexible but takes up lots of space and consumes another 100 Watts. It is a server 19' rack enterprise switch. The HP switch was large, LOUD, put out a LOT of heat and sucks down 200-300watts of power. I had been using a large HP 2900-48G switch and a PFSense i7-7700K PC based router for my home network. ![]()
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