[kwlug-disc] need a new router -- which one?

[Joe Wennechuk]

I love the mikrotik routers, and have used ansible to configure them during automated setups using the raw module like...
ansible -m raw -a "ip dns static assress=10.9.101.56 name=server56.mycompany.lan"

> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 01:49:17 -0500
> From: paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] need a new router -- which one?
> 
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 11:34:32PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 09:12:55PM -0500, Paul Nijjar wrote:
> > > 
> > > Also the WRT54GL is not as well-supported as it used to be. OpenWRT
> > > has effectively dropped support for it. We still use them as access
> > > points for now, but I do not think we will be buying more. Sadly, I
> > > think we have gone proprietary: we now buy Mikrotik routers, which are
> > > highly configurable and pretty cheap. 
> > 
> > Which model of Mikrotik?  And, who is your source?  These aren't the
> > usual retail products.
> 
> We have purchased: 
> 
> - RB951G-2HnD (about $90)
> - RB951-2n (about $50, but I think is now obsolete -- maybe replaced
> with the RB951Ui-2HnD?)
> 
> Our most recent purchases were from solimedia.net, but we have also
> purchased from xagyl.com . 
> 
> One thing that distinguishes the cheaper routers from the more
> expensive ones are gigabit ports built in. For our application 100Mbit
> was okay, so we tended to get the cheaper routers. 
> 
> Note that we have mostly been using these as wired routers, not
> wireless ones. (There may have been one or two locations where we
> depended on the wireless.) However, from casual testing it seems that
> the wireless strength is okay even though the antennas are built in. 
> 
> - Paul
> 
> -- 
> http://pnijjar.freeshell.org
> 
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