Review on Mikrotik CCR1016-12G Routerboard: 🔁 Enhancing Cloud Core Router Performance by Tony Basler

Excellent router. Much easier to set up than the HPE MSR2000 Series I've worked with before. The quick setup wizard got an IP up and running almost instantly, and their wiki and talk pages have good guides on how to set up just about anything, at least at a basic level. It's an enterprise-class router, so it's not as easy to get up and running as a pre-configured consumer router, but again the operating system is very intuitive compared to offerings from Cisco and HPE (with the possible exception). (at least for my brain). the Aruba Instant series). , which are the easiest to set up I've seen). A front LCD for a quick overview of basic functions and I/O without logging into the operating system is great and can be rotated into software for use if you want to install the router upside down. The initial setup of this particular model does not pre-configure any LAN ports or a DHCP server, but if you connect using the WinBox software (this can be done on any Ethernet port using the router's MAC address) you can use Quick Use Set to quickly create basic LAN and WAN port settings, be it DHCP client or static IP. All in all, it took me a few hours to learn the basics of the operating system and get it up and running, but once I did it worked flawlessly and my trickier devices gave me far fewer problems with UPNP and streaming protocols . For your health.