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Review on MikroTik Cloud Router Switch CRS109 8G 1S 2HnD IN by Mike Starling

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Highly functional integrated router/switch. Bear for customization.

One of these has been running on my home network for several years. It is extremely efficient and offers very advanced networking features. However, if you need to move away from the integrated configuration of a simple wireless network and switch, you need experience in a CCNA layer network. The documentation on how it works is fragmented and some topics are not well covered. It's been a few years but I found their forum useless as my questions weren't answered. I've finally learned enough about this - YouTube videos, wikis, web searches - the main thing for me was to block the wireless network from my wired network. Wireless can only communicate with the Internet. So if someone connects to it, they cannot access the local network. I did this in a firewall and had to look into the *nix firewall configuration. So overall very satisfied but configuration can be tedious and time consuming.

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