On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 14:15 -0700, Forbes Mercy wrote: > I keep adding filters as traffic presents itself but help and > training is very expensive and extraordinarily technical
While I would disagree that training is "very expensive", I would have to agree that it is very technical in nature. My training sessions are normally under $300/day for students (not counting hotels/flights/etc.). > On my backhauls > when one Mikrotik goes down its not unusual for the foul traffic to > permeate throughout (yes I'm bridged) the network and take down other > Mikrotik's and often requires a drive to reboot then they work fine > again, irritating, yes but still great equipment. Training would be especially good if you could learn something that would keep you from having to roll a truck even once every 2 weeks. It wouldn't take long to pay for that. > Ubiquiti is a monster for power and throughput, it's menus are basic > but filters entry options are slim and limited to IP rather than by > protocol so some things sneak through that wouldn't with Mikrotik. This, unfortunately, is one "cost" of less expensive gear. FWIW, you have most of the same functionality available in both platforms, but it's just not in the GUI for UBNT. > I promised an analogy so here goes, I feel from experience that Mikrotik > is the Linux of equipment, you better know what you're doing when you > buy it. UBNT is linux, too. :-) > Ubiquiti is like Windows, pretty GUI driven, and simplified at a > reasonable cost. You have access to iptables and more in the ssh/telnet interface with Ubiquiti. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ******************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
