Hi all Mikrotik addicts,

I'm planning to replace my home network this month. I have several devices out of date that aren't homogeneous.

For internet, i mounted a ptp wifi connection (LOS 1miles) with ubiquiti bulletM2 and 14dbi omnidirectional antenna. I have lot of interferences and limited bandwidth ( max 12 Mbps)

For routing, the box of my ISP's father take in charge this function and DHCP.

For switching, i used 2x 8gigabit ports switch cascaded.

For wifi, i have a two tplink router with AP to cover my house. So without roaming.

I would like garbage all this old stuff and buy new powerful network devices.

So my needs:

- two low cost gigabit CPE in 5GHz
- one rack mount router to load balance internet access with LTE connection.
-one rack mount managed switch with at least 16 gigabit ports and LCAP.
- two AP with a centralized management, roaming and an hot-spot features for my guests. This AP will be power on ethernet.

For CPE, the new LHG5 is good but without gigabit port. No way. The sxt lite5 ac same default. So for this device, i looked for an alternative. Ubiquiti has launched his new low cost ac gigabit CPE named litebeam ac. Unless I have mistaken, Mikrotik don't sell a low cost CPE (< 70€) with this features. So Ubiquiti choice seems good.

For routing and switching, my first idea was a couple of a RB3011 and a 24 gigabit ports dlink switch. But this solution is expensive.

So i looked the CRS125-24G-1S-RM. This all-in-box board seems respond to my needs. But I have read some topics that talk about the poor performance of this device. In my context (no VPN, no NAT), do you think that CRS can be impact with this performance issue?
That's a good choice for my home network?

For AP, the hAP lite seems good. Can I manage this AP in Capsman?

Thanks in advance for your advices.

Best regards.

PS: sorry for my english.

Who you call "addicts"? Here are fans, users, admins but no addicts...

What bandwidth under what conditions you want to route / nat?

Who you call "addicts"? Here are fans, users, admins but no addicts...

What bandwidth under what conditions you want to route / nat?

Sorry if this word is out of context. I'm a french guy who is not fluent in English.

I want to prepare my network for 1gbps Internet. The deployement of FTTH is plan for 2018.

Then forget the crs125. You will need ccr to have enough processing power to make whatever manipulation or check on the packets on such speed.

Then forget the crs125. You will need ccr to have enough processing power to make whatever manipulation or check on the packets on such speed.

Why need packet inspection for home? Do you think those guests are not trustworthy?

Thanks you for your advice. But CCR is out of budget.

The rb2011/3011 are same limit than CRS?

With CRS what is the maximum bandwidth that is capable to route?

depends on what you will do with the traffic

if you need internet access and NAT, it will be fast. if you don't trust your LAN and will be doing all kinds of user checks, it will start to affect speed

Then forget the crs125. You will need ccr to have enough processing power to make whatever manipulation or check on the packets on such speed.

Why need packet inspection for home? Do you think those guests are not trustworthy?

I don't need packet inspection. My need is just to route packets to internet. No vpn, no complex firewall rules...

Normis, do you think that CRS is a good choice for my needs?

in that case, fasttrack will be usable and it will be very fast

Yes. You can get close to gigabit with fasttrack on all traffic. Hope you will no need queues...
But you can start with CRS125 and when you will need more power in the future, you can keep it as pure switch and add some more powerful router in front of it.

Ok. I'm going to buy a CRS for routing and switching with fasttrack enabled. Thanks for your advices.

For Wifi, hAP lite can be managed by Capsman?

Ok. I'm going to buy a CRS for routing and switching with fasttrack enabled. Thanks for your advices.

For Wifi, hAP lite can be managed by Capsman?

Any device running RouterOS with wireless interfaces can be managed by CAPsMAN. That includes the hAP lite.

L4 license needed for capsman! All devices aren't L4

L4 license needed for capsman! All devices aren't L4

I think buy a CRS125 with L5 license. So it's good..