I spent the better part of the weekend fighting a problem with version 6.x. This has cost me a lot of time and I am very close to dumping all my Mikrotik hardware due to the time it takes for ME to troubleshoot problems every time there is a new version. Here is what I found out. I have a wireless network that uses a single router as the entry point that runs both hotspot and user manager (no radio). Last year I was using a RB433UAH but that router developed a boot loop at some time over our off season. I purchased a new RB2011UiAS-RM to replace it. Everything was set up and running fine for about a week until this router started to boot loop. The LCD would say loading services and then beep and reboot. I configured a brand new RB2011iL-IN in order to get things running and had that working until it stared to do the same thing. I could get both working by doing a net install to base configuration. What I figure out after a LOT of re-installs was the routers would fail right after I put users into the user manager database. It seems to be dependent on the number of users generated. 300 did not course failure but 1000 did. I suspect that my old 433 failed because it was updated from 5.26 to 6.10 this winter. I know this is a problem with 6.12 because I have repeated the problem. I suspect it is a problem with all 6.x. I have sent this issue to support.
Your post has not value.
I use 6.7 from the date it went out, and never I have one problem.
The problems start from 6.8 when ppp is rewritten from scratch for fastpath.
You generalize too much, 6.7 improve from 10 to 20% the speed of my network (all MikroTik hardware except web server (2003 server), log server (2003 server), and MikroTik user-manager on x86 machine.
No value? Tell that to the people who upgrade to the latest version and have hours and hours of work ahead of them to get their hardware working again. I know it is a problem and have repeated it multiple times. I indicated that this was done on 6.12 and I was unsure if it would occur on other version of 6, but I suspect it would (and still suspect it will). Ignore at your own peril.
The thing that angers me the most is that it is NOT an optional upgrade but required for the new hardware. I have 2 completely useless paper weights until this problem is fixed. We are 12 version into 6 and a bug that can wipe out your hardware still exists? Scary. Beta, optional upgrades are one thing. Required, “stable”, 12th generation software is another.
Have you contacted support? There are not many people who still have any issues in v6.x latest releases. Most of them are posting on this forum. The issues you are having could be related to specific configuration or network environment.
I did and sent them my backup file and the backup of the user manager on Monday. Also, they should be able to recreate the problem as I did (several times). I have not heard back which is a bit concerning.
With version 6.12 it should be about time to get some stability in RoS 6 don’t you think? Sadly 4 pages at the moment on a version 6.12 release thread tell a different story so I must again disaggree with you. It’s one story when you battle a home router with RoS 6 and completelly another when you battle with 400+ routers. I’m asked to answer again and again why we have such unstable network (OSPF in the past, VLANs, don’t get me started on 3g/lte stability, CCR, CSR?!!?) to our management. Don’t get me started on wireless links under RoS6.
Stay with 5.26 until further notice (maybe RoS 6.75?) and stay away from Cloud core top of the art switches and routers and also RB2011 series. What angers me the most is when especially you Normis act like there is nothing wrong at all and act totally amazed by the comunities reports of numerous problems.
RoS has been going down hill since RoS5 a lot regarding my/our needs. I admit I lost my patience.