Hi,
I’m building my home network from scratch after my ddwrt router died.
I have a 1000Mb fiber connection which currently is working at 60% speed since my current router is just not good enough.
I was think about RB5009UPr+S+IN which is a bit expensive and also I heard a lot of SFP flapping issues (which maybe was resolved?). WDYT?
I have about 6-8 devices connected at any time, I stream a lot (Airplay or HD movies), need stable connection since I also work from home from time to time.
I’m going to add smart home devices and security system in the upcoming year so I need to support this growth.
I do want to be as secure as I can, meaning IPsec if possible, VLAN, Ad Blocking if possible, no cloud account but rather local compute only. wireguard is a very good plus since I wish to access cameras from remote. I want the router to actually be able for more than 1000Mb since in the future I plan to use faster connection.
Yes I’m an engineer and capable of configuring any router, but I would like to not work for the router.
RB5009 is reported as being a very good device, SFP issues, generally speaking, depend on the SFP, in the sense that Mikrotik is picky with SFP’s, so it may not work properly with any SFP, but AFAIK if you procure one known to be working, it works just fine.
As I said, most of the stuff I’ll need in the future. SFP for sure is needed since I have an optic fiber from the ISP. I do want to have the option for faster connection.
Regarding pppoe, it’s not a must, but would be a nice addition for when I add security cameras.
What other models would you recommend? I’m open to new ideas
Any other cheaper product will be insufficient or border line with 1 Gb fiber, the RB4011 would do, but it costs the same while with older technology/porcessor/etc., if you can find an used one, it could be an alternative, though.
Personally I would buy the non-PoE version and use a PoE switch, depending on the number of cameras you could get away with a RB260GSP (you can buy two of them for the difference in the cost of the RB5009 PoE Model) or with any cheap (new or used) switch, even an older 100 Mbit PoE switch will do for cameras.
Not sure what I see here. Can you explain?
You will find a list of SFP and SFP+ models that have been tested on Mikrotik and work. It is not exhaustive, but usually once you have chosen a SFP or SFP+ model you can search on the forums to see if issues of compatibility (or success stories) have been reported for that model.
Because it’s for multi mode fiber and FTTH (or any MAN) uses single mode fiber.
And there are a few technologies for WAN fiber:
FTTH using two fiber cores (one per direction), most often used wavelength is 1310 nm …
BiDi FTTH, where single fiber core carries traffic in both directions … by using different wavelenghts. And there are a few favourite wavelength combinations (e.g. 1310/1550 nm) … and modules on both ends of fiber have to be complementary (i.e. one 1310/1550 and the other 1550/1310).
GPON which is a whole more complicated things due to fiber being shared medium for multiple users. Due to that, GPON operators control ONT so that user can not spy on neighbours.
And all of the above can run either over “dark fiber” or over some variant of WDM (CWDM, rarely DWDM).
So when selecting module for WAN, one has to know what the other end (ISP, GPON operator) is doing so that devices can talk to each other.
, maybe you mean PoE 
(pppoe is another thing)..