I just purchased a level 4 license 1-2 weeks ago so I could play with Mikrotik and get a feel for it. Its been working great and so I am using at my house for a firewall, Insead of the cheap store bought one.
Well Murphys law prevails and after 2 weeks the old 40 GB HDD dies on me and now I have wasted $50 dollars. Or is there a way to reinstall and then reliscence the new 80 GB drive I put in the PC I am using now for the firewall?
Please help, not even 2 weeks and now I may have to spend over $50 bucks again… /cry
“License transfer to another harddrive costs 10$. Contact support to arrange this.”
And:
“If you have paid for the license, you have to write to support[at]mikrotik.com and describe the situation. We may request you to send the broken harddrive to us prior to issuing a replacement key.”
Yah I agree MT is well worth it but I just dont have the cash right now. I dont have lots of money to throw around and Im trying to watch what I spend. 50 dollars here and 20 dollars here and next thing you know your way in over your head in debt.
I know that sounds bad but I dont get paid really well as a tech so… Well that about sums it up.
well I only bought the license for my MT about 1-2 weeks ago have barely used it and then the old 40 GB drive I was using is dying. /sigh
I knew I should have put a new drive in the system but I just grabbed whatever I had around the house to try out MT.
I booted up my spare Dell PC and it was fine. 1 week later it says IDE 0 not working as anticioated or something. I ran the Maxtor Diagnostics on it and it gave me a failing code. Great now I need a new drive and I have to pay for the license again, or at least $10 to put it on another HDD. They say it all happens in threes. Even if you guys dont give me a key I am willing to spend the $10 to move it to a new drive.
I am really impressed with the power of the MT firewall and want to start using it at work, but I would like to use it longer in my house before I go full bore and start recommending to my boss that we start using it for all our clients.
Thanks for all the support. At least you guys take the time to answer questions and support the ppl that buy the MT product.
Well the gentlemen at MT decided to help me and were more then generous. I am happy to say that I have MT working again in my house protecting my familys internet. Thanks MT youguys are awesome.
I look forward to having lots of MT firewalls in all of my customers places.
