But you didn’t really address why people are still buying it. As pointed out in the rest of the post you quoted.
coz ownership cost per port is apparently higher?
ipv6 fasttrack is not available in RouterOS, so there are better alternatives, too..
Compact, flat laying case. More Ethernet ports than other models (not counting switches). Wireless not very important, maybe only for IoT. Very cheap compared to other fully featured routers with as many ports.
This is the situation if you need more than 5 ports
you could just keep port count @ 10 ports. Cost per port is simply increased.. Not everyone need gigabit..
and you respond with “pay even more to upgrade more expensive models…”
can this thing (L009) “route” 1 gbps link-rate ipv6 traffic? no. why would I pay same price for gigabit ports if I can not utilize them because your ancient quirky software lacks IPV6 FastTrack and IPV6 RouteCache? Even TPLINK gaming routers are faster than mikrotik nowadays if you dont need advanced protocols like BGP/PPPoE server..?
and why would i buy cloud router for my SOHO setup? if i am not ISP.. think twice.. think future.. Invest once, not every year.. so go for other brands..
Give specific numbers, how much IPv6 are you routing throug the TPLINK gaming router (which costs 3 times more than L009 by the way). Let’s compare then
I use default routing.. You do not need anything else if you are single-homed SOHO.
You can continue your obstinacy about not implementing V6 F.T. I dunno what people @ ros development are doing more important.
With your company’s products and ancient quirky ROS, it is like buy gigabit hardware and route megabits or buy terabit hardware and then you can route gigabits..
I proposed extra package to be able to use IPV4 FASTTRACK with VPN protocols. wrote an example script, but it is resource-intensive..
Contacted MT support for proper implementation (kernel module or userspace application as extra package or bundled with ROS)
nobody cares… and first I got response saying “IMPOSSIBLE”.. well, you just need to take your blinders off, first.
If I were to request some other thing that you are interested to fix/implement; i would get alpha build in a week or so..
How is this even relevant to this topic?
You still did not write any exact test results. This is all just “I want this feature, I don’t know why”
These days, on my home router the traffic volume ratio is about 40/60 for IPv6/IPv4.
At work, it is about 50/50.
whoever wants to do the work, finds the result; Those who don’t want to, find an excuse.
I am paying customer (both cloud and physical), you are the responsible party to test the feature.. I do not have test lab.
In my SOHO setup with HAP AC, I get 68M/100M for IPV6/IPv4, YMMV
I am talking about performance. Your complaint is that it is slow. Still no exact test or comparison with those other routers
You have test lab. share IPV6 test results so we can get to know what we are buying if we buy 5009 series..
we are not interested in bridged performance as we are not buying a switch. but a router.. so IPv6 routing performance is what to look.
You are over-promising.
How is LATVIA’s IPV6 availability even relevant to IPV6 fasttrack implementation if you are routing “the world”?
If you dont have IPv6, buy an IPv6 prefix, AS Number from RIPE LIR and bgp-supported virtual machine in europe. then you can test each and every feature via VPN
frantech offers BGP & VM for 3.5 usd in luxembourg. see also https://snapserv.net/services/ripe/ , https://ifog.ch/en/ip/lir-services
So let me understand something. You are complaining about IPv6 speed, but you don’t actually know how fast RouterOS v7 IPv6 is?
So to sum up. You are complaining that L009 can not push the same amount ipv6 traffic as tplink, yet your ipv6 traffic cap is only 68M, basically you are nowhere near what even hap ac can forward.