Newsletter #116 | January 2024

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  • new outdoor AX devices
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I was looking forward to see OmniTIK 5 PoE AX, LHG XL 52 ax and wAP ax.
Apparently, non yet (if at all).

EDIT:
Also, Chateau 5G R16 - 16MB storage ? Seriously ? In 2024. ?

OK, that surprises me as well.

https://mikrotik.com/product/chateau5gr16

Upgrade of the old IPQ-4019 platform? 256MB RAM and 16MB flash selling for that price-point? I want to stay polite.

Chateau 5G R16 can host the HomeAssistant app, which allows monitoring your CCTV cameras, temperature sensors, and other devices to create the smart home ecosystem of your dreams!

Oh well. From experience of Chateau LTE12 there are ~186MB free RAM in normal operation. It goes down to ~130MB when using wifi-qcom-ac.
So, marketing bla tells us: “easy, install HomeAssistant container!”.

I am running HomeAssistant dockerized on a RasPi 3 with 1GB of RAM. It is said in the official docs, a Raspi 3 Model A with 512MB RAM is not enough to run Home Assistant.

But now Mikrotik tells us: go ahead and run HomeAssistant on a 256MB RAM device. Easy going.

I am really fightened.

This is shame and makes me cry… How much could 128MB cost?

Probably best idea is to buy Chateau 5G ax instead…

Thank you, Normis

What a coincidence, we were discussing this only a few days ago, having a good quality leveling power supply for automotive is a good thing::
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/lte-sensitivity/172989/7
didn’t know it existed from Mikrotik:
https://mikrotik.com/product/apa_1

Devices like https://mikrotik.com/product/chateau_lte12 should be put EOL. https://mikrotik.com/product/chateaulte18_ax is only 50EUR more expensive, but you get wifi6 and future proof hardware.

With all those outdoor solutions it becomes more and more sad that the new wireless driver does not support dynamic VLAN assignment via RADIUS…

WiFi6 Vending Machines hahahahahaha Qaulity

Well I’m buying it as soon is available…

Serves you coffee and serves wifi to your kids or younger co-workers. Everybody happy.

And it is RouterOS v7 only… Maybe it is a good thing, this will insure that MikroTik commits extra effort to make new versions of RouterOS v7 fit on 16MB unlike recent Betas… But I am not sure if it wouldn’t be cheaper and better in the long run to just put more NAND capacity instead…

Great another wasted 2 months to not see new CRS3xx/CRS5xx with mGig ports, 10G and 25 Gbps (CRS326 and CRS328 replacement?)

mANTBox ax 15s? Is not the correct name “mANTBox 52 ax 15s”?

Any plans for the mANTBox ax 1**9**s or for sell directly the L22UGS-5HaxD(2HaxD)
or should I buy the mANTBox ax 15s just for the internal RouterBOARD and replace the internal radios on the old mANTBox ac 19s? (no matter the 2,4GHz)

Is any (not “buld-your-own”) CPE planned to be released in ax?
SXT(sq) Lite5 ax??? DISC Lite5 ax??? DynaDish 5 ax??? Ax AP and no CPE? L11UG-5HaxD just for “Build your own”???
mANTBox ax for WISP without any CPE (except “Build your own”) is completely useless…

And it is easy to configure:

/vm/coffee/addition/sugar
add spoon=1 comment=1 spoon
/vm/coffee/addition/other/milk
add do-not-serve-black=yes ml=10 soy-milk=no name=with_milk
add do-not-serve-black=no ml=0 soy-milk=no name=black comment="defconf"
/vm/other/nonbeverages
add liquid=no bar=yes
...

And don’t forget there will be special package to install in case it’s installed in vending machine

Again no 2.5 / 10 Gbit/s switch in RB5009 design.

I love the way the Guy is just sat there casually twisting Wires together for His next Enterprise… Hilarious.

You lose coffeine-acceleration when using /vm/coffe directly. To get the proper coffeine into your drink, you need to configure it like that:

/vm/container
add type=coffee name=base-coffee
/vm/container/configuration
add coffeine=yes name=recipe1 grind-size=10 grind-time=8s shot-time=25 brew-ratio=2.1
/vm/coffee
add container=base-coffee configuration=recipe1 name=espresso

Now I understand what market MikroTik products from v7 are aimed at…