RB1100still relevant for purchase or go CCR?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi,

I’d like to ask if MIKROTIK RB1100AHx2 is still a device worth buy or it will be slowly phased out and replaced by CCR.
I am considering RB1100AHx2 or CCR1009 - the sfp is nice to have as I have an optical circuit from may ISP and my switch does have a sfp port as well but having none is something I can live with…
Both devices are an overkill for me as its for my house (I just need few vpn server and client connections, hence the hw encryption is a must, scripting, PBR, some VLANs and lots of ports) but I like these devices and they will be a nice upgrade from my old RB4xx and a nice comeback from Ubiquity due to enough performance and lots of space for trying and learning new stuff and techniques…
Should I go for the CCR which seems to be the future (and there is a good chance that this device will be strong keep do its job for years) or stick with the RB1100 to save 150usd?

Thanks!

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Have you looked at the rb850? Inexpensive, fast, hardware AES. It doesn’t have the SFP but it sounds like that isn’t a must.

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Yes I have seen this one but for me there isn’t enough ethernet ports and this time I’d rather go with some of the rack mounted and more powerful ones :slight_smile:

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RB3011

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Yup - that one looks pretty nice but does have no hw encryption so the ipsec will be slow as hell. After some research I found that it does have no hw encryption “yet” and it “should” come in v7 but tbh its the first arm based device and hence I am not sure what to expect and how long it will take to make it stable. After years I count only on features that are there at the time of purchase.. :slight_smile:
If its one year after today when I am choosing the router for next few years, 3011 would be the weapon of choice but currently I am really not sure about this one (the question is how reasonable my concerns are)…

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Or maybe…Even without the hw encryption, do we have any benchmarks for ovpn using aes256 and for the ipsec?

Thanks