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I wish mikrotik had a stronger presence in North America. I find it difficult to find a dealer that actually stocks inventory. Evertything is 4-6 weeks, meaning it is probably being ordered from overseas, which is not a desirable time frame for most of my customers.
Does anyone know if there is anyone warehousing/inventoring these routers in North America?
Welcome to Mikrotik and take the good advice from Normis. He gave you a link to the distributor list.
I can’t speak for Canada but most of the US distributors stock large volumes of Mikrotik product. We show our inventory levels on our web site. That is available stock in our US warehouse, not what we have coming in the future.
there is now a distributor in downtown Vancouver
i bought a 751u &751G from them
much better to buy from them if u live in Alberta Saskatchewan or Manitoba
http://www.roc-noc.com is probably the best USA dealer. They are centrally located in the country, and do quick priority shipping. I’ve had several orders with them, and never had any problems at all.
Baltic and ISP Supplies don’t have USPS shipping options… so even if you order 1 item like a RB751, you are paying $15 shipping. If you order a lot, it may be fine, but for small orders, you save a lot if you can order from somewhere that does USPS shipping.
Very good point. Also, roc-noc is sometimes $5 $10 and sometimes $20 more than Baltic. I guess the best suggestion is to just shop around and find the best price.
I have nothing against roc-noc either and I’ve met Tom and he seems like a hell of a nice guy but it pisses me off when a company won’t answer a simple email.
We normally order from Xagyl (been happy, but does not always have what i need), but if they don’t have it I get it from roc-noc (never have had a problem with them) and just a bummer having to pay the duty.