das right
You could buy complete solutions with mikrotik all the time but not from mikrotik.
We use StellaDoradus Compartments with RB inside as Sector. Our Distributors assembles
this so we get a complete Mikrotik Sector out of the box.
We like Omnitik UPA very much. This is enough for small towers and when additional sectors needed we can feed this with a small cable from Omnitik.
Can you say me examples?
pls read all posts.
At 5km ull be fine - but there is problem, Malta is in EU in EU power output for 24Ghz is 20db thats bit low
My link operate on 10km with power output of 34db - and I get full speed
Only on heavy rain link get disconnect - only in summer, this year we were low on snow but snow does not effect link performance, also fog does not decrease performance
Hi Lakis,
Thank you for your input.
Rgds,
Mark.
Yes. In ETSI it is nearly unusable. Only very short hops can be done in 24GHz.
reliability. I have not had one single showstopper with ubnt yet, including their beta releases.
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I’ve been using Mikrotik for several years without any problems. Longest link is 6km. Very stable in rain, snow and fog. Using it also indoor and like the WDS and virtual AP functions.
Also using UBNT in a few installations (Nano Station and Pico station). Also works really well. Only things I’m missing are virtual APs and also that only WEP encryption is available when running WDS.
I totally agree with Omberli .
Virtual access point is missing.
Pity
There is no way to say witch one is better? Each of them are making some unique products.
I love Router OS flexibility! The prices for MT SXT-lite are incredible low now.
UBNT has better desigh for mid range antennas, I can’t wait for integrated parabolic antennas from mikrotik like nanobridge
UBNT is more stable in noisy enviroment, where mikrotik devices are reconnecting constantly,
Also in noisy enviroment ubnt has better performace. I am quite sure the reason is good antenna design, as parabolic antenna is not picking up interference from the back. of course you can use parabolic antenna with mikrotik, but again cost.
UBNT has airfiber, witch is amazing, until now I have setup 4 links for my client, all of them are in range 4-6km, full speed on all of them. I tried 9.8km, but Ireland is too rainy for that distance, longes one 6k, never dropped connection, once with realy heavy rain latency increased to 200ms for about 2min.
In the country side where is less interference, my client is using Airmax sector antennas paired with RB912, and SXT-HP for customers, allowing distance around 15km from sector with reasonable performance. In the more crowded towns, all gear is changed to UBNT, because of unstability of mikrotik.
Mikrotik have CCR routers, they are performing great, there was DDoS attack targeted to my customers network, CCR12G CPU where running at 80%, but did not crashed.
Dissapintment is New CCR SFP+, we put one in production around month ago, it crashed twice since then. to avoid unexpected downtime for 2500 customers, CCR is connected to GSM resetter, in case if it will crash, it can be rebooted by SMS
Mikrotik has large community and WIKI is stuffed with useful examples how to achieve complex tasks
UBNT are releasing their EdgemaxPro series, witch will probably will kick ass of MT by $ per packet per second.
UBNT has Unifi series, seting up WIFI network could not be easier, range and performance is superior. + unifi cloud controller comes for free, so easy setup, also can grant mangement access to end customer for manging network, I can’t imagine to explain over the phone to averago Joe how to change wifi password for network with 60 Mikrotik AP’s.
There is no winner, none of them are better or worse, there is different tasks and problems, and different solutions for them.
Choose product according your needs, not by brand!
Hello everyone,
because the Ubiquiti config interface is more user friendly ?
This is owed to the circumstance that MikroTik was starting assemble their
devices mostly more for professional usage and not for the entire end user
or plain end usage. And only step by step they are acting to the newer field
of home and SOHO usage with an webinterface.
But can you tell me please what is on the Ubituiti config interface (like Vyatta)
more easy?
I would like to know what UBNT offers that Mikrotik cannot?
The word cannot is false here, because they can do for sure, but the question
should more called what is MikroTik not offering, but UBNT does in my eyes.
AirFiber
mFi
Controller Software
But UBNT offers not such software as “The DUDE” and and the entire Router System
from them is not offering so much features and options or the ability to stick in different
WiFi Cards!
I mean virtual accesspoint for example hotspots
But they have Multi SSID and VLAN support and this works like the option you
call it virtual WLAN AP if I am informed right.
Choose product according your needs, not by brand!
Likes me, we are setting up the most installments with MikroTik devices
but if there is a special need or another behavior we are also using UBNT equipment.
Mostly based on those behaviors like meshed wireless lan´s and Mikrotik´s hwmp
that is incompatible to the “normal” hwm on the other side, there fore we are using
then UBNT equipment only.
And in my eyes on the entire MikroTik side it is not only one company with one product
I personally see it much more different as the most peoples, there is at one point the
hardware so called RouterBoards and on the other point is the system software co called
RouterOS and this is what UBNT not owns and offers.
I can setting up my custom router, HotSpot, traffic shaper by using x86 hardware with
support from HotLava network adapters and many other hardware and this option is also
not given by UBNT, so in my eyes MikroTik is offering me more options as UBNT is doing, but
if you can life with the shorten options and functions UBNT is serving very stable hardware
to his customers, not with so many functions, but very stable.
UBNT was award winning three time a price for the best WISP outfitter world wide
so I was much often thinking why damed the MikroTik is not getting out something
as a device or what ever and they also are winning at one time this price.
Because who is supporting OpenSource on their hardware likes OpenWRT? Who?
On the RB450G, RB435G and 493G you are able to set up OpenWRT, no one I know
is allowing OpenSource peoples to use their hardware!!! But MikroTik does!
They also supports OpenWRT in Metarouter and also likes Asterisk too, who is
allowing this? No one else is doing! And with the new CCR series, if MikroTik is
setting it up 100% ready until July 2014 to use all hardware given options and
functions is one of the fastest router and also hotspot capable device for this
price, as I see it please correct me if I am wrong now.
I’ve found that MT clients may drop more often than UBNT clients, but often the customer may be on the Internet and never even notice it.
On the UBNT forum the general consensus is anything worse than -73dB is a lost cause, and using the Nanobridge M2 they may be correct. Using an SXT or a custom build based on a 711 or 911 board, I’ve got links that fluctuate into the mid -80s and never drop. My UBNT hardware doesn’t seem to handle that well.
I use SXT for short shots, NB M2 for slightly longer, 711 or 911 + Rootenna where the M2 can’t hack it and a 24dBi grid + Groove beyond that.
They each have their place.
As we had bad experience with UBNT at the time we tested it we did not use it. May be we did the same with MT if the wrong firmware came along while testing. We decided to stay with MT as it is a complete system for routing and wireless. It is easier to manage using one platform.
I guess on the wireless side they are quite comparable. Both cant do GPS-Sync (while UBNT claims to) and both do no ATPC. NV2 and airmax are quite the same.
While we are happy with MT most time we miss some progress for a long time so we are not convinced we would not change system when a competitor comes along with a better package.
Our main problems are the never ending beta versions of ROS claimed as production and the slow progress with wireless features. It took a feeled century until nv2 got stable. Still we see strange effects with slow speeds we cant explain. You’re never sure if its a config problem, interference, defective hardware or a malfunction of ROS which might be repaired with the next version.
We’re looking into ePMP now if it holds up with the wireless promises so we might change the
wireless part to another system as MT is not willing to make some homework for a long time now.
I dont like UBNT due to the big difference between marketing and reality. They promise stuff they never get running. You cant give a cent on their words.
What CPE’s are you using and have they also to be swapped out for ePMP?
beyond -73dB a lost cause
They are not 802.11 compatible so both ap and cpe have to be replaced.
This morning ePmP re-seller mentioned they are working on a solution that will not mean replacing MT CPE’s, If this can be done it opens new possibilities 
MT offer ton of options, Ubnt or Cambium does not, GPS sync. does not really work as in commercial because I have it and I dont see big difference
Cambium ePMP CPE price is about 100$ they are ok but I cant see what is so promising that can change wireless
UBNT sync does not work. It is reported capacity is half with gps on. This is a known problem.
ePMP suffers, too? You tried ABAB scheme? You’ve mixed synced/non synced on a tower?