jandafields=> Do you remember several years ago when their products and software were simply STABLE? The v2 mikrotik software was awesome! Back then, there was lots of talk of "this will kill cisco, etc". Now, it seems that there is something major wrong in every single release, that has to be fixed in the next release... which then introduces yet another problem.
I've got some very old Mikrotik v2 stuff running 24/7 that hasn't been touched in years... and still going strong... uptime in the hundreds (or thousands) of days.
Now days, with their new software and hardware, there is always something wrong. The RB2011ahx2 limited storage, the RB1100 crashing, the RB751 wireless performance, the RB951 wireless disappearing, OVPN problems, SSTP stability issues......
-------------------- WirelessRudy=> Can't agree more on that!
What struck me lately in the last upgrades is that nowadays it seems any update is immediately called "stable" where within weeks the successor upgrade is there because it was not so stable after all....
In the v3.x and v4.x families the stable versions where always some versions behind the latest upgrades.... (not that that makes a lot of sense, being "stable" and been succeeded by upgrades is sometimes a bit of a contradiction...)
I think new upgrades should only be called "stable" if they run stable on the majority of hardware-software configurations for at least some weeks without any serious issues being mentioned by an relevant group of regular forum users (these can be considered as 'alfa'(?), ''beta'(?), no better, "charlie" testers
I fully agree with you that an mayor router as the rb1100, which will be used by many for the network traffic management, in lots of cases in transparent mode, is now not able to run a software version that is published on the download page as "stable". Ridiculous!
5.16, 5,17 and now 5.18 are succeeded in a fast schedule which in my opinion shows not a lot of serious testing is done before release.
I can't yet pass to 5.17 or higher because I have several wireless units starting to disconnect with these version and MT, yet again, don't seem to be able to put their finger on what is happening here but instead just bring new version out without solving the problems existing in older ones...