I am not "certified" or anything officially. But I am from a computer science background, with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications (doing my master's now).
I am confident to work MikroTik's RouterOS for routing/policy based routing, load balancing, firewalling etc to ensure reliable 24/7 connectivity.
So basically, I have some potential clients whose requirements are simple:
- Single LAN subnet (No VLAN, single DHCP server, maybe two at the most on the router itself)
- Likely they'd want an unmanaged switch
- High-Bandwidth throughput for WAN (depends on their ISP[s] of choice)
- 1G LAN is sufficient
- Reliable Wi-Fi Mesh (consumer grade is what they prefer)
- As cheap as possible
- This is where the issue lies
MikroTik's ultra-cheap routers comes with only 16 MB of flash and a lot of users on their forums have had issues with that. I have been thinking of sticking an RB450Gx4 to all of the clients as it has ample flash and storage + the arm CPU is as good as it gets with long-term software support.
The switch/Wi-Fi mesh/APs can be compromised in regards to their "We want cheap" requirements, but I feel I shouldn't compromise on a decent capable router.
What do you guys think?
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