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Bought this to learn the deeper levels of networking. RouterOS makes this a much more configurable router and includes some great analysis tools too. Don't buy this if you can't be bothered to study. Yes, it works very well out of the box but you'd be missing its real value. This has fantastic pro level software at a price I can afford. I bought the book "RouterOS by example" to unleash it.

You're not buying hardware with MikroTik, you're buying their software ... Level 4 license with this router. RouterOS is a commercial grade software solution. I setup my router as a WiFi station on 5GHz and disabled 2.4GHz with static IPs for 4 PCs on ethernet and wireless router with two phones. This was definitely an upgrade-- download speed has tripled. MikroTik is not for those that never want to learn about iptables and NAT. Or those who don't use a command line on a daily basis. If you're willing to learn Quickset can setup a number of simple configurations from which to start learning. However, there are no safe guards, you can easily screw up. When you do screw up, you do a hard reset and start over from scratch. To those that live on the command line, I highly recommend Microtik and RouterOS. The rest of you, RTFM.

Bought this to replace a 4 year old Mikrotik hAP ac that had been acting up. I'm very pleased. It does run hot, been stable at 41 C, but haven't had any issues with performance, and doesn't seem to be varying any. The room I have it in isn't particularly warm, so I think it just runs hot. It is acting as my primary home office/household router and the speed and stability have been much better than the previous hAP I had been using. Wireless range is about the same, but that is, in my opinion, primarily client limited. Originally I got a unit where the first 5 ethernet ports were dead, but the replacement unit has worked fine since I got it and set it up. Set up is the same as any other Mikrotik product. There have been some complaints on the forums about wireless stability, but I have WMM enabled and haven't had any issues, and significantly better than my previous router was.

This router is not for the faint of heart. It's not a 'plug-and-play' out-of-the-box type of device. You'll need to go to MikroTik's website, use their wiki pages, and get familiar with RouterOS to set this thing up properly. If you're an IT professional and understand networking, you won't have any issues setting this up. It's a fully managed, 10-port switch with PoE on port #10. It has an SFP slot is you want to add a module for an extra gigabit RJ45 connection or a fiber link. The wireless operates on 2.4G and / or 5G bands with full customization of the SSIDs and security. It supports VPN, firewall rules, routing tables, VLAN tagging, and more. Search up their website for full specifications. Running a speed test, it's hitting 1 to 2% CPU utilization and consistently hits 700 to 800 Mbps with my provider. That's the max I've been able to get from any routers I've tested so far.

This is the third MikroTik product I've bought. Like all of them, it is highly configurable and very powerful. RouterOS can get the job done, but you need to spend the time learning its interface. Many of the config options are under non-obvious menus. That being said, I have mine running a fully separated guest network with WiFi APs for both 2.4 and 5 and even a gigabit port on a network isolated from everything else. The two main issues I have (making it 4 star instead of 5) are as follows. First, the 5GHz network is very sensitive to "detecting radar". I am unable to run the router with 160MHz channels. 5GHz for me only works if I set the channel size to 80MHz and set the frequency between 5180-5240. Anything else and the router reports that it is detecting radar and shuts down the 5GHz AP. This is a bit limiting and I don't remember this being an issue on other routers. The second issue is the device runs noticeably warm to the touch. While the system health indications don't seem to show a problem, I am worried about the temperature overall.

Lan is great. Handles lan perfectly. Wi-Fi couldn't be slower. Have no idea why. Maybe defective maybe not. I'm waiting to here back from microtik to find out what's up, but this device out of the box does not do 1gb wifi. Definitely doesn't do 1.7. terrible wifi. Get the router only option and use a separate WiFi access point.

I'm a network professional of 20 years experience, so I'm very familiar with networking, routers, firewalls etc. This unit is the buggiest unit for Wi-Fi I've ever seen. If It wasn't past the send back date I would happily return it. 5Ghz SSID just "disappears". Literally it just goes away and may or may not return. This is a known issue with this unit and has yet to be resolved. Just google Mikrotik RB4011 5ghz disappears and see for yourself. Do what I didn't do. Look at the user forums for the Wi-Fi for this unit. Then look elsewhere.

Todo perfecto! 100% recomendado!

Mikrotik est fidèle à sa réputation sur ce routeur WIFI j'ai été très (agréablement) supris par son format ultra compact...! je l'ai mis derrière une freebox delta en SFP+, ça dépote. attention tout de même, ce n'est pas un routeur "grand public" il faut quelques connaissances en réseau & informatique, son interface de gestion est assez brute

<b>WARNING!! You MUST update your RouterOS on arrival for 5GHz WiFi to function correctly!!! </b> Up until a recent 2020 update to the RouterOS firmware; this had a serious flaw on the 5Ghz interface which caused an interface crash and complete failure until reboot, often within ~24h of use. This is now fixed, but you must update your RouterOS on arrival... and for security reasons of course. Originally gave this 4 star due to poor WiFi range and performance, but turns out that's limited to the 2.4G channel and manually tuning the 5G channel can give much better performance, so back up to 5 star!! PRO: - Very good price/perofmance for any modern routing tasks - Proper 10G SFP+ to a high power CPU, great for a RoaS and stateful firewalling - RouterOS allows you to make full use of the hardware and optimise it accordingly - Higher quality feel and looks over older versions (visuals are important!!!) CON: - Poorer switch chips with no VLAN hardware offloading :'( - No cool 'extra' feature like the 3011 and 2011 - Poor WiFi was a con but upon further manual tuning its great now! Notes: - The case top is a <i>direct heatsink</i> to the powerful CPU! Expect the case to be too hot to touch all the time - Requires actual knowledge of networking to optimise for your environment - The PSU LED is STUPIDLY bright, you'll need tape over it if it's in an office (seriously) - To make use of WiFi propery, you'll need to manually tune it This is a bit of a strange device since its name hints it's the newer version of the 3011 and thus 2011... but these 4011 routers, wifi or not, seem to be aimed at a different market. It lacks both the LCD and Bleeper. It no longer supports hardware offloading, and doesn't have a USB port anymore... This now seems to be more focused on being a very powerful router <i>without</i> fancy features and no longer cares about being a switch either. <b>Router performance</b> Brilliant. The CPU and overal design and internals make this a powerful router at a good price. RouterOS provides a lot of features available by default which may have otherwise require a higher price point. If you're new to ROS, good luck... but there's plenty of guides online. Make use of both help.mikrotik.com and the MikroTik wiki as right now the documents are being updated and transfered to the Help site, but not everythings there yet (mid 2020). <b>Switch performance</b> It looses a half-star here. The switch chips (2x RTL8367) do not support hardware offloading, thus will not achieve line-speed VLAN filtering. No only that but the pipes from these chips are limited to 2.5Gb/s throughput to CPU. This will not be a problem for RoaS setups (make use of that full 10G SFP!) but if you're using this as an all-in-one router and switch <i>with VLANs</i> you may see slower than expected throughput, as well as an awkward time figuring out VLANs if you haven't done this before on ROS v6+ router with bridges. I'd personally recommend just using seperate bridges per 'network' unless you do need a faster and larger LAN segregation on denser hardware; in that case it's a RoaS setup with a seperate VLAN aware switch(s) below it I'd say. <b>Software</b> RouterOS is brilliant. You can do almost anything on any device from MikroTik regardless of price point, including rather obscure setups usually only seen in big networks. It's like a Sandbox environment, but it will take time to understand if you're new. Use WinBox for setup as its like a IDE for the device. <b>WiFi</b> I wrote this next section with auto mode enabled... but it turns out if you (properly) scan and tune the WiFi adapters you can re-gain a ton of performance and avoid contamination in most scenarios. <b>2.4GHz</b> On 2.4GHz; If you're going to use this as the only WiFi access point in any building with walls, don't bother. Buy some access points. Even in a house it can only breach 2 or so walls before serious degredation (in my tests; from ~71Mb/s WAN to ~0.7Mb/s 2 rooms away). I'm not impressed at all with the performance, BUT you can gain some performance back by tweaking the default wireless adapter setting to avoid noise and overlap faster by manually scanning yourself, it seems to take a while to figure itself out when left on auto settings anyway. <i>5GHz</i>: MUCH better that 2.4 and when manually tuned. I wrote this review having it mostly on auto and has poor results but manually scanning and assigning frequency ranges seems to have improved performance hugely. The degredation is much less severe and in line with what to expect from a quad chain AN device! <b>"TO LONG REVIEW!! DIDN'T READ"</b> This acts like a "SOHO" version of the previous 3011 device, as in it's more 'professional' with less fun features but overall much more powerful. This is probably the perfect cheap-ish RoaS router especially if you want internal firewalling too as it can hapily grace though rules with fasttrack enabled. It almost looses a star because Wireless seems to want manually tuning to get expected performance and because the switch chips don't support hardware VLAN filtering even though it has 10 1G ether ports and looks like it damn should. ::D

Ich bin mit meinem gesamten Netzwerk von Ubiquity auf Mikrotik umgestiegen und dieses Gerät ist der Kern der Netzwerkverwaltung. Design ist natürlich Geschmacksache, aber das matte schwarz gefällt mit persönlich besser als das einfache weiße Plastik bisher. Der Router fühlt sich auch ziemlich wertig an, denn seine Außenhaut ist aus beschichtetem Metall. Die 4 Antennen sind nicht nur zur Zierde, ihre Leistung reicht aus, um meine Wohnung mit besten WiFi zu versorgen - was mich nicht davon abgehalten hat zusätzliche Access Points zu installieren. Die Software bzw die Steuerung via Browser ist für Menschen mit wenig Wissen über Netzwerktechnick leicht bedienbar, da es einen Wizzard gibt der beim Einrichten der gängigsten Verwendungszwecke die Einstellerei sehr vereinfacht. Für fortgeschrittene und professionelle User ist der Router aber auch bestens geeignet. IP-Tables, NATing, packet inspection, VLANs, L7 Rules, Bandbreiten-Splitting für mehrere Netze oder VLANs, alles kein Problem und sowohl über Web/Software als auch über die Console einstellbar. Out ob the Box wird ein Wireguard VPN unterstützt, was bei Ubiquity einfach nicht möglich war - mein Hauptgrund zum Umstieg. Mit dem SFP+ Port ist auch eine Anbindung an ein Glasfaser-Netzwerk möglich, was wahrscheinlich besonders im Business Bereich einen Vorteil darstellt. Meiner Meinung nach, handelt es sich bei dem Gerät um eine der besten Lösungen für prosumer und professionelle Anwender, die nicht zwangsweise zu Cisco oder den anderen bekannten Namen greifen wollen - die mit der Zeit verlernt haben was innovation bedeutet. Es gibt natürlich auch Einschränlungen für den relativ geringen Preis. Der WiFi ax Standard wird von dem Modell nicht unterstützt und dadurch ist es auch nicht Wave2 kompatibel. Die Verschlüsselung ist WPA2 und WPA3 wird nicht unterstützt. Wer diese Features benötigt, sollte sich nach einer Alternative umsehen. Wer das nicht benötigt wird wahrscheinlich sehr zufrieden sein.

I live surrounded by many 2.4 GHz wifi signals, which resulted in pretty poor performance of my wifi, and often it would just stop working. I was hoping that this router will run them over by having much stronger 2.4GHz signal. While it works OK at 2.4 GHz, noise still reduces wifi throughput a lot, although it's working stable. The real pleasant surprise, however, is performance at 5GHz. It's great - the router is at the edge of the house, not at best place at all, yet it covers the entire house with great throughput (e.g. over 10 Mbps, and full 40 Mbps if closer to the router). With 2.4 the best I can get is 5-6 Mbps, and often only 1Mbps depending on location. 5Ghz also seems to have shorter latency. The built quality is something I have never seen in any other router. Really, really good, with heavy metal on top that I suppose works as a passive cooler.