MikroTik RB4011 Ethernet 10-Port Gigabit Router (RB4011iGS+RM)

Its a good router with the affordable price and its more powerful than the any other router

This gets the job done admirably. This is a fast, configurable router that is perfect for home gigabit internet use. The configurability comes at the price of it being complex. The out of the box config needed some tweaking to make it do what I needed to but it wasnt stupidly hard to figure out. Its definitely not for people who dont know how or want to learn how routing works. This isnt a consumer level router. Definitely worth every penny of the asking price.

Bien configurados son Unos equipos excelentes

It does all you need and more, if you know how to set it up. Because it throws every option you could ever want at you, it can be overly difficult if you want to do something simple like port forwarding, which has over 50 variables that you can set on the firewall page. If routerOS was upgraded with a few easy mode options for common tasks this router would be much more recommendable. Things like auto updating dynamic dns services, easier monthly usage stats, a toggle for enabling external NAT to work when accessed internally.

Instantly sped up my network by eliminating bottlenecks.

25 May 2020: I recently increased my Internet speed to 500mbps and I wanted to actually use that speed, so I purchased a gigabit TP-Link Safestream Multi WAN VPN Router. Unfortunately, it would only pass 78mbps. I chatted with support we tried all their ideas to no avail. Of course, they blame my cables or switches or computers or whatever. They wanted me to perform a complex test of installing special software on two computers and hooking them exclusively to the router. Too much work. I returned it and purchased the MikroTik RB4011 Ethernet 10-Port Gigabit Router (RB4011iGS+RM) and it worked perfectly right out of the box (proving there is nothing wrong with my stuff as I expected). The MikroTik hardware screams quality, with a gadget to keep it from coming unplugged, and a heavy-duty heat sink, which Ive never seen before on a router. It is infinitely configurable with the most complex GUI Ive ever seen, but as I said, it works perfectly without changing anything at all! I highly recommend it.

If you know Mikrotik, youll love the power of this device for the money - youd have to pay double or more for a Cloud Core class or 1100ah class to get the same grunt of this device. Nice to see SFP+ for a 10 gig link as well. Why would you need this? If you want to custom program complex firewall rules, most routers slow way doing doing complex things where this unit will blaze forward with low latency. For example, I have all my IoT devices on a a couple different and segmented VLANd SSD networks. Then, I have THOSE devices operating on a nailed-up VPN that presents their traffic as if they exist in another city for complete isolation. This router does all of that without any noticeable impact to CPU. These devices have a separate DHCP server on this router with their own IP subnet. Another scenario - I have a foreign country block list that simply black lists any incoming traffic from bad-actor nations - to just cut down on any attack surfaces. Heres another one - I use port-knocking to open up certain ports so I can access things like RDP using a port-knocking app on my phone. Heres another one - this router (a Mikrotik feature) has built in DDNS - which I use to connect to another similar unit at my folks house to create a site-to-site IPSEC secure tunnel so I can reach their local LAN to help out with network administration. No problem for this router - the encryption is done by a dedicated chip that does not affect CPU load. Heres another one - can organize your ports anyway you want - can group any combination of ports into separate Switch groups for hardware line-speed switching or use the CPU to create Bridges that can then do packet inpsection to look for keywords or patterns. Heres another one, this device not only has a DNS server that can cache DNS requests for more speed, but you can add static entries to redirect traffic to IP addresses of your choosing - sort of like a hosts file but for your entire network. If you dont know Mikrotik, there are plenty of tutorials out there (search for Greg Sowell Mikrotik to get started). Features you come to love are the rich built in tools that can capture traffic, can do in-gui sniffing to see where traffic is flowing (called Torch), IP-scanning, ARP analysis, bandwidth testing, and my favorite - this device can operate on Layer-2 using a Layer-2 telnet protocol, which means that even if IP addressing is not configured, you can still get to these devices to configure them. For super power users, can do BGP, OSPF, full SNMP and more.

Its so easy to pay 3x, 4x, or even more for other routers that dont have a fraction of the features of this one. It is pretty complicated and definitely NOT for the faint of heart, but you can make this thing do just about anything you can imagine, and there are a ton of videos and tutorials online to help you. On top of the features, it is F-A-S-T...I have seen sustained network bandwidth of 980+ Mbps!

I bought this to replace an RB2011UiASrm because I couldnt push anywhere near the bandwidth I had available on the WAN through the 2011 using srcnat. The 4011 is an awesome next gen router. Im easily getting 600Mbs/s NAT traffic through the WAN, even with about 30 firewall rules in place and CPU is till >10%. Nothing but good things to say about it EXCEPT: It does run a little warm. Not a big deal, but leave some air space around it, it needs it. and the bracket is a POS! I dont know why they cheaped out on the rack mounting bracket, but its complete junk and held in place by 2 tiny little screws (2 total, one on each side). Other than the bracket, this thing is a real jewel.

While this is a great 10 port router with tons of processing power. Firmware updates have caused Problems with the SFP+ port. Some users of the wireless version report that 5G radio shuts off entirely. So if you dont need/use either of those features.... its an EXTREMELY powerful router. But remember... its still RouterOS on a Mikrotik... so to really take advantage of it... you need specialized knowledge.