Eirikr70 MikroTik router. What do the specialists say?
Well, I am a fool, but I will attempt to string together a few words for this.
I like it for 2 reasons:
- Great router for the most uncouth relatives to unplug & plug-in as an internet fix. Or if you don't have IPMI/console to opnsense. (pfsense/opnsense on an SSD might have data corruption)
- Longer duration and dedicated security updates compared to consumer routers--so many for sale are 3-5 years old and almost EOL.
For me, mikrotik was not intuitive, luckily there are guides and docs. For example, adding a wireguard client takes a visit to a few menus and then you have more menus to route traffic through it. After that, fast track or fast path(?) kept traffic out of wireguard.
The GUI interface sometimes doesn't work. Clicking update used to work but now it doesn't so i open CLI.
I can send you the scripts I have to automatically check for updates and to not update to a new major version. After a RouterOS update, it reboots, and then you should update the bootloader.
The mikrotik you have probably has the same hardware-offloading/ASICs as an ATX motherboard, so no advantages there, albeit this isn't F1 racing.