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AnyTimeSoIf you're not gonna be leaving ports open or remoting in very often, then mikrotik's pretty good. My ax3's happily running pihole unbound container on the router.
No, I haven't touched it in like half a year, and back then I mostly used a mix of winbox/CLI for containers and a VLAN. The router did force me to learn a bit more about networking and not give conflicting commands that will cause silent fails, but after that its been smooth running. I'm using the mikrotik's back to home feature instead of tailscale. AFAIK its just a similar wireguars tunnel, with additional CGNAT support by connecting through mikrotik servers if needed. Does a Tailscale container have any advantage over this feature?
Apprehensive_Win7049Same. Mikrotik punches way above its weight. Surprised they aren't more popular.
Arcai_HadahI agree with mikrotik, take a look at their hAP ax3 if you want an all in one device.
bayasdevWait for WiFi 7, if you need containers you need a USB stick so go for the ax3 in that case (the new ax s wouldn’t work as it’s 32 bits and most images are now built only for 64 bits). PD: I have the ax3 and works great running Adguard Home as a container.
CreshalMikrotik didn't really offer anything I'd have considered a fully featured home router for a while (until the ax³ finally started shipping in volume), so if you didn't want to get something either totally overkill or totally anaemic you were outta luck with mikrotik.
DolapevichI'd say a more appropiate comparison is MacOS to Linux. With mikrotik you have mostly all of Linux netfilter capabilities, a tool that can do whatever you want as long as you know what and how it is done. Whereas ( the few ) Uniquities I've seen are more like a canned product. But to be fair the last time I came across a Ubiquity Edgerouter was ... 10 years ago.
Yeah, I was also thinking about that. Maybe US, which I assume most of the people here are from there, is not its target market. I learnt about it some 20 years ago, in the 802.11g days, in a book called: ["Building wireless community networks"](https://archive.org/details/buildingwireless00flic), so it kinda points in the other direction, probably financially broken places and people like me, at Argentina. I was so incredibly all the things you could do with routerboard hardware and it even ran/runs in i386.
Drunk_Panda_456MikroTik HAP ac3 or ax3. Either one is good. It just depends on your budget. These are reliable routers.
MikroTik HAP ac3 or ax3. Either one is good. It just depends on your budget. These are reliable routers.
[MikroTik hAP ax³](https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1872028-REG/mikrotik_c53uig_5hpaxd2hpaxd_us_hap_ax3_2_4_5ghz_wifi.html) It’s what I recommend to everyone. It’s a solid device that has great reliability.
Nope! It’s running full RouterOS.
FIN_Mastermind749I can recommend mikrotik routers. I had some cheap devices from them lasting for more than 10 years (bought them in university to have something to put theory in practice). if you are limited to a single device, I can recommend the hap ax 3, using it as my daily driver for more some time. I would recommend to split router and access point. On mikrotik.com, you will find performance measurements for each mikrotik router. Mikrotik has a had history with WiFi, their pre WiFi 6 accesspoints are not that stable. Since WiFi 6 (the models with ax in its name), for me the WiFi reliability is good (YMMV). You may also try to reuse your tplink router as accesspoints, it might reduce the load on it
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