current VQ plan with fixed ip expiring soon.
been with them since the very start and it has been relatively problem free for me as I run my own dns forwarder and only depend on it for pure ip connectivity.
very tempted with MR 10G with static ip addon due to price and also home infra is due for major overhaul as some existing equipment are EOL and no longer has support(firmware) and are more than 10 years or approaching 10 years cycle.
In the last 10 years, i have transited through most of the popular routing vendors except mikrotik
Edgerouter Lite --> Netgate (pfsense) --> Sophos UTM --> Edgerouter 4
Considerations for new setup (either all-in-one router/switch or router + switch)
1) prefer fanless if possible
2) No software based router
3) prefer router to be just router and connect a switch for switching/Vlans (aio also ok if it offers additional benefits)
Based on the above, I am leaning on mikrotik
CCR2004-16G-2S+PC and CRS310-8G+2S+IN
1) CCR only the 2S+ will be used (one to ONT, one to switch) 16G wasted
2) CRS only two S+ ports. One will be used to uplink to CCR so only one free. Prefer more S+ ports.
3) CCR is fanless but CRS has fans so LPPL
Also for the CRS switch:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/disp...wareOffloading-OffloadingFasttrackConnections
Under L3HW Device support section.
"The devices below are based on
Marvell 98DX224S, 98DX226S, or
98DX3236 switch chip models. These devices do not support Fasttrack or NAT connection offloading."
Isn't Fasttrack and NAT connection offloading done on the CCR router?
So am I missing out on any HW offload features/optimisation by choosing the above combo.
I have also considered:
1) CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ - AIO but overkill for my setup
2) Edgerouter XG - concerned about long term support since cavium has been sold to marvel and UBNT has very limited updates/commitment to the Edgerouter product line.
Looking to mikrotik users and gurus for advise.