First of all i want to introduce my self.
I'm IT engineer for over more then 20 years. I'm not newbie, seen and know a lot of things.
I was buying and setting up a lot of Mikrotik routers for the past few years. Usually customers had a basic needs like port forward, vpn, etc.
These simple configurations are easy to made.
But once you want to make something more interesting Mikrotik is ZERO user friendly. It is pathetic to work with some specific topics.
To be honest with you i was trying to understand and work with this platform. I even tried to pass Mikrotik certifications, but they did not allowed to do that online. You have to fly somewhere. I was waiting for L900. The new model. It's quite nice, it's arrived. And i pissed off. Really. I believe in the human life there are much more to do, then spend hours and hours trying to do more or less basic things. Mikrotik WHY are you so f***ing complicated and so unfriendly? What is the reason to be such a pain in the ass? Things that are easily done on hap ac3 are no more possible to do on L9000. Why? It stinks like microsoft. If you knew how to set up someting in winxp you will not be able to set up the same thing in win10. Just because everything is different.
Why this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZJ-pM89N7o work on ac3, but there is no way to set up on new L900?
I'm in love with linux and i'm in love with mac. I was really pushing my self to love mikrotik for years, but i see that live is too short to spend so much time on this extremely unfriendly platform. Probably i will switch to Cisco, OR please give me any other suggestions. What do you prefer and why?
I'm not a noob. I work with quite interesting and complicated linux platforms. But mikrotik... after more then 20 years working in IT, i feel stupid when trying to set up some quite basic things. I know what i want to do, i know terminology, i know and understand how things work, but in mikrotik it is somehow over the ass. Why so?
Maybe it is my fault? But where to understand this platform with the shortest possible time? I don't want to spend weeks, months and years, trying to set up a 2nd VLAN. Come on. It should be done in couple clicks. But i'm digging this piece of .... third evening. And it is not f*** working.
If i was a newbie in IT, then i should blame my self. But after half live in IT and struggling with quite basic things... .. come one...
I just disappointed.
Talking about Wireless. I'm in love with Ruckus. Very flexible, but extremely easy to understand platform. Try to do the same thing of Mikrotik, good luck. What is done in minutes on Ruckus, it takes evenings to set up on Mikrotik. WHY?
Looks like whole linux is much more understandable then mikrotik. If there is some fast learning tutorial or course, please share with me. I'm not spitting on mikrotik yet, but time is ticking. I believe i will move to the other platform. Cisco? PfSense? Also if you have any suggestions i would be thankful to hear them.
I'm just pissed of this this software. Asked for help from my colleagues, we spend hours together and could not make a simple tasks.
If i'm wrong, please correct me. If someone could help with the settings, also i would be thankful. all i need is to have separate VLAN with it's own IP range. with is own VLAN. With it's own SSID, and ONE or TWO ethernet ports, that are connected directly to the same VLAN and 2nd DHCP pool.
For years i was trying to learn and understand this platform. Where is my fault (or manufacturer) that i could not. I've learned linux faster then mikrotik.
Going to sleep today. Will 100% switch back to Rukus as for wireless solutions, but for the routers, i'm stuck... Help me to move out of this stuck situation. I would like to learn and understand mikrotik, but don;t want to spend all my life doing this. Believe that there are better options, with much smaller labyrinth to pass trough.
