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by TiredOfLife
543 days ago
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> The only thing is they're definitely not designed for regular consumers, you at least need familiarity with Linux networking. Mikrotik has had quickset (a single page configuration for home use) for 8+ years, Android Home app for 3+ years |
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port forwarding? ofcourse how else can the kid have a minecraft server with friends
dynamic dns? then the friends don't need to search "what's my ip" every time
parental controls? to schedule how much time they can play minecraft...
I like Mikrotik but for anyone trying to go beyond the barebones default firewall/router/ap on the quickset page you need to be prepared to learn. i.e. To make a DHCP reservation, you go through the menus until you click IP, then you realise you don't click on DHCP client to set up a DHCP client you go into DHCP server and try to give a device a reservation which requires the step of making it static first then seperately setting it's IP.
The complaint basically boils down to: they have all the options there and available and the least common task is just as easy to do as the 2nd most common (after initial basic setup), and if a task touches multiple parts of the config you need to touch each of those parts. Great for someone who knows what they're doing but for a home user it would be great to have more quickset pages for the 2nd to 10th most common tasks (as intagible as that list is).