Note that ‘ant file upload’ also causes my router to have palpations, even with zero nodes running.
The prior network was fine, but this one is a killer. My boys hate me when they are playing fortnite and I’m trying to ‘ant file upload’ anything! 
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Just seeing this post - i must have missed it! Sounds like it is what i need. Going to order it!
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The Marvell 88E6393 is an industrial switch “Link Street” platform that has L3 routing support.
That i did not realise. That is much better than most switches in general routers. Most do not have any L3 capabilities.
EDIT: his pricing is out of date and Amazon has them in stock most of the time and much cheaper than his thoughts on price.
Personally I added a separate wifi device. Often you compromise on capabilities or cost with combined units. Plenty of very cheap wifi AP and/or wifi routers and end up with a great all round router and wifi 7 at cheaper than a combined MikroTek with similar capabilities. Also I can position the wifi point anywhere, I have mine now on top of book shelves inches from ceiling. It is away from the level of kitchen noise and will provide better coverage than where I can position the router.
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wifi on microtik isnt all that great.
you can maybe still us your old wifi though if you manage to disable dhcp and routing on it and you connect a lan port instead of the wan port to your microtik.
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Yeah, I read mixed reviews on the wifi, but tbh, I don’t know whether my existing router was above average either!
I think I’ll try the integrated solution and see how it fares. If it’s bad, I’ll plug either my old router or some specialist wifi gear in.
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I agree wifi is sucking on mikrotik. I was on a standard issue TP-Link before.
I did read that setting the correct signal strength makes a difference. Something to do with legals depending on country. We’ll see!
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I’m in Afghanistan as it seems to have the best wifi strength 
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Meanwhile reports of pigeons dropping from the skies over the West End are flooding in.
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Say what you like about the Taliban but they like good wifi
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I got a cheap wifi 7 and its getting 1.1 or more Gbps over wifi but since its plugged into a 1Gbps port on the router I am actually limited by that. I could use the 2.5Gbps port and get the full speed, but meh the internet is max 40Mbps uplink
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That a good thing isn’t it seeing the flying rats fall from the skys
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I am not sure where this belongs, but I didn’t want to make a new topic here (moderators can move this to an appropriate topic if required), but for those running Alpine containers, here is a quick snippet off code I use at home on adhoc basis to restart the antnode services that have stopped due to 50% cpu utilization (due to accidentally over provisioning or stopping due to unforeseen higher than usual host CPU usage for whatever reason).
It could be easily tweaked to be used for a slow ramp up off antnodes to maintain less than 50% CPU after initially adding them via antctl add command.
Note: This would be bypassing the node registry updates via antctl start command, so use with caution.
Needs pwsh installed on the container (instructions not included here for installing pwsh package):
$services = rc-status --crashed
foreach($service in $services.Split([System.Environment]::NewLine))
{
if ($service -match 'antnode')
{
$cpu = mpstat 1 2 | awk 'END{print 100-$NF}'
$cpu = [double]$cpu
while ($cpu -ge 45)
{
write-host "Sleeping...CPU at $cpu"
start-sleep -seconds 5
$cpu = mpstat 1 2 | awk 'END{print 100-$NF}'
$cpu = [double]$cpu
}
write-host "CPU at $cpu - Service: $service"
$command = "/etc/init.d/$service stop"
sh -c $command
$command = "/etc/init.d/$service start"
sh -c $command
start-sleep -seconds 1
}
}
Note: This is not an official solution or recommended method for the above scenario, but an alternative means. No official support on the above either, 
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It doesn’t reset the peer ids if the antnode stopped by itself due to high cpu usage and was disconnected for prolonged period off time, and also assumes the overall number of nodes registered as a service ideally is using less than 50% cpu utilization to begin with.
I figure it may come handy for some power users to tweak as necessary if running 100s of antnodes within Alpine containers, and intentionally trying to not be dependent on the node registry update to perform the above operations (as that can take a really long time with 100s of antnodes on a single host).
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Would it be possible for somone who knows the Mirkotik firewall to give recommendations, a guide or share settings for a good setup, Example i run this configuration at the moment, tried to set it up similar to what was shown in a mikortik youtube guide video.
Without knowing exactly you are trying to achieve its a bit hard to recommend
Here is what I have for fw filter-rules. I have port forwarding and hairpin routing. Port-forwarding rules are in the NAT tab
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Don’t make me dig up my portable acoustic terminal with its 110/300 baud handset cups and new fangle thermal print head
Similar to this one. I am not sure of the current condition of mine, but plan to get it working again to hook into my PDP-10 if it has a serial port (RS-232) which it should also have
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I had this same modem! It was my second modem. Quite the upgrade back in the day. Used to Dial into to my friends BBS.
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Nice! I’ve just installed my Mikrotik and so far so good.
Wifi seems ok so far, but will find out more over the next days. I’ve split the 2ghz / 5ghz channels, at it seemed to be switching network when I pushed uploads to autonomi. With the channels separated, it seems solid so far.
I’ll mess with port forwarding and see how well it deals with my hosted nodes too, so the above will come in handy (I was wondering where port forwarding was setup!).
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