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mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Wed Oct 19, 2011 4:54 pm

I have several ubiquiti routerstations that I would like to use. Is there a way to copy configurations from a mikrotik routerboard to a ubiquiti routerstation? Thanks for any help.
 
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Re: mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:46 am

MikroTik RouterOS is much more sophisticated and advanced, there is no way to do the same things on a ubnt device as on the MikroTik device.
 
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Re: mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Thu Oct 20, 2011 8:19 pm

Normis,
Thanks for the reply. After investigating online I see that Mikrotik is more like Linux and UBNT is more like windows. I still have about 60 of these UBNT routerstations that I would like to use if possible and mix with Mikrotik equipment. They currently are being used in a mesh network at a college campus and instead of throwing them away or selling them I was hoping to revamp the mesh and include mikrotik's as the main portals. Do you think this is a good idea? Thanks again for the help.
 
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Re: mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:44 pm

Normis,
Thanks for the reply. After investigating online I see that Mikrotik is more like Linux and UBNT is more like windows. I still have about 60 of these UBNT routerstations that I would like to use if possible and mix with Mikrotik equipment. They currently are being used in a mesh network at a college campus and instead of throwing them away or selling them I was hoping to revamp the mesh and include mikrotik's as the main portals. Do you think this is a good idea? Thanks again for the help.
Just curious, what exactly went wrong with your mesh? bandwidth issues? 8)
In my opinion mesh is almost never a good idea, unless high bandwidth isn't really necessary.
Put openwrt on it and use them as plain access points, cabled to a switch and a mikrotik router as gateway, this way they might be usefull.

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B

PS Ubnt also uses linux (openwrt), but like normis said, ROS is a lot more mature and advanced.
 
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Re: mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Sun Oct 23, 2011 4:15 am

Is it possible to copy over ROS from a RB to a UBNT router?
 
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mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Sun Oct 23, 2011 6:27 am

No
 
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Re: mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Thu Nov 10, 2011 8:58 pm

Just to reply to B,
Nothing went wrong with the mesh, what happened was a financial problem at the apartment complex. They have 60 UBnt routerstations in their possession and would like to use them if possible. I never really used UBnt and in helping them out if I can, would like to use this equipment. I would rather not flash the UBnt units with dd-wrt if I don't have to. Thanks for the replies. Have a good day. :)
 
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Re: mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:27 pm

I know a lot of people around here use Ubiquiti radios, but have them connected to a MikroTik to do the heavy lifting (QoS, Hotspot, firewalling, etc). I have personally set up a few networks using a series of UniFi's for Layer2 connectivity, but then hooking them up to a 450G to handle QoS and routing.
 
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Re: mikrotik & ubiquiti routerstation

Fri Nov 11, 2011 1:40 am

i just hope someday both companies merged :p so i can put mikrotik OS on my current ubnt devices :lol: or at least, NSTREME compatible with AIRMAX