Well, my 13 years working at Microsoft sure hasn't prepared me to configure / or upgrade the RB450. RouterOS 4.10, takes seemingly a minute to make any changes through Winbox, with of course no feedback, so I have no clue whether it is working or not. Saw that I am able to upgrade to 5.8x stable version which totally excited me, until I realized that I apparently need to either have a serial cable or be connected to the internet to upgrade. I have the RouterBOARD attached directly to my computer with the upgrade file on my computer, but am unable to upgrade. I want so much to drive over this router with my truck.

I'm surprised that Mikrotik hasn't taken up the cool idea, that a router should by default... work. Then the user can modify all the details meeting their orgs requirements.

Anyone have any suggestions on a non-mikrotik router that can handle extremely heavy p2p traffic?

Ummm

to upgrade

Drag the NPK file to Winbox (any menu). Wait for upload. Reboot. That's it!!!!

Well, my 13 years working at Microsoft

Well there's your problem!

Well there's your problem!

Yea, tell me about it. Trying to change that as we speak... but bad economic times... and I'd rather have a job than not. In Seattle, we are still enjoying a 4.5% unemployment rate and that is mainly due to Microsoft. If the big giant wasn't here, we'd be sucking pavement with everyone else.

Ummm

to upgrade

Drag the NPK file to Winbox (any menu). Wait for upload. Reboot. That's it!!!!

Okay, so I tried this and it dies every time.
1. When I drag into child window area I get the error "Key Change Error", "Could not change the key - invalid key"
2. When I drag it into my file list, it starts to copy and at about ~314KB I get the dialog... "Error", "Router has been disconnected".

And my license does say I am upgrade-able to v7.x, Level 5

Ok, so I finally got the .npk file into the File list. Then I dragged that file into the open space where it "downloaded" it again, but then it once again gave me an "Could not change the key - invalid key"

OMG! It is working!

Must be the build I had (v4.10).

1. old versions (such as yours) support dragging only to the "files" menu
2. why are you using the MAC address to connect? This is the problem. use the IP address and it will work fast and accurate.

well, there are some configuration wizards im CLI, like, to set up dhcp-server /ip dhcp-server setup' it will set up pool, dhcp-server network and dhcp-server and by default it will pick up IP address from interface you want to set up it on and create everything else to use that ip address. Quite useful.

On the other hand you can go here:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:In ... figuration

maybe that link would render your router a bit more useful.