V5.26 RB951G-2HnD
Hello, this is my first post here but I am going to try and make it as informative as possible. I would just like to make sure the main settings I have are pretty secure for a home network, and a couple questions about the Ethernet ports and port priority. I am fairly smart when it comes to computers and following directions. I cannot code though. I was looking for a new router for my house and was going to go with one of your generics like Netgear or Linksys, but after lots of research some people suggested Microtik. I have never heard of them before, but from what I read, they are rock solid stable, which is what I want in a router. No wifi dropouts etc. First thing I did was password protect the router so no one else can get into it.
I hooked it up and the defaults all seemed okay. I don't understand a lot of the features, and I'm not looking for all the details, I just want my home wifi network to be secure. I've been studying the wiki a lot also. I skipped the "Quick Set" at the top and went straight to wireless first, security profiles. Set it up to dynamic keys, WPA2 PSK only. aes ccm selected only and everything else default. I enabled management protection, although I don't really know what that is, was in the wiki.
Changed my wireless SSID, AP bridge, Freq 2462 and the 20/40 below settings, wireless protocol any, all chains enabled HT tx and rx. All my wireless devices connect well to it. Made sure UPnP is disabled. Will these settings along with the other stock parameters be okay for a home network, not to be hacked into?
The only other stuff I have a question about are the ethernet ports. Under interfaces it has the bridge-local listed along with ether1-5, and wlan1. Ether 1 is my gateway, connected directly to my cable modem. On port 2 I have my Playstation 4 hooked up, and port 3 my Playstation 3. It shows ether 2 as the master, and the rest slaves. Now my question is, is it possible to set these up so I can see individual transfer rates in each row, versus them all showing in ether2? I would like just ether2 to show my PS4 data usage, and ether3 to show my PS3 usage. Right now, even though the are connected physically through different ports and the indicator lights on the router light up for each port, the traffic only shows on ether2 in the interface list combined. This is what I would like split up if possible. Any steps to do that, or is it best to leave it as it is?
Last question, is there any way to assign priority to the ethernet ports? I would like it set up that my ethernet gets priority, hooked up to my gaming systems. So lets say someone is on the PC using wireless and I'm in the middle of a game, I'd want priority set to the ethernet ports even if it means slowing down the PCs and other wireless functions. I see under Bridge->Ports I can open up the settings for my ethernet and there is a section that says priority= 80 (hex) and path cost=10. Is this maybe a way to give priority to the ethernet cables? I just don't know what numbers to assign though if it is.
Sorry for this being so long, but I would like to get these few things worked out. Everything else I'm not looking for advanced features, just the rock solid stability people talk about with these routers. Range is fantastic also on it.
PS, there was something I saw in a tutorial video to set up logging to see if anyone is trying to hack into my router. Is this pretty simply to set up?