MikroTik Routers and Switches Valuable Features
Rivka Alexander
Content Specialist at a tech company with 51-200 employees
MikroTik Routers and Switches are some of the best routers around, security-wise, followed by Cisco. They are very accommodating with their sockets, which is crucial for sending signals to a switch. The ports, where we plug in the RG45 cables, are particularly useful. Overall, I find them very accommodating.
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Bayzed Islam
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
I find MikroTik Routers and Switches easy to install and maintain. They simplify the process of creating access lists, allowing me to understand my network's activities effectively. Load balancing is very good with MikroTik Routers and Switches. Once set up, the device is simple to maintain.
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AnikIslam
Senior Executive at a import and exporter with 10,001+ employees
MikroTik Routers and Switches support every protocol, making them suitable for a wide range of routing policies. They are cost-effective and support features such as routing protocol management, firewall settings, and QE management.
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MikroTik Routers and Switches
December 2025
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Petr Pouzar
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The best advantages of MikroTik Routers and Switches are that for the price, it's a good product, and there are many abilities to adjust, set up these products, and extend for other functions. New MikroTik Routers and Switches can have containers where you can program them with new functions.
From my point of view, the most important functionality of MikroTik Routers and Switches is routing, switching, and VPN functions.
MikroTik Routers and Switches have excellent performance for their price.
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Alejandro Del Rosal
Business Development Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
The price is a big factor. They are very affordable, and the quality is high. Another important feature is the software – it's very powerful and open. We find those features very interesting.
It is one of the best products and has good networking capabilities.
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Akram Zaki Hussein
System and Network Administrator at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
One of the primary advantages is its competitive pricing in the market. Despite the more affordable price, its devices perform efficiently in network operations. It stands out as a top choice, providing exceptional performance.
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Marius Celliers
Managing Director Technology at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I think the tool's most valuable is its firewall. Cisco assisted them in developing it, making it easy to use. They expose a lot of background features, so you can go deep into integration, similar to Cisco switches. You can choose to use the command line interface or user interface.
MikroTik Routers and Switches are very customizable. We can add our scripts to perform specific tasks. For example, we log data to a database whenever clients connect to specific areas. This allows us to keep track of connections by integrating our scripts into the routing sessions.
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Ahmad Alimuddin
IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The valuable features are the hotspot, network address, registration, and firewall.
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Rajesh Panwala
Managing Director at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
Load balancing is one of the valuable features of the solution. The best thing, from an end-user perspective, is the GUI, which MikroTik provides vis-a-vis any other routing options. In short, MikroTik provides a very user-friendly GUI option.
Rabiul Islam
Sr. System Engineer at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We like the solution because it is cost-effective. We just have to buy the hardware. We don't have to buy any software, and we don't have to renew that product. Just the hardware, and we can use it for routing purposes for a lifetime. It also provides some basic security, but we don't use future security.
MikroTik routers are very user-friendly and easy to manage. They support a wide variety of routing protocols, including BGP, OSPF, and RIP. We use MikroTik routers for both routing and switching.
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AleksandarIvanovic
Head of IT department at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
MikroTik offers full enterprise capabilities at a very reasonable price. If we already have it and need to improve our networking skills, it becomes essential to configure it in detail. Perhaps some might see this as a disadvantage, but in my case, I find it highly beneficial as it keeps my networking knowledge up-to-date. I utilize it extensively for computing and completing tasks. Moreover, new features are constantly being introduced, making it even more valuable. For instance, features like DOH and containers are available, allowing us to install services like Pi-hole within McAfee. I believe it's a highly useful tool from my perspective. Some other brands are quite expensive, whereas MikroTik offers reliability at a decent price, providing us with the capabilities we need.
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Orlando Silva
CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Our clients like the product because it's an open-source solution. The features of the equipment fit all the needs of the customers.
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Simon Wanyutu
Founder at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
The deployment process of MikroTik routers and switches is very convenient since it is not command-driven and comes with a graphical user interface, making it much easier to operate.
In comparison to Cisco products, which can be challenging to deploy, MikroTik devices were easier to set up and had a much faster turnaround time.
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Bayzed Islam
IT Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees
What I like best about MikroTik Routers and Switches is its easy handling. The product also has a significantly good interface.
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Peter Heiniger
European Sales Director at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees
The stability of the market and the ability to remotely control them are the most valuable features for me.
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AmmarHaidar
Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
MikroTik is a good product.
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Josephat Magesa
SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER at a tech services company
The solution is very flexible. On the MikroTik router, you may have it as your many ports, so you can make one port or two ports routers, and the rest you can have as a switch.
Technical support is good.
It's pretty stable.
The product is growing in popularity.
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Chad Nel
Senior System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
They work nice, and they're easy to set up, and everything.
The routing is nice and straightforward. I run all the MikroTiks and we connect to our office. Therefore, the routing is so easy and the firewall's easy to set up. The queues obviously throttle certain users if they're abusing it.
Everything just works easy and fine. To block websites is easy. It just works fine for me.
The stability is great.
The product makes scaling very simple.
In terms of the initial setup, it's very straightforward.
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MarkBanks
Solution Architect Team Lead at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature is the price because it's highly cost-effective concerning the functionalities provided within the box.
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Kourosh N.
Information Technology Administrator at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product is simple to use. We chose the solution due to its price.
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Terah Kaggwa
Technical manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
MikroTik Routers and Switches are very competitively priced, which is important. Also, they perform well and get the job done.
Additionally, I appreciate that they offer both a CLI and a user-friendly GUI for management.
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Khokon Roy
Support Engineer, VPN & Security | Network Operation at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
The load balancing is very good.
It works very well for enterprise-level organizations.
The setup is easy.
It's stable.
We can scale the product.
The solution is very easy to manage.
We find it to be quite a flexible solution.
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Udochi Ododo
Manager, Technical Planning and Solutions Design at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The most valuable feature is its bandwidth management ability.
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MichaelCinco
Information Technology Supervisor at a construction company with 11-50 employees
We like that the solution is full-featured. I have access to all the functions that I need for routing without the cost involved of having those - compared to a Cisco device or other devices like HP. With those, you need to license some of the features just to access them. MikroTik has access to all the features of routing so you can customize or be flexible in your deployment.
The solution is stable and the performance is good.
It has a lot of features. I haven't explored them all yet.
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MikeKajubi
Operational Manager at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees
You can find many Youtube videos that can help with the configuration. The tool's VLAN setup, firewall, and the rules are simple. The hotspot feature is good as well.
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reviewer2100363
Support Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
The pricing is very good.
It's a very flexible solution. I can't even imagine using other devices, like Fortigate, in the same way. It's much easier to use MicroTik.
It's great for small businesses or home offices.
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Roshan-Sequeira
Project Manager at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a reliable router.
I've never had any issues with the solution. It's been stable.
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Charbel Hajj
Senior Supervisor at a tech company with 11-50 employees
MikroTik Routers and Switches are very good switches.
They are very compact.
They use wireless and wired connections that include all of the features.
It's a small firewall that can be managed in that way.
The interface is good. It is easy to deal with.
There are a lot of features included.
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Parameshwar Pattila
Director at a non-profit with 11-50 employees
I like MikroTik's GUI. It's completely handy and easy to handle because of its GUI. Despite other brands like Cisco urging me to switch, I didn't because they don't have a GUI. This is the most comfortable thing in my project that anyone can use easily.
It's effortless to maintain MikroTik routers because both screens make it very easy in GUI mode. You can easily interact with your hardware.
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Manish Nalawade
Owner at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The most valuable feature is the ease of use.
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Iman Mo
Senior Network Administrator at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
The initial setup isn't too hard. The deployment is quite easy and rather quick as well.
The stability is good.
Technical support is excellent.
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Kunal Sabharwal
CEO & Founder at a retailer with 1-10 employees
They have amazing speed and reliability, and they also provide value for money. They are pretty powerful.
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CEO at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
This equipment is resilient and available at a good price.
The operating system on the router, RouterOS, is open-source.
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Rodney Teopengco
Chief Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
They are very good at providing the bandwidth for multi-tenants and multi-dwelling units. We're managing WiFi hotspots for hundreds of locations, and the speed and performance are quite there. They also have very cheap 10G products that come with really good and flexible software.
They are way cheaper than the top brands, and they're able to deliver the same performance and capabilities.
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Bambang Andjar Prasetyono
Head Corporate Service at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The tool is simple and reliable. The most valuable function for us is filtering. We can manage which connections users can and cannot make. This is important as our office has about 2,200 employees using the Internet. It provides benefits because it's available and simple. Our IT staff is familiar with it, making it easy to operate and manage.
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Johan Smook
Shareholder, Angel funder and coach at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
The tool's most valuable features are flexibility and configuration. It can be used in large setups.
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Diego Mirones
General Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
This product is very good in terms of bandwidth administration.
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Hermann Medrano
Telecommunications Engineer at a university with 51-200 employees
I think they have very strong routers because they have multiple processors. I like its easy configuration with applications. For example, configuration with Linux, Iptables, and routing protocols.
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Cosmas Makurira
Technician at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I like the routing features.
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Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The most valuable aspect of this solution is the combination of value for money. They're extremely cost effective, yet they provide you with an extensive feature set of things you can do across the board. Also, they're pretty reliable, as far as equipment goes.
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B2B Product Management at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
We are a mid-sized provider and we are acquiring smaller providers. MikroTik is a brand that is used across these ISPs and we have the experience with the product within our company. There's a familiarity with the solution we appreciate. The reason that we decided to keep this brand is that it's reliable. It offers good IT Station reports.
The solution is stable.
The product has proven to be scalable.
The pricing is good. There's a good ratio of pricing to performance, which is why we use that product.
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ICT Manager/Systems Administrator at a university with 201-500 employees
The stability of the solution is excellent.
We've enjoyed the fact that it has very good performance.
The scalability potential is very good.
The solution is very easy to install and the implementation doesn't take too long.
The pricing is very competitive.
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Firewall Engineer at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
I have found one of the most valuable features to be the hotspot network.
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Ahmad Alimuddin
IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
The MikroTik Hotspot is great. My company uses the Captive Portal as a staff login to access the internet and the company portal. Via the Hotspot, my company connects to the API.
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Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This is a good solution.
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IT Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
They are stable.
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Engineer in Computer Sciences at a government with 201-500 employees
The routing features are the solution's most valuable aspects.
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IT Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The main reason we use this solution is for the price — it's very cheap.
Personally, I know that Fortinet, Cisco, and Palo Alto are great products, but my customers are just interested in the lowest price. I can't change their minds, it's up to them.
reviewer1388337
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
This solution is easy to configure and it's very flexible.
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Information Technology Manager at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
I really have not found anything valuable or special about MikroTik routers. I have not used them a lot and have not done enough with the product to know if it is good or bad in certain areas that I can put my finger on.
In general, I know that it is functioning and we have not had any breaches or any kind of attacks through our firewall. We have not had any downtime with it. It has been a solid performer that way.
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Network Security Engineer at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable features are the versatility and ease of use.
We make use of a script that will automatically re-route traffic when connections are slow.
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Mahmood Shah
Solutions architect at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The load balancing is very good.
The solution offers very good multi-routing.
The firewall is very good.
For the interface, I always use Winbox.
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TamsanqaSemela
IT Systems Engineer at a tech company with 1-10 employees
The pricing is a great selling point.
We find the VLANs, Load Balancing, HotSpot, Traffic Management the most valuable part of the solution.
We're very happy with what we are getting out of the solution in general. The features are good. They're comparable to other brands such as Cisco and HP.
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MartynasLaugalys
Network Expert at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The best part about MikroTik Routers is the price.
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NikitaMoroz
Team Lead at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
This solution offers features that make it convenient for debugging.
Traffic classification is a very convenient feature.
The flexible IP firewall and IP network address translation make it very easy to give access to internal services.
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GalFuchs
Technical Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have found this solution is quite robust and there are a lot of features in a small device.
The dimensions of this unit are quite good.
You do not need extra licensing to use all of the features.
reviewer1042011
NOC Manager/Network Administrator at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The most valuable feature is controlling the bandwidth. This is helpful because the users' bandwidth requirements keep changing, and we have three connections to handle the data.
The wireless switches are good.
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Works at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
The cost and versatility are the solution's most valuable features. You can do anything with them if you know how to. The solution has a whole portfolio of routing features available.
You don't need to buy special licenses for the solution. You have everything there. The configuration capabilities are good too. They're very flexible.
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Network Engineer at a maritime company with 201-500 employees
The radius and wireless features are the most valuable aspects of the solution.
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Erik Jansson
Technology Manager with 51-200 employees
The most valuable feature is that you can do anything on all platforms.
The GUI is also good, and the CLI is excellent.
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I.T. Manager at a university with 51-200 employees
The two most valuable features to me are the firewall and traffic bonding.
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Network Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Winbox
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ShabeerMohamed
CAD Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The product is very reliable.
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