Mikrotik hEX RB750Gr3 Router Discussion

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Patrick

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Since this is a little box in the lab I wanted to start a discussion.

I got mine on Amazon last week Amazon.com: MikroTik RB750Gr3 hEX 880MHz Dual Core 256MB 5xGb USB L4: Computers & Accessories and have been testing since.

Overall the pricing was in the $60 range making it affordable. It has the newer RouterOS installed with features like OpenVPN "light" (e.g. lacking in compression support.)

Power consumption thus far has been under 3W.

I did have one, very strange, incident. I unplugged a cable on a different subnet and then somehow an interface started broadcasting 192.168.88.0/24 DHCP addresses, which was turned off prior to the cable removal.

Has anyone ever seen anything like this? I know it happened because a new HPE server had its iLO port grab a 192.168.88.x address when it was hooked onto the main network (not on 192.168.88.x)
 

marv

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I prefer to reset-configuration with no defaults. Also, its routeros, so that might simply be a bug :)

How would this compare to RB850Gx2? Based on their product page, it seems 30% faster for double the price of hEX.
 

Patrick

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@marv, no RB850GX2 here. I do think you can continue to spend more and get significantly better performance.