MikroTik RouterOS Device Mode: Home, Basic, and Advanced – and Their Impact on Hotspot Setup

MikroTik RouterOS Device Mode: Home, Basic, and Advanced – and Their Impact on Hotspot Setup

MikroTik RouterOS offers flexible configuration options for everything from home routers to ISP-grade hotspots. When setting up your MikroTik device, you’ll see a Device Mode option in Quick Set — allowing you to choose between Home, Basic, or Advanced modes. These modes define how much control you have over the [...]

»

MikroTik RouterOS User Authentication via RADIUS ServerNovember 19, 2017

MikroTik RouterOS has a strong local user database that is enough to manage a single MikroTik RouterOS user. But if your network has more than one MikroTik Routers, it is always better to use a RADIUS server to manage RouterOS user centrally. MikroTik User Manager RADIUS Server is a centralized [...]

READ MORE »

»
»

MikroTik Hotspot with Bandwidth Limitation and Prepaid Billing SystemJanuary 14, 2018

Say, you are a network administrator and want to establish a network that will have user bandwidth package management facility with prepaid billing system as well as partner advertisement facility. Then, MikroTik Hotspot Server Configuration with MikroTik User Manager Radius Server will be a wise decision. Because, MikroTik User Manager [...]

READ MORE »

»

FreeRADIUS Installation and Basic Configuration on CentOS 7November 28, 2018

FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance and highly customizable open source RADIUS server. Anyone can use FreeRADIUS without any charge and can customize his RADIUS server according to his organizational requirements. In my previous article, I discussed how to install and configure user manager RADIUS server developed by MikroTik. The [...]

READ MORE »

»

MikroTik WiFi MAC Authentication with UserMan RADIUS ServerDecember 23, 2019

MikroTik Wireless Router is popularly used as WiFi AP. MikroTik WiFi AP has a lot of features to tune WiFi network as your requirements. MAC authentication is one the amazing and useful features in MikroTik WiFi. MAC authentication enables filtering MAC address that means no MAC can be able to [...]

READ MORE »

»

FreeRADIUS User Group Management with MySQLJanuary 3, 2019

FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS Server. A number of network devices can be used with freeRADIUS Server as a RADIUS Client including MikroTik Router. As a modular RADIUS suite, freeRADIUS accepts MySQL module to query user authentication and authorization and to store accounting data. In my previous article, I [...]

READ MORE »

»

MikroTik Hotspot with Data Limit and Prepaid Billing SystemJanuary 19, 2018

If you are a network administrator and want to establish a network that will have data limitation package with prepaid billing system, MikroTik Hotspot Server with MikroTik User Manager Radius Server will be your best solution. Because, MikroTik User Manager is a poplar Radius application that will give facility to [...]

READ MORE »

»

Ubuntu RADIUS Server Configuration with freeRADIUSSeptember 3, 2022

Ubuntu Server is one of most popular open-source Linux Server distribution. It is stable and reliable than other Linux distributions. So, enterprise level application can be hosted on Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu RADIUS Server is popularly used for remote authentication and mostly used with the freeRADIUS open source RAIDUS application. freeRADIUS [...]

READ MORE »

MORE POSTS »