alt Hacker NewsMikroTik is a nightmare from what I have heard, companies who invested hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot wait for the contract to expire to replace everything.
For homelab, you are far better served buying a second hand Sophos baremetal/server rack mounted, and installing OPNSense in it.
I have a 2nd hand Sophos SG210 Rev3 from eBay, replaced the Celeron CPU with an i7 one, 16GB, new SSD, dual 10G NIC, it had been running like a dream.
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sdsdssweew213 • yesterday at 1:14 PM
Another option is to just buy some used enterprise mini PC (google project tinyminimicro) with PCIE slot, and use that. Probably lower power consumption than a full rack mounted server, definitely takes much less space (unless you already have the rack).
bloqs • yesterday at 7:18 AM
Power consumption?
> cannot wait for the contract to expire
There is no contract with MikroTik. You buy the hardware, that's it. The software and updates are free.