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  • I’ve had the opposite experience with Mikrotik.

    I really wanted to like it, but (I say this as a former Cisco instructor) their approach to UI and documentation is terrible (the docs don’t tell you what’s what, just tell you how to setup a specific config, without explaining what they’re doing or why, even worse, they start numbering their eth interfaces from 1 - it took me a while to figure this out).

    Worse, it was unstable as hell. I setup one just as a test, with one laptop connected via ethernet. Every couple days I wouldn’t be able to even ping the laptop - I’d have to reboot the router, manually, since it had become unresponsive.

    This with a simple config (just eth2 is LAN, eth1 is external), and no rules.

    It may have been a faulty unit, but as a consumer I can’t risk assuming this, especially given the very poor docs and clumsy UI/config approach - it all indicates this is a very immature product, definitely not something I’d recommend to a newbie.

    I hope they can really improve - the form factor is excellent, the price point is unbeatable, the capabilites of the hardware are extensive.






  • I have never once (unintentionally) superheated water in a microwave, and I’ve been using them since about 1980 (and God knows we were idiots with them back then).

    It just doesn’t happen - there are too many imperfections in our containers, and too many minerals for it to happen much.

    I’ve experimented many times, and the reality is you have to work at superheating water in a microwave.

    For me, it’s taken things like a brand new Pyrex measuring cup (glass), and filtered water. I can do it with other stuff, but I’ve had to boil/cool it multiple times, something that isn’t really going to happen.