What is Mikrotik?

Mikrotik RouterOS ™ is the operating system and software that can be used to make manjadi router computer network reliability, includes many features designed for network ip and wireless networks, match used by ISPs and hotspot providers.

To install Mikrotik does not require additional software or other components. Mikrotik is designed for easy use and very good to use for administrative purposes such as computer network design and build a network computer system to a small scale even though the complex.

Mikrotik MikroTikls made by a company in the city of Riga, Latvia. Latvia is a country that is a "fraction" of the country was the Soviet Union or Russia now. With the name trademarked Mikrotik start that was established in 1995 initially for the company ditujuka Internet services (ISPs) or Internet Service Provider (ISP) that serves its customers use wireless technology or wireless. MikroTikls currently provide services to many wireless ISP for Internet access service dibanyak countries in the world and is also very popular in Indonesia.

Mikrotik on standard hardware-based Personal Computer (PC) with the known stability, quality control and flexibility for various types of data packet routing and handling of the process or better known as the term routing. Mikrotik made PC-based router as useful for a lot of ISPs who want to run several applications ranging from the mild to the most advanced. Example applications that can be applied with the addition Mikrotik routing capacity is application access (bandwidth) management, firewall, wireless access point (WiFi), backhaul link, hotspot system, Netword Virtual Private (VPN) server and many other.

Mikrotik software is not free if you want to utilize the full, required a license from MikroTikls to be paid menggunakanya alias. Mikrotik known by the term in Level licensors. Available from Level 0 and 1, 3 to 6, for Level 1 is a demo version of Mikrotik can be used free of charge with the functions that are very limited. Of course every level have the ability to vary according to the price, Level 6 is the highest level with the most complete functions. Can be described briefly described as follows:

* Level 0 (free); does not require a license to use and the use of features is limited only for 24 hours after installation is done.
* Level 1 (demo); at this level you can use it as a standard routing function only 1 with the settings and have no time limitation to use them.
* Level 3; already includes level 1 plus the ability to menajemen all hardware based or Ethernet Network Card and pengelolan type of wireless client devices.
* Level 4; include level 1 and 3 plus the ability to manage the type of wireless device access points.
* Level 5, includes level 1, 3 and 4 plus the ability to manage the number of hotspot users more.
* Level 6, includes all levels and does not have any limitation.

The process for installnya akan any posts on my next criticism.