Mikrotik CRS226-24G-2S+IN Cloud Gigabit Router Switch 24 Ports, L3, OSL5.

This is a great little switch! I bought this to replace my Cisco SG300, which was fine, but I much prefer RouterOS. However, there is one pitfall that I hadn't paid very close attention to before I bought it: while this unit sports the same RouterOS as every other MikroTik device, it is NOT suitable for NAT/routing or filtering! It just doesn't have enough horsepower to do anything beyond switching at full speed and it'll top out at ~25Mbps throughput. But with a built-in switch chip, and no routing/NAT or filtering, it's extremely fast! The dual SFP+ ports are a NICE bonus (port 1 is backward-compatible with SFP 1.25GbE, but port 2 is SFP+ 10GbE only). If you want to do routing, look into the CCR series.Oh, and here's a tip: as I bought two of these, I also purchased a pair of  Diablo SFP-10G-SR Cisco Compatible 10Gb Short Reach SFP+ Fiber Transceiver  since they were less expensive than the MikroTik branded one, and they work perfectly (gotta use that OM3 or OM4 fiber, though, to get that 10Gbps).

The hardware works well. The software is still on a journey. I needed additional ports for my home lab/house network. I decided to add the CRS to my Mikrotik 2011 router. It was much harder to figure out how to get it configured to leverage the switch CPU for wire speed switxhing with VLAN isolation, trunking, and packet priorities. Giod news is the software will continue to improve and I'll learn a lot about new mikrotik switches. I still rely on my Cisco switches for SAN and link aggregation (some future release maybe for Mikrotik )

Amazingly capable for the price... Just remember to upgrade the firmware!!!Not the easiest thing to use, (has a totally funky CLI), but its got the speed, as long as you arn't using complex layer 3 features. Do not expect LACP for Link-Agg, as that will involve the CPU, the devices bottleneck.

There is no router on the market at this price point that can achieve the performance of this CRS. Two SFP+ ports, a fanless design, and 24 gigabit WAN/LAN ports to play with. In the hands of the right person, it can do all sorts of amazing stuff. But, it presupposes a level of expertise that most home users will simply not have. This is a device for professionals or folks with a good background in networking. Otherwise, you are likely best off using it as a Level 2 switch and putting someone else's router in front of it as a firewall.I found the interface to be even less intuitive than that of the Ubiquiti Edgerouter. The prime difference being that the Edgerouter actually has a decent web interface and several Wizards that step users through the process of different common configurations (i.e. 2WAN with sharing / failover, and so on). The only 'wizard' the CRS includes is setting up 'bridge mode' (which turns it into a Level 2 switch) or the 'router' configuration (stock) which requires some additional data (i.e. DHCP or fixed WAN IP address, etc.). Thankfully, the unit asks for a password on this top-level page as part of the initial router setup process.The online WIKI can only be described as seriously deficient for beginners. There is NO step-by-step guide for common configurations to follow - see the forums for that sort of information. I'm also unsure what the point was of including a low-quality LCD display with the unit. A BLE interface to work with the console port or perhaps a USB port for the same purpose would allow out-of-band access to the device for setup and troubleshooting. The current app presupposes that the CRS can be reached via LAN/WLAN, which may or may not happen depending on whatever mistake the user made in configuring the unit.For now, I will use the thing as a switch and someday work my way up to using it as a router, enable VLAN, etc. But first, I will have to learn a lot more about how to set it up and properly enable common router functionalities, such as NAT, DHCP, DNS, and so on.