What’s New in Compass WiFi: Enhanced Subscriber Views, Better Analytics, and UI Upgrades
We've been heads-down improving the Subscriber View in Compass WiFi, and this release brings some of the biggest usability upgrades yet.
A Hidden WebFig Bug That Could Be Silently Breaking Your MikroTik Wi-Fi Configs
On a recent episode of Bridge Mode, hosts Marc from Admiral Platform and Tyler from DM-Tech Wireless walked through a strange and potentially serious bug they'd uncovered in RouterOS 7 — one that appears to affect every version they tested, including…
Admiral Platform Tips & Tricks 🚀
Here are some powerful features and shortcuts to help you get the most out of Admiral: Operations Tip: Spend time setting up your Admin Settings, Tags, and Groups early - it pays huge dividends as your deployment grows! 🔍 Quick…
Blank Backups in Admiral Platform?
Blank Backups in Admiral Platform? Your MikroTik SSH Host Key May Be Corrupt If your MikroTik backups are showing up blank in Admiral Platform, one possible cause is a corrupt SSH host key on the MikroTik itself. We recently helped…
What’s New in Admiral Platform: Cleaner Logs, WatchTower Backups, Hydra Import, and More
Admiral Platform continues to evolve with a focus on making MikroTik and network infrastructure management faster, cleaner, and easier at scale. Over the last few months, we’ve released several improvements across logging, WatchTower, router discovery, Router Health, historical tracking, and…
The SSH Protocol, Not Just For Shells
Recently Admiral added support for Dell switch backups in WatchTower, which faced unexpected difficulties. This, however, is not entirely unexpected. As the Admiral team has continued adding support for different devices, we’ve found plenty of situations where devices don’t necessarily…
MikroTik: Static DNS with dynamic IPs
If you host services from a home or small office connection, there’s a good chance your ISP gave you a dynamic public IP instead of a static one—which can make custom domains feel frustratingly unreliable. In this Case Study, we’ll…
Bridge Mode: Super Bowl Traffic, Smarter BGP, and the “Bang-for-the-Buck” MikroTik Wi-Fi Stack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKrWahs5pY Bridge Mode is where we get real with real-world operators—no vendor fluff, no theory-only takes—just the deployments, decisions, and lessons learned in production networks. In this episode, MikroTik Marc sits down with Tyler Casey from DMTech to unpack two…
What’s New in Admiral Platform: Uptime Report & Problematic Routers View
We've recently shipped two features that make it significantly easier to monitor fleet health and troubleshoot issues across your deployment. Uptime Report You'll now find a dedicated Uptime Report under Reports > Uptime Report. This page gives you a clear picture…
Allen Bradley + MikroTik + Admiral = yes, please!
One of our recent on-premise Admiral customers told us something we hear a lot: Admiral is incredible at centralizing the health and status of hundreds of MikroTik routers and switches—but he wished he had the same visibility, alerts, and notifications…
Visit Us at ISP America 2026
The Admiral Platform team is headed to ISP America 2026 in Atlanta, GA (March 2–5)—and we’d love to see you there. Stop by Booth #125 to get a hands-on look at what’s new in Admiral, including: Centralized MikroTik management built for ISPs and MSPs Automated speed…
Backups: New & Improved
Faster, more reliable backups for even the largest RouterOS configurations. Managing network infrastructure means managing configurations—and when those configurations grow large, backing them up reliably becomes a real challenge. Our development team recently tackled this head-on, and we're excited to…
RouterOS Script to Validate Connectivity
NETWORK ENGINEER TIP As part of building the VXLAN class, one of our engineers put together a useful helper script to streamline the process. It’s worth noting that this script is intended for transport links that use a /29 addressing scheme…
Scaling MikroTik Labs Worldwide with RoMON
As we built our MikroTik VXLAN class for Admiral Academy, one deliverable mattered as much as the curriculum itself: a lab environment that was powerful, safe, and frictionless for students anywhere in the world. To make the training truly hands-on,…
Choosing MikroTik Hardware for High-Performance VXLAN Networks
NETWORK ENGINEERING GUIDE A comprehensive guide to selecting the right MikroTik switches and routers for hardware-accelerated VXLAN deployments—from budget lab setups to terabit-scale ISP cores. One of the greatest strengths of MikroTik routers, switches, and access points is that nearly…
Introducing Script Commander — Automate & Scale Your MikroTik Fleet with One Click
Script Commander, is a new feature on Admiral Platform designed to give you better control over your MikroTik network — without the manual headaches. When managing dozens, hundreds, or thousands of MikroTiks, repetitive tasks like VLAN changes, firewall updates, DHCP…
Why Engineers Need Tik Training on MikroTik VxLAN with Dynamic Routing
When Networks Fail — It’s Rarely the Hardware Your routers aren’t broken — your design is.Most network failures in MikroTik environments trace back to misconfigurations at the architecture level: MTU mismatches, OSPF errors and misconfigurations, and missing redundancy. At Admiral, we’ve seen this…
Admiral Adds Neighbors — in Prep for Hydra! ⚓️
At Admiral, we’re always looking for ways to make your dashboard smarter, faster, and more complete. This month, we’re rolling out a brand-new feature inside the EXTRAS tab: Neighbors — your network visibility just got a whole lot clearer. Meet…
⚓ Tik Training: Master MikroTik VxLAN & Dynamic Routing in 6 Weeks
Build redundancy, resiliency, and scalability into your network — the Admiral way. When networks fail, it’s rarely because of bad luck — it’s because of bad design.At Admiral Academy, we’ve spent years operating and supporting MikroTik networks at scale for ISPs,…
Automated Speed Test Reporting for MikroTiks
At Admiral Platform, we’re always listening to network operators who depend on accurate performance data — especially those participating in government-funded broadband programs like RDOF, CAF, and BEAD. One of our customers asked us: "What if Admiral could run automated…