How I fell in love with MikroTik
Our first meeting A long time ago, in a galaxy (er, state) far, far away, I'd never heard of this thing called MikroTik. The year was 2007 and I was a Cisco certified network engineer poring over forums trying to…
MikroTik AX WiFi is a game changer
MikroTik's 6th generation WiFi routers are on the market and we're finally seeing them hit shelves and in stock. MikroTik has always been a rock star at routing protocols, stability and bang for the buck -- and now they're also…
Parental Controls. An Important New Feature in RemoteWinBox.
If you know any parents of school-aged kids, you probably have heard about their struggle with their kids over screen time. For most households, the pandemic changed the amount of time kids were allowed to access the internet. With remote-based school…
How RemoteWinBox & Team Cymru are Making the Internet a Safer and More Secure Place
What’s the problem? Cybercriminals will make use of every trick in the book to accomplish their goals. When the bad guys want to do bad things on computer networks, they have to send data over the network. Often times in…
Parental Controls Released – How to Get Started
Exciting news from the team here at RemoteWinBox - We have officially launched our Parental Controls on our Cloud platform End User View. You can now invite your subscribers to manage and control their home networks. They can add users,…
Coming Soon! RWB Parental Controls
Our team is very excited to announce a new feature coming to our End-User View dashboard - Parental Controls! Give your subscribers full control of their home network. Using Parental controls in the dashboard, end-users will be able to assign…
RWB Invisible Upgrades!
RemoteWinBox just got a HUGE update, but it all happened behind the scenes. What's new, you may be wondering? First, we upgraded and patched our infrastructure with security and performance upgrades. Boring, but necessary. Next, we moved from a 13U…
Discovered Issues and Workarounds on RouterOS 7.6
The Problem In the past week or so, we have received higher than usual number of support emails. Almost all of them were related to routers not establishing an SSTP connection to a RemoteWinBox server. After spending some time investigating…
5 Things You May Not Know About RemoteWinBox
1. Sorting, Filtering, and Searching Router Listing Our Router Listing page includes a lot of organization and sorting capabilities that may be unknown to some users. You can click on column titles to sort the rows in an instant, including…
Access your WAN GUI with RemoteWinBox
Hey guys, We had a recent question come in to ask us if a Mikrotik could be used to remotely gain access to a non Mikrotik device by using RemoteWinBox [RWB]. For example, could RWB provide access to a fiber…
New End-User App Launched
We recently gave our End-User App a makeover. End-User App has been an excellent tool for Providers to offer their customers. It gives them a view into their network that most internet providers don't offer and allows them to review…
MikroTik Tutorial Throw-back. How to Setup a CHR on AWS
How's this for a Throw-back Thursday? Today we share a video found in the MikroTik Users Meetings archives. This is our founder Marc demonstrating how to setup a CHR on AWS. It's a few years old, but we think it's…
Default Configuration Improvements and Requirements
The RemoteWinBox Engineering team has been working on improving the Auto-provision process that is currently in beta. Updates have made the process faster and more bullet-proof. At this time, the team has identified a couple of requirements for the default…
RemoteWinBox Releases Hierarchy View – Parent/Child Router Organization
This week we released to our BETA features, Hierarchy View! This feature allows users to organize their routers in a parent-child relationship. Users have a Root folder view, where they can add their parent routers. You can add routers from…
How to Build an OSPF Network
https://youtu.be/KBiDbWJco6s Network Architect, Marc Perea, walks through the first steps in building an OSPF Network. This is part one of the series, where we'll go over how to document your network before you start creating it. Subnetting Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecCuyq-Wprc Check…
RemoteWinBox Frequently Asked Questions
Our engineers wanted to answer some of the most frequently asked questions we receive at RemoteWinBox: Q: To prevent IP overlaps in our Mikrotik configs,what is the address range used for the Local addresses of the RemoteWinbox VPN’s?A: RFC1918 Addresses…
5 (more) Things You May Not Know About RemoteWinBox
1. How to Rediscover Routers Clicking the Rediscover Routers button queues up all the routers in your network for our discovery process. This will determine if there are any permission issues, what is the firmware, and if you have security…
5 Things You May Not Know About RemoteWinBox
Features you maybe haven't noticed on the RemoteWinBox Dashboard: 1. You can view when a router was last seen online If you roll over the “offline” symbol on the Router List page - you can view a tooltip that tells…
One small step for RemoteWinBox, one giant leap for WISP Installers
RemoteWinBox releases Phase 1 of Auto-Provisioning RemoteWinBox has released to our BETA features a solution to help WISP installers cut down on time in the customer’s home. Auto-Provisioning helps WISPs, MSP, and other service providers to save time while setting…
RemoteWinBox playing Favorites
Yep, that's right. We have favorite routers! Now our users can, too. We've added a new feature that allows users to add a "favorite" router to their dashboard. Your favorite router's upload and download, by ether, will now be displayed…