Welcome to our 3rd installment of security best practices. Today we'll take a look at port knocking and service ports. If you missed part 1 and 2, you can find them here: Security best practices, part 1Security best practices, part…
Welcome to part 2 of our security best practices series. In this article we'll go over usernames and passwords and Virtual Private Networking. In case you missed part 1, find it here: Usernames and Passwords You’ve probably heard it a…
With all of the scrutiny that we’re seeing on security right now, we thought it would be a good idea to share some security principles, tips, and tricks that are best practices. Over the next few weeks, we’ll be talking…
Looking for a fun project to impress your fellow network nerds? How about creating Holiday Music on your MikroTik? Here's a demo of the end result. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jLqh_-SyQc4 Here is a getting started guide and code for a few songs. 1.…
This week we launched Firmware Manager, a premium feature that includes automated firmware updates. Update one router or all upon demand or scheduled during the next maintenance window. The Firmware Dashboard tracks current firmware version and history of automated firmware…
We listened to your feedback and have extended our software with RWB Backups Manager. With RWB Backups Manager enabled, our service takes once daily backups for all of your MikroTik hardware that has a subscription with RemoteWinBox. If you’ve ever…
Whether it’s for your home network, lab, or your customers’ home routers, rate limiting always comes in handy. Queues and queue trees can solve problems such as buffer bloat, maxing out monthly bandwidth cap, oversaturation of your network, etc. In…
We recently moved the allowed IP Address list to the Security page.This page displays the IP Address list that is tracked in our system to allow access to your MikroTiks listed in the dashboard.If you remove your IP at your…
We're excited to release the real time bandwidth widget - screenshot above. You can now easily see how much traffic is going through your routers interfaces. And if you've ever been frustrated that you couldn't change a router's nickname, worry…
RemoteWinBox users wanted to integrate M-Tik VG with deployments and asked us the best way to do so. If you want to use both WinBox and M-Tik VG on the same router, our system will treat that as two separate…
Our engineering and software team recently made infrastructure improvements to our software platform and server architecture.These improvements mean faster response time and improved uptime for our users.Improvements include: Resolved bottlenecks in the softwareImplemented health checks for securityOptimized queries for faster…
We’ve had a few questions recently regarding the security of RemoteWinbox and we thought we should make a blog post and FAQ to to help explain how we’ve approached security for our service and users. Firewalls for serversOnly ports that…
Recently a RemoteWinBox customer shared with us his experience of remotely managing a CHR with the help of the RemoteWinBox dashboard and configuration. Here are the details as shared by Aiden... Recently I spun up a CHR on a Proxmox…
Router information and bandwidth usage now available in the RemoteWinBox dashboard! For a quick update on the health and status of your routers, you can navigate to the router information page and view router details such as model and firmware…
Some of our customers have reported that they have had problems with WinBox not connecting. We discovered it was a problem with older versions of Winbox. Please make sure you are using the latest version of WinBox. Find the latest…