What is Mikrotik?
Mikrotik RouterOS is an Operating system (OS) which turns a normal x86 PC or Home PC to a dedicated router.It turn a regular PC to a bandwidth controller, Load balancer, Proxy Server, Bandwidth Shaper and much more…….It is used by many ISP’s and WISP’s.
About Mirkotik Company
Mikrotik is a Latvian Company which was formed in 1995,three years after my birth, to develop Routers and WISP System.Mikroitk is now providing Hardware and softwares to many countries across the world for Internet sharing. After getting a vast experience, Mikrotik introduced its own Operating System in 1997, two years after its formation, which provided extensive flexibility and controls for routing.
In 2002, Mikrotik introduced its own hardwares, at that time ROUTERBOARD Brand was born.Now mikrotik has countless Distributors across the world.
Some major distributors in Pakistan are:
Dreams Network and Technology (Pvt.) Ltd
ConnecTel
AGN Computers
Arham Compuetrs
Netbiz Communications (PVT.) Ltd
Mikrotech
It provides its services to many companies, some major companies are its clients:
HP
NASA
Motorola
Vodafon
Nokia
Siemens
British American Tobacco
Mitsubishi
Hardware Requirments:
Minimum Hardware requirments form mikrotik are:
Processor 850 Mhz
32 MB of RAM (2 GB Max suopported)
IDE, SATA, Flash Storage Meduims
Network cards supported by Linux Kernal v2.6
Supported Hardwares are
Switch Configuration Support features
you can download mikrotik os 5.18 from the following link which installed into pc and turn it into a router.
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