Martin Hähnel

Looking At A New Router (MikroTik Chateau 5G)

We currently use a ZTE MC888 Pro 5G, that I bought for an enormous amount of money (more than 500€) from the internet provider[1], but it sadly has problems with dropping 5g connections and then refusing to reconnect. It often takes multiple router restarts. So I'm looking to replace this one with something better.

The current candidate is a MikroTik Chateau 5G model. Either an R16 (slightly older) or the ax. I like them because it lets me also try out some homelab stuff as it is beefy enough to run containers, which sounds cool.

Also here are two delightful videos about their chateau ranges:

  1. "It'll be easy and a safe choice", I thought... ↩︎