Networking guides

ميكروتك (MikroTik) شركة من لاتفيا تصنع أجهزة الراوتر والسويتش والمعدات اللاسلكية، والأهم من ذلك أنها تصنع نظام التشغيل الذي يعمل عليها جميعاً: RouterOS. هذا النظام هو السبب في أن جهاز ميكروتك بسعر بضع مئات من الدراهم يستطيع أداء عمل معدات الشركات التي تكلّف الآلاف. يشرح هذا الدليل ما هي ميكروتك، وكيف يعمل RouterOS، وماذا تعني

For most UAE homes and offices, the UniFi U7 Pro is the right Wi-Fi 7 access point: it adds the 6 GHz band, handles a busy floor comfortably and is priced in the middle of the range. Pick the U7 Lite for apartments and small offices on a budget, the U7 Pro Max for crowded

Choose a MikroTik hAP ax router if you want the most control and features for the money and someone on your side is comfortable with settings. Choose the UniFi Dream Router 7 if you want Wi-Fi 7, a polished phone app and an easy path to add more UniFi access points and cameras later. Both

For a 5 km wireless link in the UAE, the safe default is a pair of 5 GHz airMAX ac dishes with 25 to 27 dBi of gain, such as two Ubiquiti PowerBeam 5AC units, mounted with clear line of sight. A pair of 23 dBi LiteBeam 5AC Gen2 radios can also cover 5 km

UniFi Protect is Ubiquiti’s camera system: PoE cameras, a recorder, and the same UniFi app that already runs the WiFi. For villas, shops, warehouses and offices in Dubai it has become the natural upgrade from cheap DVR kits, because there are no monthly fees, footage stays on your own recorder, and the cameras sit on

A UniFi access point listed at 30 percent below every Dubai shop is almost never a bargain. It is usually grey market: genuine Ubiquiti hardware bought in another region and shipped in without the UAE distribution channel, warranty or regulatory approval. Sometimes it is not genuine at all. This guide shows you how to tell

Wireless internet service providers, camp and compound operators, and integrators connecting buildings across a site all need the same three things: a core router that can shape thousands of subscribers, radios that carry the traffic between towers and rooftops, and customer units on each roof. In the UAE that stack is almost always built from

Guests judge a hotel’s WiFi in the first five minutes, and in the UAE, where a hotel apartment might host a family of six streaming on eight devices, the old approach of one ISP router per floor simply collapses. Ubiquiti UniFi has become the default choice for hotels, hotel apartments and serviced residences across Dubai,

UAE villas are hard on WiFi: thick concrete and block walls, two or three floors, a majlis at one end and a garden or pool at the other, and a single ISP router sitting in a cupboard near the front door. Mesh WiFi fixes this by placing several access points that hand devices between each