The good news is that Mikrotik has now stared penetrating the fixed line arena with their brand new RB750 router. The RB750 is a small five port ethernet router in a nice plastic case for a very special price, and yet – with all the power of RouterOS.

Even more it’s probably the most afordable MPLS capable router in South Africa at the moment. With it’s compact design and clean looks, it will fit perfectly into any SOHO environment. All this for only a mere R350 excl vat from Scoop Distribution.

With the indroduction of the cheap RB750 into the South African market Scoop Distribution has launched a competition where you can win one of 3 RB750′s aswell as subscriptions to SACM the South African Computer Magazine.

All you have to do to stand a chance to win one of tese prizes is to simply create a unique Router OS script that can be used with the RB750, scripts that are unique to the South African internet space will be favoured, this include scripts to split local and international traffic.

Get scripting.

If you are interested in buying the RB750 feel free to buy it from Scoop Distribution and just use the CTWUG account when buying to get it at the nice price of R350 excl vat.

If you have not joined a wug yet go check it out, there is local WUGs all around South Africa, Im an old timer on CTWUG been with them for almost 3 years now.

Motivational courtesy of Toady on CTWUG network.

Check out your local WUG site for more details:

• Cape Town Wireless User Group
• Johannesburg Area Wireless User Group
• Pretoria Wireless User Group
• Durban Wireless Community
• Potchefstroom Community Network
• Klerksdorp Wireless user Group
• Port Elizabeth Wireless user Group
• Kimberley Wireless user Group
• Louis Trichardt Wireless User Group
• Pretoria Wireless Project