MikroTik – The Picky SysAdmin

Cooling a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+in

2026-04-272026-04-26 by Eric Schewe

Going to keep this one short. Purchased a Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+in to add a few 10GBe SPF+ ports to my office. Installed the following SFP+ modules in it: When I initially hooked everything up I did some temperature logging and found this little switch runs fairly warm and so do the SFP+ modules: Since I have … Read more

MikroTik CSS326 fan installation

2023-04-012022-08-14 by Eric Schewe

It was time to upgrade my networking equipment in my homelab. I needed two 24p 1GB switches with 10GB uplinks to facilitate moving my homelab into my crawl space and out of my office. As things are configured right now I’d easily saturate a 1GB uplink between the switches and since I don’t have any … Read more