It is the same as license Level 3 as per the features, but this one can be a access point to provide WLAN to users.

The router that I am using in this book has a license Level 4. LDF 5 is a CPE product which comes with license Level 3.Īnother one is SXTsq Lite 2 which also comes with license Level 3. The best is to show you some of MikroTik products that comes with license Level 3 from their website: They put a CPE product on the roof of the customer premise to have a Point-to-Point link on the wireless and go down via a UTP cable to the customer’s network. This is normally used by Wireless ISPs which distribute internet via wireless to their customers. You can see that it cannot be used for Wireless Access point. So back to Level 3, this is paid and normally it is for CPE WISP (CPE means Customer Equipment Premises). You may still see Level 2 license in old MikroTik products but very rarely because it has been almost a decade that Level 2 is not used anymore. But what about license Level 2? Well Level 2 was there long time ago but MikroTik removed it.

This level is also for free and normally used for Demo. For example, you can do only 1 PPPoE Tunnel, 1 Queue rule, etc.… To get that license level, you require to register to the MikroTik website. On this level, you can do most of the features but limited to 1 per feature. That means if you are new to MikroTik and you want to try it on a X86 machine for example, you can get that trial mode and you can use it fully for 24 hours. With this level you have all features enabled for only 24 hours and it is for free. For this, I have taken this table from MikroTik help website which shows all different license levels they have and what features are opened in every level:

Why is it important? Because it limits for you the features that you can do on your MikroTik product. Also, this allow you to upgrade your RouterOS forever whenever there is a new RouterOS version, and again, it is free of charge. And this license is a lifetime one, meaning that you do not require to renew your license every year like some other competitor brands of MikroTik do. The good thing about MikroTik product is that when you buy one Router or switch or CPE or whatever MikroTik product you buy, then it comes with a license. This is something you can see when you go to the following: We have seen from the previous LAB that my router has a license level 4.

Mikrotik license level 4