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Does the MikroTik USB port work with an BELKIN F5D8053 v6?

Unfortunately, as of May 2026 and RouterOS 7.23, no. The BELKIN F5D8053 v6 is basically a Realtek RTL8191SU/RTL8192SU, which currently does not seem to be supported to act as a Wifi interface for RouterOS on ARM32.

External USB to ethernet adapter on MikroTik USB port – does that work?

Short: Yes, it does. But likely only with specific network chips. In my case, I tested with a small USB-C docking adapter, which I connected to my hAP ax S via USB-A to USB-C adapter as shown in the picture below. The chip is a Realtek RTL8153, which was immediately recognized by RouterOS and added [ ]

USB hub on MikroTik hAP ax S and other MikroTik devices to connect multiple storage or broadband devices?

Short: Yes, works. I tested a Dell D3100 docking station with a built-in active USB hub in conjuction with the USB port of the hAP ax S. The following things worked find out of the box: All cases worked flawlessly in both 7.20.x and the latest stable 7.22.x of MikroTik RouterOS. Important to note is, [ ]

ffmpeg for recording from v4l2

Every now and then some old VHS pops up after cleaning old storages, shelfes, workshops. And I am by far not a professional VHS digitizing service, but some VHS s are really worth preserving to me, so I have a cheap VHS player and a Hauppauge USB-Live2 analogue USB capture device. A very simple way to [ ]

Simulating 1024 bit dh params for sftp

Sometimes I work with very old IT server infrastructure, but this should not be the topic of today. We focus on the client side today, where it happens from time to time that companies and people from various fields, such as old client software based on Java 5, 6, 7, or 8, are bound to [ ]

rsync: File name too long (36) when moving data towards Synology NAS

Likely this is because your filenames are too long, over 255 bytes. However, if you have enabled encryption on your shares in Synology, that limit is lowered to 143 bytes, which is much easier to hit. Longer explanation eCryptfs, which Synology uses for encrypted shares, must keep encrypted filenames within the underlying filesystem’s 255-byte limit, [ ]