Yep, don’t why I didn’t think of that.  The 3011 will fit the bill nicely

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colin Stanners
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 1:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] cost effective, mid-range performance Mikrotik router 
needed

RB3011. Fast, stable (once you upgrade past earlt factory firmware that had 
packet loss bug), $170.

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Paul McCall 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As we moved all out towers to Fiber / Power up the tower, we still have the 
router at the bottom (running a UBNT S16) at the tower top.  The only thing we 
really have at the bottom that plugs into the router (other than Fiber) is a 
SiteMonitor.   (Boy, I wish it had an SFP, but I digress.)

So, we use something like the CRSCRS125-24G-1S (because it was already there 
and has an SFP port)  or a RB2011 (same reason).  Both have a 600Mhz MIPS 74Kc 
V4.12.
I am looking to find something that has more power without jumping up to a $ 
380 CCR1009.  We have 25+ towers that fit into that scenario.  In each case, 
these towers never push for than 50 Mbit of BW but often go over 60% CPU.  The 
use Queues per connected customers (that it grabs from Radius) and very basic 
Firewall rules to restrict access on all the good ports to our internal office 
subnet.

But, we just need a bit more horsepower.  Was wondering if someone had any 
ideas?  Like maybe building some little cube box to run ROS, but not seeing a 
cost effective solution that has a fiber port and a copper port.  There is the 
Power Box pro with same CPU but 800Mhz, but not sure that would be the tipping 
point that we need long term.

Any suggestions>

Paul


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