That's some expensive roof rent if it's $15/mb...seeing as Cogent is <800/mth for 100mb on a month to month term.
Regards, Chuck On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:42 PM, rwf <[email protected]> wrote: > This is what we are doing, Rick- > > We decided to begin offering Metro Ethernet as well as wireless in our > market. > > The Metro E drop in our data center was only available as a fiber > connection. > The Internet connection is currently a 1 Gb Ethernet, so we needed > something > to mate them. > We were thinking about just using a media converter, but really wanted an > "Edge Router" here. > So I decided to try the MT and came across this fiber card. The MT is > loaded on a Dell SC1425 (I think that's what it is) > > Currently we have only one other drop on the Metro E, so we didn't need the > router part yet. > The drop is going to a City Hall in another town and feeds their Municipal > WiFi network (which we also installed and maintain). > > It is pretty awesome. The ping time from the router at the remote customer > to the Internet at our Data Center is 2 mS! > The speed test (to Speedtest.net) is 49 Mb/S each way. > > We can now offer high speed service (via fiber) to almost any address in > our > metro area. > > > I posted a different message about carving up a /24. > That doesn't have anything to do with this- it is another location where we > have 100 Mb Cogent fiber in a building and a Rocket Dish on the roof > sending > the bandwidth to our main tower far outside Cogent's service area. > It is nice to get that bandwidth out there, because with the roof rent and > the Cogent, it is still comes to only 15.00 per Mb. > > Now if we could only get a decent sales guy to sell it! Anyone need a job? > > Ralph > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RickG > Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2011 9:46 PM > To: Mikrotik discussions > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Fiber card for MT- REPORT OF THE OUTCOME > > Nice! What are you using this for? > > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 7:02 PM, rwf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This card was recognized by the server and ROS and now I have a > > Mikrotik router with a $150.00 fiber interface. > > It is working great. > > Someone should add it to the list of MT supported cards. > > > > Ralph > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of rwf > > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 3:45 PM > > To: 'Mikrotik discussions' > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: [Mikrotik] Fiber card for MT (this time with link) > > > > I need to terminate a new fiber upstream provider in a Dell server we > > are running MT on. > > This is the card I have selected, so far. > > Does anyone know for sure that this card will be recognized by ROS and > > work for what I need. > > I heard that ROS is a bit picky when it comes to this. > > > > http://tinyurl.com/4sgkstr > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Ralph > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > > RouterOS > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > > RouterOS > > > > > > -- > -RickG > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > < > http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20110305/0a52d9b8/ > attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20110305/c7e1e917/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
