PPC is way better than MIPS as Butch said. I can't say what percentage but you'll see a good improvement. Might make sense to replace one busy site and give it a week.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Sep 29, 2011 9:25 AM, "Simon Westlake" <[email protected]> wrote: > I have about 40 450/493Gs deployed right now in an OSPF network.. ~500 > routes, ~80Mbps max throughput at the busiest point. > > Getting up to 50% on some of the routers - you have any comparison on > the RB1200s? I don't really want to replace something to gain another > 120MHz and have it shave off 5%.. but I don't know if the PPC processors > are more efficient. > > I'm tempted to just source a bunch of atom boxes but the RB800+expansion > looks like a potential winner.. I just wish the ports were all gig on > the expansion card. > > On 9/28/2011 9:30 PM, Jon Auer wrote: >> I've purchased a few RB1200s from Roc-Noc. They had a few left last >> time I looked. >> Right now I'm using them as Multilink DSL CPE (5x6Meg DSL) with your >> QoS script. Probably overkill but I like to keep the CPU usage down. >> >> On the other hand none of our RB1100s have failed yet either. Not that >> we have many of them in use. >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Butch Evans<[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would not >>> recommend the RB1100 and the RB1200 (a step down) is not available >>> everywhere, yet (not sure it's even in the US market, yet). >> _______________________________________________ >> Mikrotik mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >> >> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS > > -- > Simon Westlake > [email protected] > (920) 351-1010 > Powercode ISP Billing and Network Management [www.powercode.com] > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110929/48478a81/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
