Hello Jim,
But there is no way that 8 802.11 cards in a single system is useful.
Four, perhaps, with a lot of work, and only if all but one of them runs in 5GHz.
But *8*? NFW.
Allot of people have written that they are interested in six -- it isn't much difference for us to make an eight port. NFW for you, but others need this. It does appear a bit extreme, but people said the same when we made the four port mpci to pci -- and they sell quite well.
The reduction in available power to each slot is also ... troubling.
What "power" are you talking about? PCI standards support this amount of power -- read the specs. The onboard power controller changes 5V to 3.3V -- and very efficiently.
Below are four cut and paste from the equipment-l and isp-wireless list -- just so you know that I am not making it up!
John www.mikrotik.com
-------------------------------------- Guess all we would need to do is mount a Micro-ATX 2ghz processor board at the top of the tower, and be done with all the extra radios now! Thank John!
Who else in the US aside from Eje carries your products please? Can you list all sources ?
JohnnyO
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John,
That is absolutely wonderful :-) but what do you suggest we use to power that puppy with? Do you have something with enough CPU horse power to push those 8 cards as I have started putting all my gear on the towers?
Thanks, Mac
John Tully wrote:
RouterBOARD 18 -- 8 port mPCI to PCI board (Extreme)
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I think it's great to see this out now... If you've got sectors and pass-through back-hauls, you've got 6. Then you've got a couple extra ports for redundant backhauls or extra capacity.
-------------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----------------------------------------
John, Can I trade in my unused 4 port version :)
To think I just recently bought a 4 port and needed 6.
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