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.
I'm sure most of these think they can run a six-sided sector setup. The self-interference will be huge.
NFW for you, but others need this.
No, they just don't understand why it doesn't work. Amusingly, Matt Peterson and Tim Pozar though they were going to use 3 cards per Soekris board, and 3 boards per cause while they built out their network.
Then they quietly admitted that it doesn't work like that.
And these were 11b cards with an I/F section, so the ACR (adjacent, not alternate) was like 41dB. The 11g/11a card specs are much, must worse.
> 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.
I'm sure you'll sell a lot of them to people who don't get it.
Lots of people run dual 11g cards in a single AP as well. They don't get it either. The comment about "extra capacity" is especially amusing. IALMAO.
There are a lot of stupid people in the world. Might as well take their money, right? I take my hat off to you for supplying what people want, but don't need. I'm sure you'll sell a lot of these.
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.
Sure, but each slot only gets 2.5W @ 3.3VDC, that makes for 750mA, if my math isn't wrong. Thats pushing it for an Atheros 5212 (or 5312) based card.
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!
I never thought you were making it up. But I think you've not been honest with your customers about what is possible, and what isn't.
Jim
John www.mikrotik.com
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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
>From: "John Tully" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------
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.
>From: "John Tully" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----------------------------------------
