I wanted to post a message to make sure everyone understands a post that I
made a while back on the speed of the 532s.
First, I want to make sure that I say, that I CURRENTLY use Routerboard
532s
on ALL my towers. I use it as all of the APs on my wireless network, and
I
use MT for 99% of my consulting customers router needs. I think that
Mikrotik is a great product, heck, I even certified in the product, use
it
every day for WISP and network operations!
With that said, I had stated that the thoughput of a 532 is around 20-25
meg. I want to clarify that it is MY EXPERIENCE that a 532 running as a
CORE router, such as doing NAT, connection tracking, having simple
queues,
SFQ queueing, OSPF, ya name, it, the speed I have seen the processor at
that
point at 100% would be around 20meg BOTH WAYS, this does not account for
wireless cards, just ETHERNET to ETHERNET! So, on the 266mhz
processors,
about 20 meg both ways, and around 25 meg for the new 400mhz boards.
It
has NOTHING to do with wireless connectivity, just pure processing power
doing tones of tasks.
Now with that said, with two workstaitons 3 foot of ethernet between
them,
and a 532 Rev5 with the 400mhz processor, one way I can do a FTP Transfer
at
92 meg, and I see 2-3 meg going the other way. This is ONE connection,
not a bunch, this is STRIGHT routing, no OSPF, no NAT, with connection
tracking turned on. I also use TCP packets vs UDP, this 92meg/2meg would
be
very close to the limit of two 10/100 nics.
I just wanted to clarify this, as many of my customers have asked me what
is
a good limit to start looking at puttting in something a bit bigger as
they
have grown. My opinion, depends on what you are doing with the MT, but a
total thoughput of around 50meg is a good starting point, depending on
how
many features you are using on the MT, i.e. NAT, OSFP, etc.
Now, looking at that, if you are moving more than 20 meg both ways on
your
network, doing it using a $200 router sounds awsome to me! Not to
menton
all of the other features you have! I don't doubt, that if you put up a
wireless link and test with it, you can see much higher 50+ meg
thoughput,
depending on what the router is doing. In my case, we are looking at
customers that use their 532 as a "do everything" router.
If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, or if you have some real
world experience, with NOTHING on, or only a few things on, be sure to
post,
i'm sure that many users will enjoy reading your findings.
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Dennis Burgess, MCP, CCNA, A+, N+, Mikrotik Certified Consultant
www.mikrotikconsulting.com
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