I would imagine as with all technology, they were able to run it faster
with
less heat.
MT has a slew of new products coming (I believe 300, 600, 800, and 1000
series though I'm not 100% sure)
-----
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom DeReggi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "WISPA General List"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Routerboard 532 Speeds
>I do not have an opinion or data on the Ethernet to Ethernet
configuration
>you mention.
> But it is important that we define "both ways", expecially when
> dealing
> with Wireless cards.
>
> The max data we've been able to get out of a Mikrotik 532 AP, with
> 20Mhz
> channel 5.8G, connection tracking off, no type of compression
considered,
> is about 20mbps thoughput. That means 20mbps in the Ethernet and
> 20mbps
> out the wireless card or Vice versa. It Does NOT mean 20mbps Full
Duplex
> over the wireless.
> The big advantage that StarOS had over Mikrotik was the ability to run
on
> a 533Mhz board allowing Wireless speeds as high as 35-40mbps without
> compression on a single 20mhz channel. Mikrotik 266Mhz boards in my
> opinion are wasteful to Wifi, if using 20Mhz channels, because the
bottle
> neck is the CPU not the Wifi Card.
>
> With that said, I saw the press release on the Mikrotik 400Mhz 532
board,
> however, I have yet to see one sold any where.
> Are these available yet? Are they just 532 boards being overclocked?
> Are
> they stable?
>
> Tom DeReggi
> RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc
> IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Burgess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 5:38 PM
> Subject: [WISPA] Routerboard 532 Speeds
>
>
>>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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>> www.mikrotikconsulting.com
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