N-Streme2 you mean.
---------- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Intel-based 4-port Fast Ethernet Card - StarOS > MT does BGP and Bandwitdh shaping. Much simpler to use compaired to > star, at least you get a graphic interface. N-Stream does the same > thing. > > Dennis Burgess > Mikrotik Certified Consultant > www.linktechs.net > > > > George Rogato wrote: >> Ok >> What about Butch? >> Butch can maybe better define the difference between MT and Star as a >> router considering Star V3 which has been out for a while now. I see >> Butch on the Star forums, so I'm assuming he knows both quite well. >> >> Star does BGP and bandwidth shaping, it's done bandwidth shaping for as >> long as I can remember, and I started using it before it was known as >> star-os. >> >> It also does duplex, not sure if it's true duplex, but stars duplex uses >> two radios, one to send and one to receive. Not sure how much of a >> difference it is between n stream. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> David E. Smith wrote: >> >>>> Not to be antagonistic, but rather to be better educated, let me ask >>>> you >>>> this. >>>> What does MT do that Star doesn't do in the routing arena? >>>> >>> In terms of "just" routing and basic firewalling, the two are fairly >>> comparable. I'm putting more and more Mikrotik RouterOS in my network >>> because of all the nifty extra stuff it does better than StarOS (or that >>> StarOS doesn't do, period). Keep in mind my shopping list is based >>> mainly >>> upon StarOS 2.x. >>> >>> * "Nstreme Dual," a proprietary extension that would be great for busy >>> backhauls (you put in two radio cards and have a full-duplex link, one >>> dedicated to transmit and one to receive at each side of the link) I've >>> never actually used this but it sure sounds nifty... >>> * the ability to act as both a client and a server for pretty much every >>> type of VPN out there (StarOS can do some of this, but it's limited by >>> comparison) >>> * BGP (this existed in StarOS 2.x, but was taken out of early 3.x >>> releases, I heard StarOS might be getting it back someday) and MPLS >>> * ridiculously extensive traffic shaping/queuing capability >>> * pretty GUI (this could be a plus or a minus, actually, as the SSH >>> interface to RouterOS is pretty blah while StarOS' console is quite >>> nice) >>> >>> Ultimately, though, I'd say this sort of thing is about 95% personal >>> preference. For many basic jobs, both of 'em will work just fine; might >>> as >>> well get the one with which you're more familiar. >>> >>> David Smith >>> MVN.net >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
