As I said myself windows is suicide.. If you want an easy to use solution for bandwidth management I'd check out a used packeteer from ebay first.. We origionally bought 3 45meg packetshaper 4500's for our network "from ebay" and they worked very well for over 5 years, however our billing system now has integration with mikrotik router os so we use it now..
Ryan On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Forbes Mercy <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com>wrote: > Really Josh, you want me to rehash this? To be simple I'm not a true > geek, I barely speak linux and Router OS not at all. Our network of 700 > over 12 towers is bridged, a big no-no but I can't keep radios up long > enough to make us routed along with the growth sprut we've had this year (we > 're averaging 3 installs a day with one installer/field tech). We've found > that if you get over 50 on Mikrotik you start getting latency issues, four > of our towers have over that. When I was all Mikrotik (well 90% that 10% > Moto) it worked great for about a year and a half, then the packet storms > started, then radios started doing weird intermittent things like turning > off. Sure we did the obvious, change passwords, isolate the radios from the > rest of the network but it just started to get worse, probably traffic > driven from our ongoing growth that the greater demand for more bandwidth > (we are 90% residential so Netflix type stuff). > > To solve this we started replacing backhauls with Ubiquiti radios. > Ubiquiti allows more traffic so the added pressure really started to take > down the Mikrotik AP's, ports and bridges now drop with undiagnoisable (new > word) regularity. Then the bandwidth manager failed, Butch rebuilt it but > for some reason the upgrade to 4.11 made failures happen more often that > were like the AP's, dropped ports and bridges. We compensated by making a > path on the Ethernet side and in-network side so we could maybe ... (fix the > disabled port/bridge) from either end. We are spending all of our time > building redundant this and redundant that until we realized one thing, on > every outage Mikrotik's had cascading failures shutting down ports or > turning off radios (disabling) meanwhile Ubiquiti never went down, ever. > So we started pulling all Mikrotik backhauls, now we only lose AP's and the > bandwidth manager. Since the bandwidth manager takes the entire network > down we want replace it. Now you're up to speed on where we are, I call > Mikrotik my 'backwards momentum' mover, we have to stop our forward motion > on building and installing so we can restore service, it takes the fun out > of this business thats for sure. > > Forbes > > > On 10/14/2010 3:17 PM, Josh Luthman wrote: > > Hrm why doesn't Mikrotik work? > On Oct 14, 2010 6:15 PM, "Forbes Mercy" <forbes.me...@wabroadband.com> > wrote: > > In my mission to rid our network of Mikrotik I need to shop for a new > > bandwidth manager since mine likes to randomly drop one of the ports or > > bridge, and reset the route gateway (twice already this week). I'm > > looking for a more friendly windows type based unit, any suggestions. > > > > Thanks, > > Forbes > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > > > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Ryan Ghering Network Operations - Plains.Net Office: 970-848-0475 - Cell: 970-630-1879
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