Depending on required ports, the 4xxAH boards have a lot more memory and
CPU.
1xxx series is bigger.
Then there are the Intel based units from a variety of vendors.
We use Baltic Networks RouterMaxx at the border. Very satisfied. Butch
Evans, Steve Discher, LincTech and others have similar units.
On 9/5/2012 10:44 AM, Ben West wrote:
Hi All
Could someone recommend a Mikrotik product, ideally one of Router
Boards w/ enclosure, that would be effective for performing bandwidth
shaping of ~3 dozen clients sharing a single uplink with 100Mbit/s
download speed? I.e., what product are you using for this purpose now?
Ideally, the bandwidth shaping could enforce multiple profiles, e.g.
some clients get 10Mbit/s down, some get 3Mbit/s down. There would be
comparable shaping applied on clients' upload speeds, but the
correctly shaped download speeds are a higher priority. Also, it is
possible this uplink may be upgraded 200 or even 300Mbit/s, so it
would be cool if the MT product (which I presume would have 1Gbit/s
integrated LAN) could also handle an uplink of that speed too.
A friend of mine is presently trying to use an RB750GS for this
purpose, but he is finding that the bandwidth shaping becomes
ineffective for trying to ensure consistently shaped download speeds
above ~5Mbit/s (i.e all clients only seem to see single-digit Mbit/s,
regardless of which shaping profile is applied). My guess is that the
RB750 is simply exhausting its available RAM trying to maintain queues
for for the faster shaping profiles, causing them to effectively
saturate at a fixed upper limit, and that my friend could use one of
the beefier Router Boards with more RAM. But I'm unsure which product
would have adequate capacity and not be $$$ overkill.
(Also, I'm trying to discourage him from dropping lots of $$$ on a
Cisco product, when a cheaper Mikrotik product could presumably still
meet his needs.)
Thanks.
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