The question is rather simple on the surface.. however the answer to
your question has a lot of 'IF's' in it...
(depends on what type of traffic shaping you want to use, and what else
the router is doing..)
However some General info...
If you look at the specs of each Mikrotik Router on
Routerboard.com below the specs they list out how much traffic can that
router handle, under different circumstances / configurations.
Use this as a guide to select the box you want to use.
In my opinion, 750 series would be below the low end for managing
100meg of traffic.
We love the 750xx series for Client Side
Deployments (CPE/Dmarc)
My personal Favorite for POP side deployment
is 493G (beefier CPE, more ports, Temp & Voltage monitor, more memory)
For the Core, you can look at the 1100AHx2
or even some of the Intel Based (RouterMaxx / PowerRouter ...etc.)
For the application you mention, I would start with at least a 493G...
and then move up to more powerful CPU/Router if needed.
BTW:, don't guess, measure and see what CPU utilization and Ram
utilization is on these when you are running the traffic tests. That is
the nice thing about Mikrotiks, you can measure and see all these
parameters realtime...
Regards
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
7266 SW 48 Street
Miami, Fl 33155
Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232
Helpdesk: 305 663 5518 option 2 Email: [email protected]
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.
--
Ben West
http://gowasabi.net
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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