Thank you all for the recommendations. I will be passing them along to my friend.
This is the basic take-away that I've gleaned from your responses: To manage ~50Mbit/s uplink effectively: Mikrotik RB450G To manage ~75-100Mbit/s uplink effectively: Mikrotik RB439G For an uplink much faster than 100Mbit/s: Mikrotik RB110AH I am also telling him he should be able to continue using WinBox to manage his new router, and that he also should be able to copy/paste relevant bits of his current setup on the RB750GS to whatever new MT product. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Scott Lambert <lamb...@lambertfam.org>wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:44:45AM -0500, 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. > > If you are currently doing 100Mbps and expect to do more in the > near future, I would probably go straight to the $500 RB1100AHx2. > > If you think it will be a while before you actually fill the 100Mbps > pipe, it may be worthwile buying a $100 RB450G or $250 RB493G and > hoping the prices of the RB1xxx devices come down. > > The RB4xxG series may be able to handle the 100Mbps requirements > depending on how you setup your queue trees. But in my environment, > the RB493G CPU loading gets too high for comfort when we push in > the neighborhood of 75Mbps. We only use 50 - 60 MB of RAM. > > We have address-list based mangle rules feeding PCQ queue trees for > rate limiting individual customers. Fewer than 150 IPs in the > address-lists. > > -- > Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin > lamb...@lambertfam.org > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- Ben West http://gowasabi.net b...@gowasabi.net
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