The CPU and RAM are identical on the 450G and 493G, the difference is the 493 has more eth ports and mini-pci. I don't think there would be any performance difference in regards to bandwidth shaping.
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Ben West <b...@gowasabi.net> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > Wireless@wispa.org > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list Wireless@wispa.org http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
