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i did an OS upgrade and on rebooting the RB1100 keeps rebooting with a beep on reboot. How can this be sorted? am not even able to connect to it using the mac address using winbox

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Hi
Can you post the routing part and the src-nat part for comparison purposes, looks like it is taking a toll on the CPU of the RB750
i would really appreciate

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it is sorted it was an issue on the isp side

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that is what the ISP indicated and i had doubted that i had even interchanged but no result config from a running cisco router looked like below interface FastEthernet4.495 description UUNET Link WAN interface encapsulation dot1Q 495 ip address 10.2.24.5 255.255.255.252 ip nat outside ip virtual-rea...

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[admin@XTRANET_PASTOR-THUKU] > export compact # jan/02/1970 10:20:11 by RouterOS 6.4 # software id = BLI4-7KQQ # /interface bridge add name=loopback /interface ethernet set 0 name="Orange Wan" set 1 name=OrangeLan set 2 name=ether1-gateway set 3 name=ether2-local-master set 4 master-port=e...

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after activating the link my other link went down and the new route was preferred as opposed to the previous working route and shows gateway reachable. will not show arp as the network is through and E1 link. is there a reason it would show reachable thru the VLAN Interface onto which the Private IP...

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who can give reason for ping not being able to get through despite the route list showing Gateway for the private ip reachable.

Which ports should be put on the bridge interface?

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ISP has given me a Private IP for PTP(/30) and a Public IP /32 and VLAN ID. I have created a VLAN on the WAN interface and given it the Private PTP IP on the Mikrotik router. The Gateway is the ISP's Cisco Router 1) where should i put the /32 Public IP. on a cisco router this would have been a put o...

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HSPA+ i put it on the latest 5.15 but it is unknown (ZTE MF-192)

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dont use any of those protocols just use 802.11, you could get better link, i has worked for me before

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Jip. Omnitik is in rural town and SXT is farm house next to town. Was suppose to be a grid dish, but dew to a mix-up, the technician installed the SXT. When we discovered the fault and wanted to fix it, the user was quite happy and preferred to keep it that way. If i have a look in the logs, there ...

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Throw away the amplifter and buy couple of Dbii F50-PRO's ...

http://www.dbii.com/f50-PRO.html

Plug it to the RB433, use SXT or SEXANT for clients and you are ready to do some music

He says he wants to use 2 Ghz SXT and Sexant are 5 Ghz

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i wana configure Mikrotik as a AP . i have 30 clients & I m using 15dbi omni antenna with 1 watt external amplifier . Height of Antenna is 80 feet . Now tell me wht i do Amplifier? in which world are is that? remove it? which environment? do a scan and find free channel, use 20 unless you are r...

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I have a link 6 Km but can hardly Give me 10 Mbps, Has anybody a perfect link over 6Km with a clean 10 Mbps real throughput, considering the specs it should i have a 10 Km PTP Link with a pair of 14 dbi and 22dbm tx power radios giving me 20 Mbps, am i missing out on something. When we say 200 Mbits...

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I have 2 units RBSXTG-5HnD from the fist version that needed to drill two small wholes, and i cannot get more than 30mbits, maybe bad configuration or something, but the antena looks small for 4km. thanks It is not how small the antenna is but what is the Gain and transmit power of the radio using ...

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Got a SXT connecting at -82 db to a OmniTik that is 11km away.
No, do not know the throughput. Client needed 3 Mbs. Not a problem.

This must be rural environment, How reliable is this link? what is the uptime and in what kind of environment

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I'm pretty sure you need WDS (or station-bridge) to pass DHCP from one router THROUGH another like you are trying to do. But since you have an Apple AP it won't work. DHCP will pass through any bridge, that is how a bridge works. Apple AP doesn't matter, DHCP is DHCP. as cbrown says it matters whet...

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When can we expect support for new 3G Modems eg ZTE MF192 and others

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What did you want to achieve when you mived from ubnt to Mikrotik ? ie throughput, latency ??

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it will show the Mikrotik ip as that is what pushes traffic to the squid, it is the mikrotik that is making the request and not the computers

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5km over the sea, urban, suburban, desert etc You could have a perfect link in the desert and non in a dense urban city due to interference so real world varies. In some areas the N would work well but might not in some areas same for protocols like nstreme and Nv2 i have had cases where the Mikroti...

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what does your antenna support 1st before you go into trying 2080

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do a lab test with short cables , if persists reset to factory defaults and configure afresh

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not that some hardware do not like strong signal the thing is why shout when you can whisper and hear each other laymans language , it always hurts when one shouts into your ear

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the sxt now has a gigabit port sxt g , mind you all antennas would collect noise the aurgument is the larger the beamwidth the more noise you hear eg like in an omni etc as you say if you to you can always shield it and endpoint what do want to achieve with using the sxt as an ap for Sent from my ga...

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Just to add swimming in a swimming pool is different from swimming in the ocean (we have waves currents etc) so you best swimming pool techniques might not apply in the Ocean. So the tutorial should add an NB: This is a lab Test and in the real world tweak around with the frequency, protocols (Not a...

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this is a lab test, i realized this all depends on the environment the units are being installed, factors like Noise, adjust radios etc would have an adverse effect on performance/ throughput. I Got 300Mbps/300Mbps lab test but when installed in the field i could hardly get 10 Mbps though the tx/rx ...

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Please support with a reason why it is not recommended, it all depends on what one needs to achieve, why should i put a sector antenna when i have all cpe's within the beamwidth 25º of the sxt situated at the tower. Infact i would recommend this than a sector antenna which start with beam width of 6...

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it all depends on the traffic being generated by the clients, but in general they say 30 but things have changed to N, so could be more, but determinant is traffic being generated

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I have configured units on bridge mode as per the configs, the tx/rx rate shows between 200/270 Mbps both tx and rx , tx/rx signal about -50/-50 but when i copy a file from the remote site i will hardly get 10 Mbps, can somebody explain why this scenario, distance is 2 Km

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you can use it that way so long as all the other connecting cep's are within the beamwidth both vertical and horizontal

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what is the solution to this not the one for blacklisting mentioned below

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hi please show the configs on your units that give you that throughput and what is the distance between the units

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Which configuration would give the highest Capacity On the Sexant it should be similar to the RB-SXT i guess, i have tried all the possible configs using NV2, nstreme 802.11 but am not getting what i expect the link is 1.5 Km as attached and also the unit configs when i do a bandwidth test from i ge...

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What distance was the link?

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all the calculations are almost same i.e the fresnal zone is eaten up in all cases. to have a proper link you must increase the height

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you are talking of SXT what bandwidth do expect and latencies too. would go for a 19 dbi antenna on both ends

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omnitik + SXT in 1 Km you should get a link

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enable proxy use your proxy ip as the parent proxy should work

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guys the web proxy on mikrotik does wonders to does save me about 15% on bandwidth as it does cache too. depending on the traffic mikrotik should be able to work well. it will cache windows updates, and other common updates like ant viruses

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being a small wisp start up with mikrotik and mikrotik can do all that cisco will do

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no AP that can handle 1000 concurrent users. First that is crowded, You might need a mix of 5Ghz and 2 Ghz Radios on different sectors.

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simple raise the height of the antennas on either sides and make sure you have a CLOS not NLOS . The hardware should be able to give the link

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There are power routers by linktechs(Mikrotik OS) out there that do a great deal of cache than what you have stated and handle quite big networks we would say 300-500 concurrent users and more bandwidth

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pppoe or pptp?

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Small networks is arbitrary . What would define as a small/big network? ie how many users, what bandwidth etc

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I have my machine rebooting unexpectedly this happens when the CPU usage goes to 100% for reasons i do not understand it has worked well for over 8 months but has started this issue about 24 hours ago. What could be causing the increase in CPU usage as nothing has changed on my system

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when you say execellent for just you remote hotspot users what do you mean what of your local hotspot users? when something works and is perfect it should be all round. Maybe you meant you only use it for your remote hotspot users. otherwise your statement suggests that it is not good for your local...

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you are now getting it. example i need to monitor a cpe with an ip address 192.168.1.1 (client1) issued by the router then after a while the ip address changes to 192.168.1.4 if the dude had discovered the unit as 192.168.1.1 then it changes to 192.168.1.4 it will show the device (client1) as being ...

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this question is straight forward. ususally dude monitors the devices by ip address is i posible to use the mac address as opposed to the ip address. Look at it this way. When the ip address of the device changes you will not get the real uptime of that device due to change of ip address while the m...

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AP only as that is what brought the issues after the upgrade

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can dude monitor using mac address since i have clients/ devices that are on dhcp which need to be monitored

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i would not recommend dude on rb433 unless you are going to use it solely for the dude monitoring function, it uses resources

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generally a good signal is between -75 (bad) to -50 (good) you are right but there is the noise factor that is a major player. this can really bring down a link. you will find latencies going high to the extent that the link is not usable. i have seen links with signal strength of -50 but with high...

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Which should be the best signal strength acceptable for a cpe on 2.4 Ghz. (eg -55)? CCQ what %? ie the acceptable limits

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what is the charges to climb such a tower over 1700 ft, and how was it erected would like to see how it was erected to the top

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normis the video link has copyright claims

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will avail the same later after i reinstall the 5.0rc1 version again. i already did a downgrade to 4.10

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Which adjustments need to be made that we are not aware of? At least when an upgrade is developed notification should be placed, that after an upgrade the following need to be adjusted so that we make the adjustments after the upgrade. the logs am getting are disconnecting and connecting from the lo...

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i have had issues with the wireless interface on the above, my clients who keep disconnecting but when i downgraded to 4.10 it came back well. looks like a bug or something still has to be worked on.

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i would definately say yes

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I have 5 remote sites and would like to use the internet at the Head Office using 3G modems on RB411U. The Head Office has a Core 2 duo machine with a 3G modem connected with a Fibre Connection on the WAN Interface, I want this to be the gateway for the 5 Remote sites through the 3G Modem. I have a ...

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My ISP has given me static IP's on the 3G modems eg 172.23.1.30, 172.23.1.140, 172.23.7.145, 172.23.5.56 when these 3G modems are connected to the network from the LAptops i can they can ping each other. When i connected these to RB411U's they are not able to ping each other. i am only able to make ...

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sorry the Nanostations do not have the ANI in them

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i am using 5Mhz but it still the same issue. maybe i try use polarisation
George Midia

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Hi any who has the best way of at least overcoming interference on 2.4 using mikrotik as AP and nanostations as CPE. Any settings one has thought or tried that works best. The environment is very noisy (too many wifi equipment)

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something you are seriously missing out it works fine with mine. Most likely you are not getting an ip address from the server. please confirm

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please try configure MESH on these links it should be able to workout for you. in ring topology that is the only solution wds only would not might end with loop

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please post configs of the AP , Stations and the repeaters too. You are having 2 radios on the same board or one radio does both the repeating and as AP too. My advise if you can avoid WDS please do. Just do the PTP with one radio and AP with an alternate radio

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Did you manage to solve you case?

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use the Sata HDD for better read/write. if you are not going to store the files then you can better incraese the memory of your machine. i have web proxy with cache on the HDD and works perfect

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to manage it remotely you use winbox so long as you have the IP address (Public) or better explain your scenario

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you will need more routerboards , but it all depends on how the rooms are placed and which antennas you will use. but definately you will need some high gain antenna for a good reception in the rooms. The routerboards should be able to handle the authentication of only 12 rooms

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copied dude 3.6 onto the beta 5 Router Os and rebooted but Dude seems not to have installed. How do i know that it is installed i have worked with it in windows how does it work on the Router OS

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how did you manage to place the rb44Gv . I had to remove the cover of the Machine it was a lenovo and in the end only 3 ports are usuable

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there should be no problem which ever proxy you use. Just look at you hotspot configs

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problem is with your configs on the squid had similar issues but after maing changes in the squid it worked well

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where is your mikrotik box? and how is placed in relation to the squid server? what are the ips on the squid, mikroitik etc

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redirect all traffic on port 80 to port 3128 on your squid. use dst-nat. i also have squid and works well. But i have used squid and proxy on the mikrotik box. Not much of a difference . What is the amount of traffic going through the Mikrotik

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red rules in your hotspot are fine. why do you have both hotspot and webproxy running ?

remove the hotspot proxy

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I use radius manager. A perfect solution low cost, free installation on your linux box, best support i have seen around. My vote too

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same ssid different frequencies and bridge them up

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00:15:E9:00:95:6F is a nanostation (Ubiquiti) This does not appear in the leases as it was issued earlier after which i ip-bound it with the Ip that was issued. So once it has been bound to that IP in ip-binding you will not see it in the leases when the unit is rebooted as the Leases will only show...

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00:15:E9:00:95:6F is a nanostation (Ubiquiti) yes there is no duplicate listing but the fact that there are 2 units with the same IP address both issued by the same DHCP server on the mikrotik I made the 00:15:E9:00:95:6F static after it was issued by the DHCP Server on the Mikrotik of which i do no...

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the IP that is on the host list as 10.0.0.89 was assigned by the DHCP server then i made it static. But why would the DHCP server issue the same IP when in the Hotspot Host there is a machine/client with that IP address which itself it issued. Before the Dhcp server issues an ip address it checks if...

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please have a look at the file attached you will find that the ip address 10.0.0.89 has been issued to a client as per the ip/hotspot/host. then when you look at the ip/dhcp-server/leases the same ip has been issued to a different client too

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this should also work but the ip of the proxy is seen [admin@Backbone Router] /ip hotspot profile> pr Flags: * - default 0 * name="default" hotspot-address=0.0.0.0 dns-name="" html-directory=hotspot rate-limit="" http-proxy=0.0.0.0:0 smtp-server=0.0.0.0 login-by=mac,coo...

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try this eg Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 0 ;;; place hotspot rules here chain=unused-hs-chain action=passthrough 1 ;;; masquerade hotspot network chain=srcnat action=masquerade src-address=10.0.0.0/24 2 ;;; masquerade lan chain=srcnat action=masquerade src-address=192.168.0.0/24 3 ;...

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I have made this config to redirect traffic to my squid proxy is it right? as am not seeing much of a difference as when i configure the browser with the proxy configs Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 0 ;;; place hotspot rules here chain=unused-hs-chain action=passthrough 1 ;;; masquera...

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same has been raised in the forum will send the dhcp leases when the same happens

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please check this problem at times my clients have conflicting ips which have been issued by the mikrotik dhcp server and the clients end not browsing untill i reboot the mikrotik which is not good since at that time i have about 70 hotspot users and would not like to be interupted when i reboot the...

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am not seeing any Mikrotik routerboard with multiple proccessors coming out any earlier than the second quarter. The best option they have currently and quickest is to have the OS support multi core machines. And am sure that is the next step they will be taking

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1) do a bandwidth test using the feature on the routerboards
2) yes both can perform well so long as the there is a perfect line of sight and no interference what is the ccq readings

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Does anybody know how to findout whether he or she is going through a squid proxy. or how to test if a traffic from the Mikrotik router is really going through the Squid proxy

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almost similar dhcp server issues same ip to different clients thus one of them cannot browse thus looks like being blacklisted

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check the wiki it should guide you

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i realised this was not a blacklist. The Mikrotik was leasing same ip address to the clients thus rendering one of the users offline due to ip address conflict but once i rebooted the mikrotik then a new ip is issued to the conflicting Clients. there are instances where an IP of a client that has be...

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i have not measured throughput but am doing 2 links ptp 11 & 12 km with panel on the mikrotik side and grid using nanostation 5 on the remote side links very stable

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the panel antennas (20 dbi) with r52h should be able to handle 6.5 kilometers very well even more use a link calculator

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Version 4.5

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sorry, mistyped. I edited my post, 'src-address=!squid_ip' should also work for the first rule what did you mean by this. And you say that there is an adjustment to be done on the squid server. It is currently operational with parent proxy and when i manually input the proxy address on the proxy. A...

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What could be the reasons for high latencies when i ping the HotSpot Gateway( 2000-5000ms) and no timeouts. Then when i reboot the Router the Latencies then normalise to between 5ms-40 ms

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but the best way is still not NAT (redirect), but route all http traffic to squid machine and then use transparent proxy (TProxy) on it =)

how can i do this? please give example what to do on mikrotik and on the squid

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what is the length of the pigtail cable from the radio to the antenna?

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Chipuka/Fewi could you please explain how this could be put in place ie configs on the mikrotik

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fewi how would you apply this to be transparent ? using the squid server as the gateway to the Mikrotik ? i have used used squid as a parent proxy but not much difference as web proxy

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A week ago i had to purchase a core 2 duo machine, RB44GV just because Mikrotik did not have a multi-core Router board Mikrotik, The internet Traffic gets complex and is dynamic lets have more power. Multi core is the solution especially as Edge Routers for ISP's like me

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good i thought so. Incase of hotspot users. is better to have it as a parent proxy on the mikrotik or ask the users to have them manually have the browsers with the proxy server ip input.

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Which has a better performance of the two? I was contemplating on having squid proxy on a dedicated server and disable web proxy on Mikrotik. Anybody who has used or is using who would have noticed a difference please give your views

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Not what i expected. i would like to know why Mikrotik went back as opposed to enhancing the features on the RB1000.

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Anybody worked with this scenario as the card would not fit. Had to remove the Cover and was able to only use 3 Ports the other is covered.

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Finally out? Is this the RB1000 replacement?

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why did RB1000 have to reach EOL if it is a Good/Perfect Router OS product? Mikrotik???

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from the experiences indicated here i guess the Duo 2 core machine with RouterOS has an better performance than RB1000 but bit more costly. Mikrotik what is it that you are coming up with that would work better than than a duo 2 core or quad core system if any

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Very good comparision and could both be able to support the kind of load that am refering too which is 1000+ concurent hotspot users, Basic configs for hotspot or none at all on the Router OS.
thank you

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what is your opinion on using a duo 2 core or quad core machine as opposed to the RB1000? which would give a better performance.

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i realised the the issue here was that even if IP Binding was put on the some routers the same Router would issue the same IP addresses as those already bound to certain MAC addresses which means that the router was not recognising that the same IP had been bound to some MAc address and stil issued ...

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I am looking at having a router that can support 1000 hotspot users concurrently with a bandwidth of about 128/256 each. The router will be doing authentication and billing using a remote radius server, i have a squid proxy server, which of the routerboards can be able to handle this? And what of do...

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http://www.tiktube.com/index.php?video=95

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who has squid as a parent proxy working perfectly and enhancing the network peformance? i have installed one with a high spec machine (duo core, ram 1GB, HDD 160GB). which is better? having the clients configure the machines with proxy or having it as parent proxy on Mikrotik

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Why do you favour this as opposed to having the Hotspots at the Remote sites that is login at the perimeter as opposed to the Central office. which means it leaves the central office to handle the traffic to the remote hotspots while the Remote sites handle the logins. There could be lots of braoadc...

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1 GB Ram, 120+ HDD (sata) duo core

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will read it

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I was just answering fewi on regards to getting a consultant , I guess at times guys want hands on

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Hiring an expert is one of the solutions but I have my own WISP but the forum has made me be where i am now. Once somebody has the basic knowledge from the manual, wiki, and forum you can do your own isp. I only resort to Experts when i dont have the time to read and experiment and consult on The fo...

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How would one Manage bandwidth to Hotspot users so that one can have a quaranteed bandwidth but if There is more available bandwidth on the link then the user can get the bandiwidth that is available. eg the Hotspot has a bandwidth of 1024kb DL and the users are assigned 128kb DL , but should there ...

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I have this irregular behaviour where the Mikrotik HotSpot leases an Ip Address to the Client Cpe/unit but the client cannot be abble to browse not even open the Login page, But when i reboot the Router then the cleint is then able to Browse. It looks that it is the mac address that is blacklisted ....

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never had a problem connecting ubiquity cpe's to mikrotik AP's unless they are operating on proprietory mode eg mikrotik on nstreme

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these router boards have different specs depending on the traffic being passed through them some handle more capacity but will treat all traffic likewise depending on your configurations

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you could make record, take a leaf from the longest links that have been done (there is a 304km link in the forum)

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is the difficulty worth the extra cost in using lower loss cable lmr600 , lmr900 better work at having shorter cable even with the difficulty. only resort to that if it is imposible to use short cables

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scan and find if there is any other radio links in the area maybe interference. which equipment are you using on your links

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best practise is to have an antenna connected to a separate card. the RB433AH has theree mini pci slots for cards why not have an antenna connected to either of the slots. If it was the 411 then u have no option

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beamwidth of 5 degrees vertical and horizontal which is a bit tight when creating a link.

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Hi Guys i have a link of 50Km for point to point using 32.5 dbi grid antennas on both ends can anyone come with the best way to align the antennas. If anybody has long distance link says 30km and above how did you align your antennas

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Thank you, which link calculator did you use. And since you do not have the Maps there s a posibility of a Hill, Mountain In between the two points. In the link calculator you have input site A 311.68 meters and site B 262.47 meters the height of site A ( Cement Factory tower) is about 90 meters and...

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terrain Navigator does not have the maps for this area just like radio mobile does not have terrain maps for all locations

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Hi Guys
Anybody used this product to connect to Mikrotik AP? The usbs from alfa work perfect especially the AW036AH. please give your experience on the same. outdoor unit 400mW in built 14dbi antenna

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what is the throughput between the adsl modem and the router, for good speeds i guess the clients should get between -45 to -55 dbm . have you done a frequency scan it could be interference. which cpe's are you using? are you using an omni antenna or sectorial antenna. which radio cards are you usin...

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why dont you just use mac authentication at the AP level so that only Cpe's you have enabled the mac addresses will be able to connect to the AP's

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You need to enable mac authentication on the mikrotik, but it does show the ip address of the client and the mac address that has been used by the client

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make one radius server with maybe a secondary one . In hotspot senario you don't require wep encryption as it should be open for any body who wants to connect to do so for revenue collection otherwise it will not be a hotspot. once you put an encryption it is a closed system. authentication should b...

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Could anyone advise on the best network topology given that one is to use Mikrotik(rb433) as the APs, a X86 machine as the core(edge) router, urban setup area to be covered 16 square Kilometers eg is it to have the subscribers login at the AP (rb433) or create a bridge and have them login at the Edg...

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cookies? once the router reboots one has to log in again and and the cookie is only in one machine that logs in

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If there is one interface for the 2 groups on a hotspot interface how do you let the Monthly subscribers connect to the internet without having to login every time they connect to the Internet while the hotspot users login using usernames and passwords.

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ok i was to say without the ip binding too is it posible using the mac address?

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How can one allow internet connectivity for certain clients through the Hotspot Interface without login into the page?

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what am looking for here is performance. Booting applies to the other too, some X86 can be rack mounted which means small, cheap not really i can get a duo 2 Core at a cheaper price.
when you say huge speed advantages in many areas please be a bit specific so that i may get the areas.

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i dont think you need parabolic antennas patch panel antennas 21 dbi would work well rb133 and says r5h radios or r52 should work for such a short distance
George

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why three RB's i guess 2 would do if you need to have half the subscribers on one rb and the other half on the other. Just request your ISP for 2 public IP's and have one IP on either

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Apart from the 4 Giga ethernet Ports which is on the 1000 as opposed to say 2 Giga ethernet ports on a duo 2 core machine which one would out do the other. Can anybody give the advantages and disadvantage of each

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please find cordinates for the PTP Link which is the using R5H cards on RB433 which type of antenna would you recomend coordinates Site 1 ( 3°44'11.00"S 39°50'40.00"E) This is a New Tower 95 Meters from the Ground, Site 2 (4° 3'45.05"S 39°40'18.96"E) Is a building 80 meters. Can ...

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the rb433ah is a router meaning you dont need the linksys router, and it has the slots for mini pci cards for the wireless cards which means you dont need the linksys wireless, But you can elaborate your network so that better advise can be given on the same. what is the rb433ah supposed to do?

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the question here is not really failover but an intelligent load balancing where all the links are used simulteneously and the mikrotik takes the cost effective route/path in terms of latency to a particular site etc. we need to utilise all ISP's bandwidth at the same time

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Can anyboby confirm to me that mikrotik can do realtime load balancing like the in the Product below attached. This is a kind of solution am working on for and would be willing to recomend mikrotik if it is viable. Please advise on ealier experiences on the same

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this is very posible

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realised that it has to be in dynamic mesh mode. otherwise will not connect

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should mikrotik in wds mode and ap-bridge be in able to support wi fi clients. or only those units in wds mode only .

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what is the take on the above. forum discussions are automatically mailed to people who register for automatic notifications on any new topic. Atleast we are automatically posted on events instead of having to log

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what is the future of WISP with the increased bandwidth being offered by fibre optic cables as these can accomodated online TV etc. Or we wisp should concentrate on the rural/remote areas.

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which should we gIve priority?

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all the same depends on the distance you want cover. grid could give you long distance as opposed to panel. As grid mostly has high gain than panel ie 32 35 dbi, as opposed to 21,23 dbi on the panel antenna

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specs and real time performance is different. Guess this forum is all about experiences using the various products with Mikrotik OS.

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should work. when you say 10 km that means 5km radius?

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the specs are ok, are you having any issues or you intend to use the same?

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try create new queues had almost a similar issue but when i created news it started working

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I have noticed that some hotspot clients are blcaklisted with the OS at times . the Hotspot (DHCP server) will issue an IP to the client but will not allow traffic to pass through it from the MAC address untill i do a reboot of the OS. Has anybody realised/exprienced this?

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by the way why do you say XR5 and not R5H? after i have heard comments of good performance on the R5H

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would a grid antenna of 27 dbi work in place of the antennas, and if using the parabolic dishes what would be the gain of the antennas?

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90 degrees will have less interference due to a smaller beam width as opposed to the 120 degrees.And the 90 degrees will usually give you a longer distance coverage as opposed to 120 degrees. But it is all dependant on ones infrasttature. 4 sectors of 90 degrees will carry more cpe's as opposed to 3...

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they are not like an omni because they are different radios. they can transmit simultaneously. they can only be like an omni if you use the three antennas with one radio using a three way splitter.

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have the rb433AH do the PTP bridging . With the ADSL side have the routing done on a an RB1000 or RB600 as opposed to having the rb433AH handling the routing load balancing ptp at the same time. the client end can do the ptp and hotspot comfortably

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Not much information given for any good help. What is the coverage area? how many base stations are you going to have ? etc. i tend to think that with 5000 users some could be falling outside the 2.4 polluted area.. Try very much to use 2.4 where you can and leave the 5.8 for the backhauls. as sugge...

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that will be dependant on your area of coverage and if you are using 4 sectors then 90 degrees will do if using 3 sectors then 120 will do. But it all relies on the area you intend to cover.

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NS5 is a good CPE if working within a radius 3 Km. if you need to long distances then you can go for the PS5 which could work a distance of 5-7Km i dont recomend the use of external antennas on the nanos and/or the PS's. But always make sure you have a LOS and not compromising on the Fresnal Zone un...

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a 24dBi CalAmp grid (2.4Ghz) has the same signal as a 23dBi panel (5Ghz), this is your argument definately they cannot have the same signal unless i do not understand your statement

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not that there are challenges all need LOS the lower the frequency the higher the penetrating capabilities

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a 2.4 ghz antenna cannot be same as 5.8 ghz antenna, they operate on different frequecies

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what is the effect on either antenna or radio?

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Hi Guys
can any body give suggestion on the best mikrotik units to use for this kind of link. There is clear line of site. There is a PTP canopy doing that distance. Looking at pushing 10 Meg ob the backhaul
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5.8 is very stable, if you require a QOS better use mikrotik all through and make sure there is LOS, PS5 & NS5 could be an alternative.

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check this should be able to assist you http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/How_to_li ... Local_ones

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i guess he wants to have the public ips assigned to the cpe's so is asking how to assign/routing of the public ips to the cpe's

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the power could be the issue look at below logs almost all are power outages which could have resulted to the loss (44 messages not shown) jan/01/1970 00:00:36 system,error,critical router rebooted without proper shutdo w n, probably power outage jan/01/1970 00:00:40 system,error,critical router reb...

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this is true the key does not exist in the file menu. why could this happen and any idea on recitifying the situation?
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when i look at the license it still shows? unless there is another way of showing validity

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sorry this was not meant for this post. please close this post

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Where can we get the commands on how to change the ssid, modes etc using commands.

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when I configure the Rb133 the unit keeps reseting to factory defaults. this started after I did an upgrade then downgraded to 2.9.51 but same results

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what I want to correct is if u can ping the gaeway and somewhere along the line to the dst address the link is down ? thn traffic will still be passed thruogh the route I like the hotspot feature because on is not logged in untill the dst address is reachable

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there could be an issue with the DNS servers, so if a the rules are lookup gateway (ping) you will be able to ping the gateway but the dns servers are down that means traffic will still be routed through that route while in real sense there is no surfing going through that route. How could be this b...

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Guess it is now v3.17
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You want to extend your network do ptp between the AP's on 5ghz adn 2.4 ghz for supply the area. Star topology only use wds if you really have to
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i have a similar problem with my Core router PC which reboots almost every day once. It is really a problem for my hotpsot users as they are not able to loggin immdiatley as the radius server takes time before it recognises that that the users have been thrown offline thus they get the message you a...

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save to disk and have all clients on static IP's and bind the mac addresses to the ips's that will help, i have been graphing my external interface for over six months with the rampant power outages in my area without a problem and i also graphs usage of other hotspots with out an issue just bind ip...

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Dont not even attempt to do an upgrade. better operate the unit with its OS 2.9.X.X but not 3.X at all. It cannot handle this OS it is like having Vista on a P11 machine, it hardly works if it does work.
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I have configured a router board rb133 and the the settings go back to factory defaults when it reboots? what could be the reason for this
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i am to configure it on ap-wds to also do hotspot on the bridge interface. i have removed the unecessary packages. wanted to include dude but i guess that will not work well with it. Just order a 433ah as a replacement
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Just looked at the resources it shows 100% CPU usage. Will it run 3.17 without hickups as am planing on doing a downgrade to 2.9.51 or 3.13 any recomendation
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I upgraded a RB133 from 2.9.51 to 3.17 and it was a total mess. The unit is now behaving funny is hardly even accessible via any mode ie is very slow in response infact it reaches a point you cannot even ping it. any idea the reason for the above. could it be a memory issue.
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