After my WNR3500L failed just because it wanted to, without any warning, i decided to go higher.

I had enough of multiple restarts and so on.....but otherwise than this it was kind of OK.....because Tomato allowed me to do some QOS....i was kind of happy that i could do some online gaming and my GF could watch Youtube ect without interrupting me.....until the router would freeze....and die....i had enough.

I work for a computer company, and i do know how many WiFi routers we change, because they just ......burn....freeze...loose connection etc. Cheap $50 Piece of crap.

So i asked my fellow friend who works deep within WiFi networks

''What to do''

He replied, ''Get yourself a MikroTik''

He showed me 433, but i got 435G, just because i had money, and i know, sometimes i will spend 50$ on drinking, or go to a restaurant with my GF times 4 a month = $200

so MikroTik is not such an expensive afterall.....well invested money i would say..

My frined configured it for me via TeamViewer, i assembled it, after all i am not a total noob, just MikroTik noob.

It works like a charm, my friend will give me a tutorial on how to configure it so i will know more in the future on ''how to''

Only thing is....the case i bought looks like this:
http://www.cyberbajt.pl/produkt/4844/ob ... b435g.html

there is a space for a 50mm Fan, do i really need to put a fan in there ?

Does it gets hot ?

Should i change the stock radiators ?....i have some premium copper Zalman radiators.....that i could put in there.....

i know i know, some of you gonna say...what a noob, yes, i understand, but this device is like a baby for me now, i want it to have blue LED faan so it will look cool

any suggestions ? please fell free to post, even if the first 3 words will have to be ''noob noob noob''

I have seen many of these in a simple plastic boxes outside on a various temperatures without fan installed and so far (two years since I am with mikrotik) no problem with temperature been noticed.

However you can install that blue led fun just beause of the light.

you should not worry about temperatures at all even with default heatsinks.

And how to overclock it to 800MHz ?

Just done this:
[admin@MikroTik] > system routerboard settings print baud-rate: 115200 boot-delay: 2s enter-setup-on: any-key boot-device: nand-if-fail-then-ethernet cpu-frequency: 680MHz boot-protocol: bootp enable-jumper-reset: yes force-backup-booter: no silent-boot: no

[admin@MikroTik] > system routerboard settings set cpu-frequency=800 [admin@MikroTik] > system routerboard settings print baud-rate: 115200 boot-delay: 2s enter-setup-on: any-key boot-device: nand-if-fail-then-ethernet cpu-frequency: 800MHz boot-protocol: bootp enable-jumper-reset: yes force-backup-booter: no silent-boot: no

800MHz

why they do not make overclocking so easy on regular PC's ?

for overclock to take effect you need to reboot the router.

Yes i have restarted it just after that, works like a charm...

anyways, i noticed something, does QOS needs to be configured ?

on my old modem/router there was no QOS, when my girlfriend started to watch YouTube, i always experienced latency spikes like 150-300+ms

On this 435G without even configuring it, i have no lags is games no matter what i do, i can start downloading, my GF can watch YouTube, and my latency will go as far as to low ~80ms (normal ~50ms)

is this beauty have some basic QOS already pre-configured ?

anyways to the MikroTik Team - RESPECT !