Hi.

My current setup is a Intel Motherboard 1700MHZ CPU with 6 LAN ports doing PCC load ballance with 5x 4mb DSL lines.
I want to upgrade to 10 x 4mb DSL lines + 1 extra for https connections.
CPU runs between 11 and 38%

It will only run the nesesarry rules for PCC loadballancing.

Will the RB1100 do the job CPU and throughput wise ?
Or will it be better to use a PC bases system and a 16 PORT managed switch with VLAN's ?

I dont want to buy the RB1100 and it wont cope with the load and mangle rules.
And can the RB1100 be overclocked to 1333MHZ, is it advisable ?

Thanks for your time.

Hello.

Well working with 10x4mb connection would not be a problem to RB1100, i have a similar scenario with 8x20mb serving 100 users using RB1100 with it's original CPU rate 800Mhz and CPU load is not remarkable!

For over-clocking chk this Topic:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=48088

How ever. the good news is you dont have to switch to RB1100 to add the new 5 DSL Lines, you can just combined them with the same interfaces! where each WAN interface can serve 2 connection for example!

Cobine them it what way ? Bonding ?
The dsl's I have is Static IP's not pppoe connections.

No not bonding. all what you have to do is to add 2 IPs on each WAN interface!

in your current scenario you have 5 WAN interfaces each interface has one IP for one modem.

Now if you have a normal 16 port switch just connect all your 10 modems to it, and connect all your 5 ports to the same switch and add 2 Ips to each interface each ip will reach one of the modems.

if you dont want to use a switch just connect each 2 modems together "back 2 back" and connect one of then to your router as this:
Port 1 <----------->Modem1<----------->Modem6
Port 2 <----------->Modem2<----------->Modem7
Port 3 <----------->Modem3<----------->Modem8
Port 4 <----------->Modem4<----------->Modem9
Port 5 <----------->Modem5<----------->Modem10

I understand now.

Is it a good practice to have more than one IP per interface ?
And with the PCC balancing I normally select an interface, and not an IP.
So i will choose in and out interface.

As I understand from overclocking, basically it is not a recommended way, some people find it to work well.
As long as I know that the rb1100 can handle the PCC mangle rules I think it will be about 45 mangle rules.
and 10 x4mb traffic, then I will order the rb1100 and test.
I want to work out all my x86 system to get more space in the server room eventually.

having more than 1 IP per interface is so common on routers

how many users you have anyway ?

About 600 users on this specific router

you might need to upgrade your router memory then. the original configuration is 512MB. order it with 1.5Gb

if you plan to switch to RB1100 i will be glad to see your test results

My current x86 setup is a 1800Mhz CPU with 2gb memory, and it reads under system resources: Free memory 1842.2MiB
CPU runs at anything between 14%- 50% and 12MB on the lan interface.
With 600 Users and 5x 4mb lines.
I really hope the RB1100 CPU can Cope with the job. I really would like to move away from x86 hardware for space reasons...
I did allot of reading, and everyone says that the RB1100 Architecture will run better than a x86 based system ?

Theoretically yes. but x86 is not a bad choice ether. i have been using RouterOS on x86 for more than 10 years with no problems.

Mikrotik Rocks!