I bought a 153 Routerboard one month agoo and I had always problem.
It freezing 3 or more times each days.
One, two , three mini-PCI tested. No difference.
Last answer from Mikrotik was to upgrade to 2.9.35 version.
(14 days agoo they suggest to upgrade to 2.9.34)!
Anyway nothing change.
Sorry, just one thing change.Now with last OS version, routerboard reboot byself each half, 2 or 3 houres.
That’s the solution ???
I understand MK is trying to solve hardware and software problem, but I did expect more!
Thank you
Regards
Vincenzo
what are you doing with this RB153?? dont you think that info would help us help you?
With what you have given us here are my suggestions:
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Check the power cable
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check the wall socket
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plug in a lamp overnight and see if the power lasts through the night.
report back…
Hi
I did already everything about you seggest.
One month agoo…
Also I have remote contro by cellular phone to advice me about voltage interruption, ping interruption and reboot control by myself also.
The problem IS inside routerboard 153 for sure.
I think new board’s problem.
Thank you
regards
Vincenzo
Forget…
It’s not only my problem.
I sell other 4 routerboard to my customer and everyboady has thats problems.
Regards
Vincenzo
Nobody else has this kind of problem. See if your watchdog is enabled, if yes - turn it off. Then see what happens on console after it crashes. Maybe there is some message. Send it to support. Also make a supout.rif immediately after rebooting it, and send that file too.
I have the same problem with a RB532, I think it’s hardware problem. Others RB532 working fine from about 1 year in critical conditions (4 CM9 cards and very high traffic density) without problems.
I have purchased 10 x RB153 just some day ago and I haven’t tested it.
I think I’ll start tests today, I hope not have your same problems.
Which power supply are you using? And which miniPCI cards?
Have you tried RB without miniPCI cards?
Fammi sapere qualcosa, non vorrei che queste schede abbiano dei difetti di costruzione. La mia RB 532 ha sicuramente dei problemi perchè le altre mi vanno come treni.
Ciao Vincenzo
Paolo
We have problems with RB153 too. Tested 18V, 12V, 48V PoE power source, but it’s always freezing with 2.9.34 and older. All three board we have were replaced by RB532 and with the same configuration no problems now. So something is wrong with RB153, with 2.9.35 it reboot almost every hour. With 2 cards (tested R52, CM9, etc…) it’s better, but with 3 it’s really bad…
Hi,
here are some of my experience with RB153.
I bought 2x RB 153, 3x CM9, 1x CM10, 2x power supply 48V/30W, 2x passive PoE, some pigtails…
I staarted a testing on the table with CM9+CM10. RB was freezing every while. I put the CM10 away (maybe bad card). Fine - 2x CM9 is working well. (CM10 had a bit better throughput, but it is not important now).
My final configuration was:
bridge1 = eth1 + wlan1(2.4GHz AP) + wlan2(5GHz AP)
IP: 1 IP & default GW for brigde1, 1 IP for eth5 (for service access)
Filtering: (was turned off, then I turned it on for a protection)
chain: INPUT
in-interface: bridge1
dest.ports: 21,23,80
action: DROP
Wireless MAC access-list: 15-20 MACs in the list
Power: via passive PoE (10~15m UTP cable, APC SmartUPS)
Ok, let’s connect it to the network somewhere out (temperatures are 5-15 degrees of celsius) I am going to use it like good access-point radio (no heavy traffic).
RB153 was working very well, untill… omg it does not respond !
Router and some other device was responding so I made a trip to check what is going on with the RB. Serial console was dead, no wireless signal to catch, no ping via ethernet. LEDs was light up, everything seems like frozen device. Power off, power on, it’s up and running.
This happened once per two days but also twice per one day. By the time I changed wireless cars (no solution), RB153 board (still freezing), I put the PoE away and pluged the power supply directly to the RB (did not help). I also tried upgrading FW to the (at that time) last one 2.9.35. RB was not able to work without freezing. I do not know what is the cause of this, I didn’t find anything in log, only something in the serial console after reboot (“RB was not shut down correctly…”, not saying why). I had to throw it away. Since that day there is a RB112 and still running (7 days).
Back on the ‘table laboratory’ : After several hours of heavy traffic giong through RB153 and still working I gave up. As I acn see that more people has this problem, I’m not giong to spend days by testing RB153. If no solution appears in few days or weeks I will change it for RB112 or something else in the shop.
Can be the cause of the RB freezing the fact that I use it like a bridge not a router? I did not try to set it up like a router I need it transparent.
m.b.
did you have watchdog enabled? Also which Mini-PCI slots were used? If you are using one or two card you can try to check if it helps when you are not using J5 Mini-PCI slot.
I’m new user of RBs so I will probably not tell an exact settings. I remember there was enabled “Reboot after failure”, but pinging some IP was disabled (but RB was freezing not rebooting in my case). I used two mini-pci slots that are on the other side against the ethernet ports (not that one in the middle of RB). looking at RB ..it seems I used J2 and J5 slots. Because after a configuration RB remembers the MAC of mini-pci, you can put the card to any slot and it will still be “wlanX” = I did not pay much attention to slot numbers. I would expect “slot 1,2,3” but not " J1,2,5". It was for the first time I bought RB because I had to get some good working radio very quickly. As it is not some home network and I have paying customers connected to that access point I was not experimenting too much and changed the device for RB112.
Hi
Maybe MK people does not know exactly the world situation.
RB153 HAS A PROBLEM and as the MK will solve that problem, as people will restart to buy that board.
Watchdog is off.
Of course.
The 2.9.35 has inside internal and automatic watchdog.
That why board does not freeze more, but restart many times each day.
People, do not throw away card.
There is warranty an MK must solve the problem!
ps per Paolo: ti consiglio un’altra scheda.
La 112 sembra andare. Ne sto provando 5, ma, sai,…
Regards
Vincenzo
it is god that you have the latest RouterOS but have you upgraded the firmware to?? to the 2.5?
any change in these issues? I wanted to order 5 x 153s but I’m worried about the issues in this thread.. so please update if the problem has been resolved, or MT if you made some kind of change or plan on making a change.
thanks
im having 50 rb153 runing with no problem at all after upgrade och the os and firmware
Yes, after upgrade to 2.9.37 no problems now 
Thank you
2.9.38 + 2.6 and still a lot of problems. Interfaces hang up. I do not want to buy it anymore.
2.9.37 reboot 2-3 hours !!!
this is rb’s bug !!!
nobody can confirm this, make sure you have not got any other problems! contact support asap! you are probably simply out of memory
first upgrade, then see. 2.9.38 so far is very stabile, we have it on all our test systems and it runs great!
after upgrade to 2.9.38 still reboot every 2-3 hours …
firmware also 2.6
we have not received any supout.rif files to support! if you have troubles immediately contact support!