Is there anyone using the RB500 as a CPE. And if so, what is the scoop? Good, Bad or what?
Slow, man 
Perhaps other guys are luckier, but to my best knowledge the first units are just shipping from Riga those days…
I am wondering how or why a cheaper board is going to be faster then the RB230.
I sure hope it is in fact faster, because, I have a RB230 on a tower that has 6 radios in it and if I run the simple queues on top of the routing it kills the bandwidth pretty bad.
If these new RB500s are faster I think I will remove the one RB230 and put up 3 RB500s. Each box will have 1 AP 2.4 GHz and 1 AP 5.x and 1 AP or ptp 5.x. this should help to keep down any internal radio interference.
IIRC, it only has 32 megs of fixed RAM, so this could become an issue.
Only BGP support for 100K plus routes will not be possible.
John
Is RB500 avaliable for ordering now ?
Are needed to waiting final release of 2.9 or may to use it now ?
yes, write to sales@mikrotik.com
Well, BGP from a single provider chews up a 128 stick or more. A couple upstreams and we’re looking at the greater portion of a 256 stick or more. All ISPs should be running BGP.
I haven’t had a chance to configure this myself yet, but based upon my training of other protocols, wouldn’t the BGP tables be injected into your local protocols (ie OSPF), therefore use up that 128 or 256 on every router?
It will depend on your configuration 
Usually, however, you should not inject BGP routing information into internal AS routers.
Then how would one do it? My experience is limited to CCNA training (RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, etc.) and was instructed to inject. There’s probably a Mikrotik How-TO somewhere I could look at.
Jober,
Even if you upgrade to the upcoming 564, the processor is still at a 200-400 MHz range and I’m not sure if that will help handle the load particularly if you have the authentication tied up to the same board with a bunch of radios on it. Could you tell me if you found a reasonable solution for your problem…?
Thanks.
you are referring to the RAM, I suppose?
we are operating a RB230 with a 4 NIC extension, several VLANS, static routing, shaping. We have 512 megs of RAM, but the load and the performance at about 10 mbit/s is not the best. We might split into several boards. will the new board with the 32 meg of RAM be enough for VLANS, routing and shaping?
cu.
To inform you guys , the routerboard 532 Works great,
im running AP mode on 5 Ghz with Nstream with Atheros 5213 card
the client will be upp and running tomorow
Some speed info :
The AP is delivery 30 Mbits TCP real speed to the client (FTP transfer)
Client is a routerboard 220 with 2.8.26 sw. and a Atheros 5211 card.
I will keep posting.
Rickard:
Are you using AP to Station mode with routing or WDS Bridging?
Im currently testing WDS bridging and I loose conectivity if I activate Nstream…
Gino
Gino:
Im using AP to station with routing. no WDS. its to slow
my network is based on routing to the clients.
my customers get a smal VB program loks like a Dlink interface :-).
and they can controll the Fierwall rules easy and the speed on the network is werry good.
The record we have had to one client is 3.6 Megs /s FTP transfer.
2 Km away from the base.