the BW you get will also depend upon the type of traffic you are sending…more PPS the harder it is on the CPU…maybe you should look at RB 532 which you can run at 330mhz..
my experience is at an office we have a 532 connected to a t3 and we often see 30-35mbit of bandwidth tests and the employees messing around..but at this rate we are seeing 90-100% cpu usage. Granted we are doing some FW and nating rules, but no queues. all wired btw.
crap for 180$ we are IMPRESSED as usual!
I know the MT guys were pusing 70-80mbit through these things by elminating some of the packet processing.
We are trying to make a “national OM backbone” here in Italy. We need a lot of bandwidth from one link to another (the repeater will be one RB112 with two SR5, one in “station wds” mode and one in “ap bridge” mode, 60km one repeater from the other, and another RB112 with a SR2 for the hotspot). Which motherboard do you suggest me to make a good backbone (large bandwidth, but with only two radio miniPCI per repeater, NO dual nstreme)?
In Your case I would think in a PC instead of the RB112 or RB532.
The RB series are an excellent and almost perfect boards for supporting not more than 20 end-users, but is You need a high bandwith, You may use a P4 PC with at least 2Ghz and 512Mb of RAM.
If anybody does not agree, I accept, but for higher needs You need more-and-more power.
Ok, but our backbone will not have user, it is only a backbone, only PtP link.
I think we’ll buy a P4 2.0GHz, 512MB RAM for every repeater, with 3 PCI-miniPCI adapter and 2x SR5 and 1xSR2. I think that the power offered by those P4 will achieve the max bandwidth from those 3 miniPCI…right?
If you want to know how to get big Mbps with outdoor MT router, just summon a guy named Stephen Patrick, he really does know HOW to tweak motherboards for MT outdoor wireless
However, most likely he will sooner or later appear in this thread
Well, I never got asked to appear before …
But thank you anyway -
High speed MT-based outdoor-grade waterproof x86 router platforms are something we spent a lot of time perfecting - now well-established solutions with 1GHz AMD ‘NX’ CPU a preferred option.
Best to contact me off-forum, as this is MT’s support forum. stephen.patrick@cablefree.co.uk
why do you want such poor CPU for important link?
use Intel CPU with at least 2.4 or 2.8 Ghz with 256
or even 512 memory.
if you enable encryption with those routerboard
you will get much less than that. but our intel celeron
2.8 Ghz cpu won’t even reach 3% of usage at 30mb receive only
one more thing. NEVER USE AMD… its not stable at all.
