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Dear Sam,

I’m agree with your opinion about the high price of MT power router with Level-4 Lic. I can make a X86 compatible PC with much higher configuration like: dule core 3.Ghz, 2 GB DDR2 200 GB SATA, with latest Intel MB, GB LAN cards, wireless LAN cards for AP and with a true power supply for the PC and offcourse with level-6 Lic. It’ll cost me for X86 box with all products I have mentioned = 600$ + 250$ (Level-6 Lic)= 850$ here in our country. And I know it’ll work better then anything (no offence). For reliability any electrical product can go down any time, nobody can say that their system is 100% stable cause nothing in this world is 100% stable.

Peace

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You still don’t get their point, that industrial grade hardware is more reliable than homemade. The CPU speed will look the same on paper, but in real life, professional hardware is more reliable.

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normis wrote:
You till don’t get their point, that industrial grade hardware is more reliable than homemade. The CPU speed will look the same on paper, but in real life, professional hardware is more reliable.

Dear Normis,

I’m sorry about that, I really didn’t use any industrial hardware for my server end (My own ISP). But I used some industrial hardware when I was doing a job in CARE BANGLADESH IT section. Those were good than homemade I must say. And the price of those hardwares were also expensive too :laughing:

Thanks

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There is a LCD on the front, with buttons, we are hoping that once v3 hits, we will have it fully working. Sorry for the late post, was workin hard!

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For enterprise system, the money was not the issue,
Service Level Agreement and QoS that matters the most.
But, for small-medium company system, usually they think more about cost reduction.

Either way, it proves to us that our Mikrotik can run for every type of company.
So, why bother arguing it? :slight_smile:

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good point!

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i would be really interested to know how the lcd functions with 2.9.x
I haven’t found the time to order Lcd modules to try them so if anybody have tried before can he please write a reply???

(sorry for being out of topic).

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i really cant understand wht can this INDUSTRIAL PC can improove ? can improve the QoS ? can fill the holes ? the core is the same .. RouterOs … the most important thing is the software and what can do and what can’t do , even if i buy a $1Milion PC , i cant run web-proxy with V3Rxx , couse it will hang-up 100% .. at the end nothing live forever , but if my INDUSTRIAL die i’ll loose 1000’s $ .. RouterOS doesnt need all these expensive hardware , in this forum you can see a friend who is working with 100 M/s and 100’s of users with P3 5XX Mhz … :smiley:

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That is one very nicely spec’d box.
We pay about $400 less for 1ghz similarly put together one.

Do you ship overseas? If so I’ll be in contact shortly :wink:

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for example the difference between ECC RAM and non ECC RAM is when your network is down because of a failed memory module :slight_smile: and there are similar differences for all hardware.

what’s the difference between a Porsche and a VW Golf? The engines are similar! :smiley:

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Yes we can ship to AU. Just let me know! my e-mail is dmburgess@linktechs.net ..

As far as industrial hardware. Think of this. If you buy a 29.99 power drill, if you use it every once in a while, it will work just fine. However, if you get a 199.99 commercial drill, you may be overkill for what you need, however, if you use it everyday, you may HATE that 29.99 drill, batteries don’t last long enough, don’t charge fast enough, not enough power, etc. Same difference here, the 199.99 drill, will get you the things you want, without having to worry about it. Just like what a RB500 is! Its a hardened platform for the software. Yes, if the software has issues, you will have issues regardless of the hardware, but 2.9 etc, and even v3 we have had great success! I have some 500 series unist up for months, heck had one up for over a year without an issue!

The industrial hardware is designed for constant usage over a long period of time, its electrically designed to fail less! I.e. Normal PC power supply, less than 10,000 hours of runtime is standard, yes some have went longer some do not. An Industrial one may be designed for 40,000 hours! 4 times as long. Does that mean it will fail sooner or later, not really, but electrically, it is designed not to fail for that time.

Many people use PCs, go for it, they do work. I’m not saying not to at all. I use 532s and sell them EVERY DAY, why, cause they WORK, WORK REALLY GOOD, for the usage that I need. I could not tell you how many customers of mine called me with failed mikrotiks, why, something stupid, power supply, hard drives, main boards, Ethernet ports! Ya name it.

La8er,