I stumbled upon this wireless card when I purchased two RB1000 from a company in California. They cost only around $20, so I’m little suspicious about the quality. Has anyone used this card, and what do you think about it?
http://www.engeniustech.com/datacom/products/details.aspx?id=223
Why don’t you head over to a general wireless forum. This is hardly a Mikrotik related question.
That being said, I’ve had mixed results with Engenius products. I tend to stick to Ubiquiti.
I would do that if I found them on Walmart and intended to use them with Windows in my desktop pc. Many MikroTik distributors sell this card, that is why I’m asking here.
just buy it and try it, or you are afraid on spending 20$?
It’s not that, shipping and handling cost 70-80 dollar, so one card cost me around $100. Shipping and handling for 20 cards are the same with United Parcel Service (Worldwide Expedited). I don’t want to buy 20 cards that are no good.
Very good card. I use 2 pc’s by 1.5 year.
Thank you staslabs for your input. How are you using theses cards? I’m going to use them for short-range wireless links, so I don’t think that I need professional radio cards. This is also a non-commercial project carried out entirely by volunteers and zero budget. Someone is going to pay for it, and that is probably me. With Mikrotik licenses, Radio Cards, Antennas, Motherboards, CPUs, DDR Modules, Solid State Devices, Cases and Power Supplies it will cost arount $20 000.
AP on PIII 700, Intel 815 Chipset, Intel 100 Pro network card, EnGenius EPI-3601S, 3.22 MT on 128 mb “disk on module”.
default power !!!
wireles package - not wireless-test!!!
AP WDS
12 dbi 180 degree sector antenna on 17 th floor — 7.5 km ---- 27 dbi parabolic greed antenna - dlink 550G card on 6 th floor wds client
-78 RX -69 TX signal strenght from AP
TX/RX CCQ 98/73 from AP
Hello.
In my opinion this card is not stable.
I bought two of them in October and it was very bad spending. I could have bought other wireless.
Go out and check something that mikrotik says it is supported. (not by looking on the chip type or name, “atheros AR52..”)
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Supported_Hardware#802.11a.2Fb.2Fg_wireless_cards
Did you tried these cards in another computer? Some of my cards is not stable in one computer, but rock solid in another one. The problem I had was only the combination of hardware, or in which slot I installed the card, not the OS itself.
I didnt try them on windows. i tried them on mikrotik routerOS