How many clients can I connect on a routerboard RB153 with 3xR52H (miniPCI).
Bandwidth should be some around 2Mbit (total).
Can I connect 30/50 clients per card? (or per routerboard)?
Euh - well - you’ll see that the CPU used is able to handle roughly 10.4MBit/s bandwidth …
Means - you can connect 5 Clients using 2MBit/s bandwidth at the same time …
If speed is the reason you bought the RB153 for- then it’s the wrong box.
Check this thread where I have made some tests … http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/transfer-speeds-on-rb153-through-wlan/19488/1
Thanks,
but 2Mbit is the total bandwidth to all clients on the radio, not 2Mbit per client.
My problem is that my RB153, with 35 clients connected (with peak’s of 40/50), without encryption, with PQC, only acting as a transparent bridge, without conntrack, no firewall rules, with 2Mbit max throughput, 20% CPU usage performs terrible link’s (ping’s are about 2/3ms, but suddenly 2000/5000ms), the CCQ is about 90%, the SNR of the clients are very good (CCQ also). I don’t know wath is wrong?
If this routerboard is not the ideal to my case, which one is? (30/50 clients per card, with total bandwith --all clients, not per client-- around 2Mbit)?
Just downloading a 4GB File - check the stats:
http://stargate.solsys.org/mod.php?mod=systat&op=list&host=2
CPU Load 100%, and barely over 10MBit … most of the time …
I don’t know what the reason for slow traffic is on your side.
Did you activate remote logging - maybe you’ll be able to see what the reason is.
But - some other questions: How many firewall rules are active, are you using traffic accounting ?
Are you using Dude for Monitoring ?
All of these do cost CPU Cycles …
accounting disabled
firewall, just one rule: forward/accept
connection tracking disabled
routerboard 153, current-firmware: 2.12, RouterOS: 3.6
disk usage: ~30M
main memory usage: ~12M
CPU utilization: ~15%
transparent bridge
cards AR5413: 3x ap-bridge, 2.4GHz-b, no WDS, radius auth (without encryption), no nstreme, 23dBm tx-power
35 clients, tx-rate: 1Mbit ~ 11Mbit, client’s signal: -50 ~ -85dBm, traffic: ~700Kbit per card, total bridge: 1.5Mbit
logs, just some info about extensive data loss, but client bridge offline, so this is OK?
remains the primary question: how many clients can I put in this box? (2Mbit total link)
I replaced an Proxim AP2000 with this routerboard, the AP2000 was serving the same clients without problems, what’s is wrong?
More info: most of the time everything functions well, but during the peaks of 2Mbit everything (clients) is with high time pings.
PS - sorry my terrible english.
Problem is with the number of clients not with bandwidth, number of clients is what saturates the capacity of the hardware. I do not use more than 30 clients per AP of that sort as yours.
Regards.
Faton
Configuration looks OK. As said - my next question would have been number of concurrent connections/clients…
The concurrent connections might be what is killing the performance on your device. But I can’t provide you details on the max number of usable client-connections. sorry.
Well, 35 clients e the routerboard hangs?
OK, if this is correct there is notingh to do, right? Just replace the box again. 
Is there an other routerboard model to my case? (30/50 clients per card, 2/3Mbit throughput without performance degradation).
If I put RouterOS in some good/power common hardware PC with the same wireless cards AR5413 will resolve my problem?
That should help - yes …
Faster CPU should definitly help.
I noticed that rb 153 works better with 2.9.x
We had one AP - 2 sectors about 20 clients per sector, after update to 3.x - traffic rates was ok, but it was almost impossible to winbox or telnet/ssh to this board. CPU load constantly was 100%.
I was using 2.9.51… Same problem. The unique difference are that 3.6 has some strange incompatibility with bridges ovislink (WL-5460), I have to upgrade the firmware of all bridges (not original firmware).
No one can tell me if there is a routerboard that work’s? And a x86 PC?
I will put the Proxim AP 2000 back again… I will try to mount a PC with RouterOS and 3xR52. If this work I tell you.
35 clients and the routerboard hangs…