I am pretty familiar with the routerboard/routerOS line of products. I work for a wireless ISP as a technician where we use various Mikrotik products for a municipal wi-fi system that we set up and maintain. I’ve grown to love how easy it is to use winbox to configure the RB products.
So, here is my question: Do you think I would get better file transfer speeds on my home LAN with a RB192 constantly moving large files between my laptop, an IBM R52 with Ubuntu 8.10, my soft-modded Xbox running XBMC, and my server, a Dell Poweredge4600 running Fedora10.
My current set-up is a Linksys WRT54Gv4, using Tomato Firmware, connected to a Linksys 5 port workgroup switch, all behind a Motorola VT1000 ATA (in bridge mode) and Canopy P9 5.7 SM with software version 9 (soon to be a P10 because the RF seems to be going bad on the P9). Anyway, I am getting awful slow samba transfer speeds- around 2-4 MB/s. (I have to use samba because my Xbox/XBMC can’t use NFS) That is fine for moving music and smaller files, but large ISO’s and video files take forever.
The other option I was considering was an RB450g, with a Cisco gigabit switch. I am much more familiar with the Mikrotik equipment, and even If I could boost my transfer speeds to what 10/100 ethernet can actually do, that would be OK, but I’m not sure what the actual max speeds of samba on a 100/full LAN are. Even using FTP between systems my maximum transfer speeds are only 10-11 MB/S. Either way, what kind of samba transfer speeds can I expect with the RB192 vs the RB450g? The laptop and server both have GigE, but the XBOX is 10/100. I don’t think I left out any important info, but if I did, let me know.
Thanks in advance
Esquared