Is new on routerboard.com. CPU speed is wrong. Should be 600 instead of 400MHz.
Should give good short to mid-Range Links. Now waiting for the Dish for longer ranges
and some tweaks to make nv2 better than nstreme on these links.
Cheaper CPE-only version would be very interesting for us.
It’s quite affordable for a 23db CPE with GE.
There is SXT Lite, SXT HG, Sextant and QRT-5.
ste is right, for each category we have a product. For 5GHz (recommended retail price, lower at some distributors):
$59 = SXT Lite
$95 = SXT HG (Gigabit and Higher Gain)
$110 = SEXTANT (more gain)
$169 = QRT 5 (even more gain and power)
I do recognize that QRT-5 will probably be an excellent device with good antenna,
high throughput, powerful CPU, gigabit ether port and good build quality.
But, it has about 50% higher price than custom made CPE with RB911 + 23dBi single polarization antenna.
We need something like that (single polarization 23+ dBi antenna and 100mbps ether port would be perfectly fine)
to connect customers in low populated areas where distance can be more than 5 or 10km.
We will start buying QRT-5 ASAP for short-to-mid p2p links but at this price point it is simply too expensive (for us) as a plain CPE unit.
Take a look what U*** company has to offer for CPE market even at SXT Lite5 price point.
Our competitors use them and they’re doing just fine.
Instead of additional 50-100 QRT-5 units per month we’ll be buying maybe 10-20 of them and continue
to make those CPEs with 23dBi antennas.
That’s all.
Regards,
M.
Single pol Antennas are outdated. We replace them where possible. You should look at your calculation and take the available spectrum into account. A user with singlepol antenna use up to double the airtime.
Seriously, Mikrotik comes out with nice new products and all people do is complain, it’s sad! Everything Mikrotik has isn’t for my company but we are happy they continue to develop new products and we are happy to see the new ones. As Mikrotik covers such a broad range of customers.
That is, technically speaking, completely correct. Sadly, that comes at a much higher price.
Now, just take it easy, I’m not complaining about QRT-5 for what it is and how much it costs.
What I’m saying is it’s just an overkill to use it as CPE for domestic/home users at that price point
(please note that “cheap” may have slightly different meaning in Bosnia where we live and work and let’s say Germany or Sweden).
As I can see it, QRT-5 is an excellent (and probably the best) choice for ~100mbps p2p links in <10km range for 169$.
But “the other company” has a 27dBi CPE for 69$ with free shipping 
.
You really don’t have to put it on paper to calculate how much this is an advantage (in terms of money
and effective range of base stations) for our competitors at the start per user.
Actually, they are giving them away for free to their new costumers.
We could hardly afford that kind of practice with QRT-5. Believe me, this is a really big problem for us.
So, am I the only one around here who sees an empty place in Mikrotik product line?
Just one idea > Groove52HPn or RB911 “compactly combined” with some 23-27dBi antenna
and L3 license under 90-100$ price tag would be a game-changer for us.
Mikrotik guys, could you please reconsider this idea?
Regards,
M.
QRT has two chains and Gigabit, “other brand” is single chain 100Mbit. Not a fair comparison
Yes, correct again. But, again, that’s not the point.
If some other ISP can offer a similar or the same service at lower price
then one can easily imagine the end result as loss of market share for us.
For shorter range we’re using SXT Lite5 (which is a great piece of hardware at great price) but for longer range we
just don’t have anything to “fight” with that “inferior-27dBi-single-polarization-100mbps-69$ device”.
I simply don’t know how to put that fact to be more obvious
Regards,
M.
It is not similar at all. The added features add the price.
If you want, you can have the 50$ Groove added to a grid antenna http://routerboard.com/RBGroove52HPn and it will be comparable.
We don’t offer grid antennas now, so you must look in Distributor pages for prices.
You should do a calculation which contains scalability and installation/replacement cost. Putting a low end single chain device to the customer now increases the probability to replace it very soon. As said we consider this devices as trash and drop them to the bin. Buying and installing them is your problem not the price. CPE prices are so low compared to backhaul and service/installation cost that it is not worth to buy the cheapest cpe with lower functionality.
Got my first QRT-5. Suprised it is quite small for a 23db dual pol Antenna.
Our old Mars singlepol are the same size and have only 21db.
Our other 23db dual pol Antennas are 37x37cm.
Any special antenna magical sauce ?
More important is performance, have you tested!
Only on a non clean link to an omnitik. There it performes quite good for the conditions.
I’ll do some more links to see how it does.
The HW looks good. Mounts are stable the door fits and there is enough room for
the cable.
Can you post some photos if possible of the underside of unit, cable entry point and with Ethernet cable connected,
we always have to check for water ingress points with any outdoor device.
RB mount in the middle of a tragic To replace the RB need to dismantle each screw
Ground screw is screwed on from the inside is really imaginary patent.
It should be movable so as not to have to pull the front cover and unscrew it. Who invented it?
It should also be on sale with the cheapest version of the CPE RB911 L3 and 100mbit lan
3 Screws to remove the Antenna. Hang in new one and fasten 3 screws.
+1
ste, can you run p2p link test? I’m considering to use theese for ptp but affraid that it wont work properly with nv2 (like current p2p link, two sextants, nv2 and nstreme not working with both chains, only with one chain working not bad…)