RB to replace PC-ROUTER

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
1

Hi,
I’m just wondering would it make anydifference if i replace ,my pc router to a RB (say RB532A) that does the following tasks? Shall i stay with pc?

My current PC Specs & the Jobdesc:
IBM P3 - 850Mhz
RAM 512Mbps
CF - 512MB
RB44

Router OS v. 2.9.46

Got 3 WAN, doing Load Balanced
Running BGP peers to one of the WAN
About 3000lines of address list
30-40 lines of filtering rules
6 mangle rules
Currently serving 140clients.

Current system resource>
uptime: 32m12s
version: “2.9.46”
free-memory: 477948kB
total-memory: 515720kB
cpu: “Pentium”
cpu-frequency: 847MHz
cpu-load: 7
free-hdd-space: 438597kB
total-hdd-space: 490996kB
write-sect-since-reboot: 40752
write-sect-total: 29779656

Thanks all for the input :smiley:

2

IMO you need to stick with x86 with that traffic. it might handle it, but is it good in the long run and allow you to grow.

3

RBs have only 64MB at the moment → You might run into problems with BGP.
RB500 is not as fast as your system.
R333 has Beta OS at the moment.

So better wait for RB10000 and ROS3.0 final to replace
your PC.

Stefan