Well, if you know where the problem is, what do you ask us to help you do?
Agreed that the unit should not be failing. How old is it… I know its an old model but when was it first put into production??
You can’t expect equipment to serve you for a decade, even less when you don’t pay a kidney for it. Upgrade once in a few years, they’re that cheap. Sheesh. McNetworkers.
@user4572
Thanks, compared to you I look like the Pope.
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If you’re frustrated it’s your problem, and offending here on the forum won’t help you get it off your back.
Announced on newsletter November 2012
Just 10 years and 1 month ago..
(probably on production some months before)
I still have dozen on production, and still works…
I removed the rude post.
Anyway, even if a device is old, it should not randomly slow down your traffic. Either it works or not. I think it should be config related.
But everyone was asking for configuration, which the topic author refuses to provide, so I can’t imagine how anyone can help.
After all these years since I opened the company on 2007, after buying more than 10,000 devices,
apart for some PSUs and the “plague of green capacitors” (solved by changing the capacitors in the RB411), onyl 2 will be broken…
The others have been slowly changed for generational change, but they would still go…
THANK YOU MIKROTIK!!!
In my experience, when something fails it is the power brick. And it can easily be replaced because these devices have a very wide voltage tolerance.
Usually when something becomes slower over time, there is something that is changing. E.g. the configuration, or the software version.
So the thing to do would be to go to a certain acceptable software version comparable to what you used in the past, load an old config or reset it to defaults, and measure if it really is the device that became slower, or if you just loaded too many tasks or too new software.
Concur on power brick being the common failure point, with far less devices, it has occurred more than once.
My point was to ask if the RB was recently used in production or not. A fresh unit sitting in a box unused should last for a long time.
An old unit bought second hand history unknown is a crapshoot for example.