I run a small WISP - huge fan of Mikrotik routers. These work fantastically.
I decided to try out the RB260GSP switches and do some testing prior to deploying in the field.
The SFP modules would stop working (bug in 1.11) - this was fixed in 1.12. Seems like a MAJOR bug, but somehow made it into a production release.
I’m running pings from my desktop to the router and latency is 15-18ms, about 5% packet lost (pings not returned) and some come back “MISCOMPARE at offset 0 - time=32ms TTL=255”.
These kinds of glitches make me hesitate before putting into production - I don’t see these kinds of quality issues on the Routers. I’m also surprised that Winbox can’t be used - which is a superb app.
What are your thoughts about the maturity of these devices and overall stability? Ready for prime time/production?
260GSP(i have 3 units with different roles) runs without issues for me about 2 weeks.
Poe-out works fine, with vlans - no issues, SFP links automatically without any additional config.
They arrived with swos 1.12.
IMO these units are much beter than 260GS.
So answer to your question - sure these units ready for prime time
I have 30 RouterOS WAPs (wireless access points) in two warehouses. I just recently installed 6 RB260GSP switches in closets with POE to the WAPs. I set POE to “auto” and it powered up most of the WAPs, but would drop out sometimes. Some would indicate 4-7mA current draw and then they would show current too low and start power cycling. I know the WAPs draw more than 100mA and they had no issues when running from individual POE injectors. In fact, I disabled POE on the switch and reinstalled the individual POE injector and the power cycling stopped. I removed the individual POE injector and re-enabled POE on the switch to the “ON” state and it still power cycles randomly. I have a fiber distribution switch feeding the RB260GSP switches and the SFP interfaces work fine. I believe the current sensing circuit or software needs a little work still. Mikrotik is looking into it.
Edit: These switches are running SwitchOS Ver 1.13
Still having same problem with all six RB260GSP switches. Even though the POE mode is set to “ON” state, they still randomly drop out. Most of the time they power back up within a few seconds. Last weekend I had one drop out and not come back up. I logged in remotely and found the port status as “Overload”. I set the port to Off and then back to On with no help. Next I went to Auto which did not help. Then I rebooted the switch and that did not help. I left it in Auto and it powered up by itself about an hour later. When I came to work on Monday, I disabled POE and installed a POE injector between the switch and the access point and I have had no problems since. I have this problem on all the switches and all ports.
Haven’t heard from Mikrotik for 3 weeks. Hopefully they are working on it.
I have been using RouterOS access points for 8 years with no trouble on the individual POE injectors. This problem started when I installed the RB260GSP switches.
To troubleshoot this problem these are things that we need to know:
What power source you are using, is this 24V or 12V and how many amps it can supply?
How are you powering your RB260GSP (PoE-In or plug)? If PoE-In how long is the cable to the device?
How long are ethernet runs to the powered devices?
What devices you are trying to power up? What is their listed power consumption? What power consuption is reported by RB260GSP?
The power supply is the one that came with the switches, Model # WT2402500, 24V 2.5A
RB260GSP is not powered by POE. It is powered by supply mentioned above.
Ethernet runs are approximately 100-300’
Most devices are RB912UAG-2HPnD. Most power consumption is between 4-6 watts.
Sometimes they falsely show .16 watts. I know this is false because the access point is working fine with a strong RF signal.
ItsMe some problem here buy two 260GPS they or loosing power usually on port 1. Iswitch port 1 to on not auto its little help but today again lose power on port1 and need to off that on and power working again.
My switch have report maximal load per port 130mA and much worst because by default port 1 have higher poe priority plugin backbone link now loosing network every 12h and not have easy access to that switch. Before on some place have 750UP with some device never single problem.
This device have 2 week and before 2 days start loosing power, other device have 2 moths yesterday start losing power also on port3.
I start prepare network to switch to ac and gigabyte port seem to me must go back to 750UP that working.
Looking back at the event log in The Dude, it is usually port 2 that looses power on each switch, but not always. If I understand correctly, Port 2 should have the highest priority and should be the last port to loose power if the overall power consumption maximum has been reached.
Yes some problem I have on two 260GSP, port 2 also on my two RB260GSP, I write port 1 thing first POE port but on case and web it is port 2, some time on port 4 in my case lost power.
if you are interested in trying out possible fix for the issue please write to support@mikrotik.com referring to this post/thread/issue. We will give you access to test firmware for RB260GSP
I all ready receive from you 1.14beta2 Ticket#2014081466000195 I will test tomorrow morning and send you screen shoots. If you have new version send it I will tested.
I’m not sure if this is related, but I have a strange behavior on my 260GSP (FW 1.13).
Powering various devices like Unifi, NS5 and Aircam works flawless on auto settings.
Just my RB450G needs manual ON, not being detected by auto. After that it works ok.
I installed SwOS 1.14rc2 on three of the switches last Tuesday. One of the switches dropped port 2 and came back up within the first six hours. After that, there have been no problems. I will install 1.14 on the remaining switches and re-enable POE. Overall, 1.14rc2 seems to be a significant improvement in the past week of testing.
I spoke too soon. The same port that went down and came back up in the first six hours did it again yesterday evening. I upgraded the software on the remaining 3 switches to 1.14rc2 and rebooted. One port powered on and then the status read “low current” and it started power cycling again. I forced it to the ON mode and it has stayed up for over 6 hours now.
I also have two 260GSP updated to 1.14rc2 first one now have up time 8 days and 20 hours not losing power on port 2 also on port 4, second switch some up time but lost power on port 2 before 5 days, 3 days after update.
For now I satisfied with result before never have up time 8 days on port 2 also some time have problem also on port 4.
