Anyone have an RB333 running with three wireless cards as of yet? How is the performance? Any issues with router OS v3 and this config?
Not tried, but having 3 Atheros cards on top of each other, I’d suggest avoiding closely spaced channels, otherwise interference between them is more than likely.
Regards
Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of. I was hoping Mikrotik might have some input themselves as well from their testing.
there should not be any problems whith 3 R52s.
Wonder how three high power cards would work? R52h, SR2/5, XR2/5
Could the RB333 supply the power?
Three XR2’s would require about 13 watts and the RB333 can supply up to 19 watts of power so it shouldn’t be a problem. I’m getting ready to order a rb333 and 3 r52h’s for one location. If I have a problem I will be posting.
not that you can’t physically put more than 2 XR2/5 cards as they are too thick. But you can put 3 R52H cards.
R333 - 3xR52H - ROSrc4 - 17dBi Sectorized Omni Array with (3) 120° Sectorial Antennas
wlan1 - 2412 - Sector 1 - Client Access
wlan2 - 2437 - Sector 2 - Client Access
wlan3 - 2462 - Sector 3 - Client Access
Bridge = NODE1 with ports ether1/wlan1/wlan2/wlan3
ether1 feed from Motorola Canopy 5.8 SM back to main tower with MT 2.9.46 Hotspot DHCP server located in tower equipment room.
Have been testing for about 4 days, R333 seems to be stable so far with aprox 60 concurrent users.
Unit has locked up and became unresponsive 2 times and had to be power cycled, not sure if this was due to an issue with the R333 or with our setup.
Still testing and can post more results in a few days. Would be interested in also hearing about any issues from others.
Are you using Fan ? Could it be a temperature issue ?
Have not been using a fan, R333 has locked up 3 more times since my first post and had to be power cycled.
The unit is located in direct sun inside an 12x12x6 outdoor enclosure. I will install 2 fans to see if heat could be the issue.
i have some RB133s in very severe heat, outdoor enclosures, with 3 cards, running great.
many xr2 or sr9s
no crashes, no apparent heat issues…i dont think you should have heat issues on a 333, as its much bigger than 133.
maybe im just lucky.
Hi,
I have terminated the real environment performance test on the new RB333.
I would like show results for continuos improvement on wireless performance, for the nice guy from mikrotik.
The configuration is:
one rb333, 3 minipci R52, one ftp server, 3 clients.
Router os beta 3 rc 5
first result:
client connected to eth1
server connected to eth2
eth1 and eth2 bridged
Speed download from server 98 Mbit
second result:
client connected to Wlan1
server connected to eth2
bridge with eth2 and Wlan1
Speed download from server 21 Mbit
3° result: client1 connected to Wlan1 2.4 ghz
client2 connected to Wlan1 2.4 ghz
distance 3 meters
server connected to eth2
bridge with eth2 and Wlan1
Speed download from server 21 Mbit, client balanced 10/10 Mbit
4° result:
client1 connected to Wlan1
client2 connected to Wlan2
distance 3 meter
server connected to eth2
bridge with eth2 and Wlan1 and Wlan2
Speed download from server 21 Mbit, clients not balanced 3/17 Mbit
From the above results, seems that the RB333 has more powerfull processor(same ethernet test on RB532 results 50 Mbit).
It is still the problem that each Wlan has not 20 Mbit, but 20 Mbit are subdivited via the wireless interfaces, this important performance need for use rb333 to support 3 AP Wlan.
The worst condition, is that when is downloading from 2 different Wlan at same time Mk beta 3 does not support autobalance. in some case one client downloading at 200 kbit while the other client is downloading at 20 mbit.
Ciao
Massimo
The same test with route instead of bridge show 20 Mbit for each miniPCI, 5Ghz +2.4Ghz and also 2.4+2.4 a part that you have to use non overlapping channels.
ciao
RB333 + 2 X R52H + XR2
1st RH52 5.8G recieving internet from the main tower
2nd RH52 5.8G linked to other customer tower
XR2 for 2.4 normal clients
bridge1 = RH52 + XR2 + eth1
using power adapter + injector 24V / 0.8 A
many times power cycle is needed !!!
3x R52 never worked for me on RB532A (R5) …
dont know about 333
It may be that you need more amps on your power supply. 0.8A for 24V and 3 x high power cards could be on the edge. The standard power units only guarantee 80% of the rated power for continuous use – 100% is for peaks only.
its the highest amp i found for 24V wich is the highest voltage for POE for rb333..
They do exist. Probably a laptop ~20V power supply will do. MikroTik will offer a 30W 24V power supply in some month or two – same price as the 48V power supply.
John
I had the same issue with RB532 when bridging 3 Wireless interfaces.. it worked for a few hours and stopped…
Maybe we could enable the STP (or even RSTP ) on the bridge ?
dont you think that this could be a power related issue ? coz i remember that your quotation was you were using 18v power supplies, insted of passive poe, go for af.