RB333 Wireless Cards??

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Dear MT;

  1. I would like to setup a wireless card on my new RB333. Is there a compatability list of MiniPC cards that work with the RB333.

  2. I have been looking at the WLM54 200mW 802.11b/g miniPCI card. Can it be used on my RB333 as an Access Point for laptop users?

  3. While looking at my Systems Resources I noticed at the bottom of the page that it lists 1 Bad Block… does this mean part of the Memory on my RB333 is bad? Should I get it replaced?

  4. I have setup webproxy and noticed that the cache is set to none. Is this becuse the RB333 64MB of ram will not handle any caching?

Thankyou for your patients with my very basic questions.

I love my new RB333, its very compact, fast and efficient.

Great JOB MT ^.^

Travis

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  1. See the Mikrotik Docs for a list of compatible cards.
  2. I would recommend the Ubiquiti XR2, SR2, or Mikrotik R52 or R52H cards. I have no experience with the WLM54 cards, but I’m very happy with the Ubiquiti and Mikrotik cards.
  3. That’s flash memory and it’s normal to have bad blocks. As flash gets rewritten, blocks can go bad and all flash has reserver memory to automatically replace the bad blocks. You are not loosing any space. If the bad blocks increases as a quick rate then you have a problem, but otherwise don’t worry about it.
  4. The RAM isn’t used for caching web content, the flash or disk space is. You should add flash or mag disk capacity if you want to cache stuff. The 64MB of RAM will limit you to a certain amount of flash/disk cache because RAM is used to track what’s on disk in the cache.

Hope that helps.

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Thankyou JJCinAZ for your reply.

What flash or mag do you recommend for Web Proxy Caching on a RB333?

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I don’t recommend web caching on an RB333, naming because you can’t add storage to it. The RB600 can take CF cards, but the RB600 hasn’t proven stable enough for production use in my opinion. This leaves you with a Intel or Via motherboard. The Jetway VIA motherboards, J7F2 series, are not too bad and you can get them with a 3-port ethernet daughterboard to get 4 ethernet ports on board. You could add a 2GB IDE flash or a little IDE hard drive for cache space.