rb44 so expensive or so special?

RouterOS General
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hi guys
I was trying to figure out why RB44 is around 90 bucks where I can get single port ethernet for five bucks?

then I found this:

http://underbid.com/cgi-bin/underbid/underbid.cgi?action=display&item=1055481920


for about one tenth of the same price? why this one is so cheap and mikotik is so expensive? mt is using realtek chipset ? right?

thanks

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not sure on the RB44, but I’m not too impressed… I can only get one to work in any given system, as soon as I put a 2nd in, it won’t even boot. same thing for having any other NIC in the system. i can put in all the 3com, broadcom, or intel nic’s I want, but only 1 rb44, and then nothing else, the computer boots, but MikroTik ROS locks up at the screen where you should be able to login at, I’ve tested this with a few systems, same thing on every one of them.

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The rb44 is essentially 4 network cards on one pci board, so it will show up as 4 ether ports. That thing you found for 14 dollers is just as it says…a network card with a switch, so it will show up as 1 ether port.

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Have you bothered reading the specs for these? Take a look at both of them, they are very different. You get what you pay for…

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ehem,… of course I did read the specs if you can call that little text an spec…

but I wasn’t sure if it is four independent port or single or double port…

however what I’m saying is for isntance Routerboard 532 has 3 port already, right? why does it have to be close to this RB44 which is only 4 etherchipset that its price is not more than 5bucks? combining that may 50 bucks but 100? pffff

anyway becuase I wasn’t sure that it is four independent port I just bought my rb44 to do my work ASAPa

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I have two of those Asound cards. I used them in a Pentium 166 running NetBSD for my home router one time. I currently use an RB532 with RouterOS. :slight_smile:

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and are they separate ports like RB44? or will be detected as one or two ports?

thanks

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On the OS, it sees it as one card. Then you can plug any device into any of the four ports, like its a switch.

In other words, think of it as a five port switch, with one of the five ports being hidden, because it’s wired up to the network chip.. if that makes more sense. Kind of a weird device, but kind of cool.

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it’s cool in some platform but right now I need 4 independent port because the mainboard doesn’t have more space for more port and I don’t want second box at this time.

thanks alot, it was helpful