RB750UP questions/suggestions

well, RB411 with high power card can be easily fed. it is around 7 to 8 W and with 24V for RB433 with 2 high power cards choose as high as you can get PSU, that RB750UP works and you should be fine with two connected to the router. As Rb433 with 2 R52Hn uses around 14W

Also note that when card works in high rates it uses less power, so cutting down small rates (6Mbps, 9Mbps) can reduce the power consumption of the setup. (That is if clients still can associate with the AP without use of lower rates.

3 high power cards will be too much by any stretch of imagination using around 21W just cards alone. On the other hand board has Fast Ethernet ports (100Mps) why would you connect board with 3 802.11n cards to that anyway.

Oh and if you go with R52n cards, you can power quite a plethora of devices and configuration, just that board has 100Mbit interfaces.

Any idea when this will hit US distributors?

2.5 amp power supply.
2500 -500 approx. = 2000 mA
2000 / 500 = 4 ports

could the limit be only due to the power supply?

Can we use a USB wireless adapter in the USB port and turn this into an AP? Would an atheros based USB adapter work?

Meanwell make some pretty serious power supplies. A 24V 100W PSU will provide just less than 1A per port.

But what if you use a 150Ah or a 250Ah battery?

Or, if you have an installation like this with a 315Ah battery?
http://forum.mikrotik.com/download/file.php?id=7516

That could provide much more than 2A per port.

It only supplies what the device needs, not what the power supply can provide.

When will these ship to US distributors?

Baltic has them. I have 3 on the way. Titan Wireless has them too

You the man! I now have a bunch heading to me from Baltic.

Strange that Streakwave has no ETA.

It depends if there is a single 2amp power regulator providing power to the ports, or four independant 500ma power regulators providing individual power lines. If you look at the board itself, you should be able to follow the actual traces and see if they all go to the same place, and then see what that regulator is and look up the specs on it.

Perhaps there are no regulators…

There IS a regulator somewhere… even if it is just the main regulator providing power to the entire board. Someone with this board needs to follow the traces of the power pins of the ports and see where it goes… that will help determine the actual power limit.

load is measured, when that reaches certain value then power to the port is turned off (overload protection).

How much current can be used if we use ether1 for powering? I know 2.5A total through the DC power plug but what about using the poe of port 1? Is it the same?

Thanks

hi can any one tell me where to look for power consumption per port? i cannot find it anywhere

what do you mean power consumption? depends on what you connect there. max power that can be provided is 500mA. maximum voltage - same as RB750UP input voltage.

How can we monitor POE status? I saw nothing on winbox or CLI

so where i can see those values per port? i know that voltage is the same and max power is 500mA but how can i see how much is in curent use per port?

some of the features have not yet been implemented in RouterOS software.

only visual status is available at the moment (red LEDs indicating port has PoE on).