What radios are installed in RB433ah

Hi. Is there any way of telling what radios I have installed in our rb433ah. I have 3 radios 2 of which report 2.4 and 5Ghz and one that reports just 5Ghz. Is it possible to tell via winbox or it a physical inspection needed? I believe the 5Ghz only radio has a lower power output than the other 2

/interface wireless print detail

Here you can see chip like “interface-type=Atheros AR5413” on which card is made. Based on it you can make an assumption what is the radio card. In this case it is R52.

wrong R52=AR5414 Check vendor by mac address

Take the wireless mac address and put it in this search

http://www.coffer.com/mac_find/

This will tell you the VENDOR. As stated above in terminal if you can look up the chipset and then deduce what card you have from that information.

-Brad

I agree with ronearwaker; there is no good way to tell what radio card is actually in routerboard.
Looking online for the mac will tell you the manufacturer, but since each manufacturer has different cards with probably different chipsets it still doesn’t tell you not which card you exactly have…

wireless print detail (or in winbox lookup parameters) also won’t tell you which card you exactly have. Several cards share same chipset. so now you have to look at what possible protocols it can work and at what power levels to than finally lookup which is the card that has these caracteristiks.

It would be nice if card could be identified (at least MT cards) what rb they actually are, like ROS can also tell you which routerboard you are running on. Would make life much easier, specially if you also still work with many older cards.

So, “/interface wireless print detail” should show something like: interface-type=R5H Chipset=Atheros AR5413

This way it would be easy to see which card is fit in a routerboard.

wrong? Maybe you have no real experience with routerboard? Please, purchase one with R52 to check it again and than post again ))))

http://www.routerboard.com/index.php?showProduct=68

R52 is AR5414

the driver is the same for all those chipsets, this line only shows the driver used.

So there is no possibility to determine chip exactly?

no, you need to check it visually, if you need exact info.

Normis, what about my suggestion: http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/what-radios-are-installed-in-rb433ah/46853/5

we would have made it, if it would be possible :slight_smile: we are looking into it, but it’s not so easy as with routerboard models

Would it be possible to get the power output of the installed radio? That plus the MAC would give a good clue to the radio type.