I just moved back to an area where comcast/xfinity offer gigabit. I have it setup and tested directly connected to the modem and get almost a full gigabit. However my old RB951G can’t handle it. I can’t even get the same 300mbs throughput i was getting from my last ISP. CPU load is through the roof and I don’t have much going on in the router. So now its time to upgrade.
Whats the best current model home type routerboard that will handle the speed? I’ll only have 1-2 clients on wired and a few on wifi (wifi speed doesn’t matter at all). I was looking at the RB962UiGS but it looks like most people can’t get a gigabit through that thing either.
I have Comcast / Xfinity Gigabit tier and I recently switch over from Ubiquiti EdgeRouters to the RB450Gx4. It easily saturates the connection. Based on the test it can handle a few rules as well. It’s essentially a hAP ac2 but with more storage and more RAM instead of wireless. You can find fully built up kits or get individual parts. I don’t have much experience with MT so I don’t have a complex setup and can’t speak to performance when you start adding rules and QoS.
In all seriousness I’d get hAP ac² over RB4011. Imho more versatile at waaay lower price. 4011 is not representative mikrotik as it’s really targeted, single purpose device. You won’t even connect 3g/lte modem to it. Nor use much of hardware switch. hAP ac² is really nice device with great switch chip, usb, dual concurrent and decent performance if you want gigabit.
If you really want to try 10G or need more ports then yeah I guess RB4011 or CCR1009-PC make sense. But keep in mind that they (realistically) don’t have switch chip
There’s as slight bug in switch chip in IPQ4xxx which bit me and MT doesn’t have a solution (yet). It also runs hot and my personal experience is that it might freeze due to that (vertical position seems to help).
I’m interested as well. I’m using switch chip in ac² quite actively (vlans for loopback for in-line packet processing by IPS and jumbo 9k support. A bit similar to this http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/loopback-nat-is-performed-only-once/121914/1 just instead of second router IPS appliance. Lack of switch chip is deal breaker in L2 loopback scenario).
I never experienced thermal issues tbh. But you could always try downclocking a bit. hAP ac allows that (unlike CRS3xx switches for example duh)
A slightly complicated scenario: xDSL connection with modem in bridge mode. VLANs all over, so modem connected to hybrid port (untagged, which is used for PPPoE, gets tagged to e.g VLAN ID = 2 on ingress, tagged VLAN, which is used to carry IPTV multicasts, remains tagged), ether port member of common bridge, vlan interface with vlan id=2 created on top of bridge, pppoe client on top of vlan device.
Result: ppoe client never connects.
Answer from MT:
… we are working on a fix though, but we are not sure when will a fix be available. This is only specific to devices using the IPQ4000 CPU.
The problem is that PPPoE discovery stage packets don’t get tagged as soon as they are sent to the VLAN interface, it is only this very specific packet (EtherType=0x8863).
Sadly there is no workaround for this issue for now other than using bridge VLAN filtering instead.
Proposed workaround solves the issue however it means no HW offload.
I’m not really sure if the wording of MT is correct. It seems to imply that the problem lies in tagging of packets on vlan interface (the SW one). My workaround is to use another VLAN switch to host the hybrid port for connection towards xDSL modem and get VLAN with ID 2 to hAP ac2 device via trunk. As my workaround works it indicates that the problem problem lies in untagging of particular packets on egress from IPQ4xxx switch (which is the step my workaround … works around).
I’m not sure about this issue yet. It happened twice in less than 24 hours, everytime during heaviest use (not bps-wise, but number of connections-wise). It stopped passing traffic, I could not connect to it neither via ssh, webfig nor winbox. The only cure was to remove power. Nothing in logs afterwards (no surprise here). While it happened, it was in horizontal position and it did feel quite hot (probably 50+ deg C) on the bottom side. After it happened the second time, I turned it to vertical position and didn’t freeze ever after (it’s been 4 days since). It feels cooler on all sides as well.
I know it won’t be suitable for everyone but in devices without serial I always leave eth5 as management port and set up watchdog to ip of that management port. This way it seems to have less false positives caused by simple overload.
Apart from the PPPoE/VLAN bug I’ve had another issue with my RBD52G: stability. Being desparate I switched over from HW-based VLAN setup to the new bridge vlan-filtering setup. Which bypasses the PPPoE/VLAN bug … probably also fixed the stability issue (one fellow forum member reported ether ports locking while abusing switch chip with different setup).
My tests showed that RBD52G is perfectly capable of wire-speed “switching” and the switch-chip–CPU interconnect at 2Gbps is enough that device wouldn’t choke under higher loads …
Why revive a thread after 4 years as a first post ? And your understanding is mostly misleading and wrong. The current options in 2023 are the hAP ax2, hAP ax3 or RB5009 with an AP.
I have Comcast Gigabit Pro and my setup is this…
Arris S33 Modem connected @ 2.5Gb through a S+RJ10 SFP+, plugged into a RB4011. I also have two CAP AC AP’s powered by two RBGPOE power injectors. The setup runs without issues, and I even have IPV6 working as well with Comcast.
I have two wired Ethernet lines run from the RB4011 too two RB260GS switches connected through S-RJ01 SFP’s.
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