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1000 hotspot concurrent user Routerboard Capacity

Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:53 pm

I am looking at having a router that can support 1000 hotspot users concurrently with a bandwidth of about 128/256 each. The router will be doing authentication and billing using a remote radius server, i have a squid proxy server, which of the routerboards can be able to handle this? And what of doing a mikroitk router using a duo2core or quad core machine? opinions?
 
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Re: 1000 hotspot concurrent user Routerboard Capacity

Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:35 pm

The RB1000 should be able to do this. Some suppliers still have stock, others don't. Rumor has it the successor (most likely more powerful) will be announced at the Poland MUM in March.
 
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Re: 1000 hotspot concurrent user Routerboard Capacity

Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:55 pm

what is your opinion on using a duo 2 core or quad core machine as opposed to the RB1000? which would give a better performance.
 
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Re: 1000 hotspot concurrent user Routerboard Capacity

Fri Feb 12, 2010 7:28 pm

I don't use RouterOS on x86 so I don't have an
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Re: 1000 hotspot concurrent user Routerboard Capacity

Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:26 pm

what is your opinion on using a duo 2 core or quad core machine as opposed to the RB1000? which would give a better performance.
If looking at raw performance: With a fast card bus like PCIe and Gigabit ethernet ports, a well designed x86 duo or quad core machine should be much faster as long as there are ethernet drivers in RouterOS. If you look just at clock speed, the x86 machine will win as most are in the 2.4GHz to 3.0GHz range vs 1.33 GHz on the RB1000 PPC. Then you have the advantage of multiple cores. Now that ROS is supporting multiple cores, you have another huge advantage on x86 assuming your application benefits from that.

But there are other places and reasons why the RB1000 is a better choice.

If your concern is reliability instead of winning a drag race, the RB1000 is a single board computer designed, manufactured, and sold by Mikrotik who also happen to make RouterOS. One company, one solution, you can count on support and it working. It is smaller and lighter than most x86 boxes. It will run cooler, quieter, and cost less to run than an x86 box.

A properly engineered x86 system that will be fast and reliable as described in my first paragraph, will cost more than the RB1000. Something like the third party Powerrouter 732 meets the criteria. It uses a 3GHz dual core CPU. It is fast, reliable, loud, and sells for $1400 which is 2 times the price of the RB1000.

I am really looking forward to the Mikrotik MUM announcements where we should hear about their new RB1000U replacement and perhaps other new products.

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Re: 1000 hotspot concurrent user Routerboard Capacity

Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:45 pm

Very good comparision and could both be able to support the kind of load that am refering too which is 1000+ concurent hotspot users, Basic configs for hotspot or none at all on the Router OS.
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