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http://www.cdr.pl/download/SXT_Lite5.pdf

What is this? How much for that?

Nice - 600Mhz CPU. But why is it Lite?

because of the price and because it has a few less feature than the non-lite product (those have higher power). compared to the original SXT-5HnD, the lite ones are better. But they are not as powerful as the G and HP models

We offer the following models:

5GHz

SXT "Lite5", TX power 27dBm (500mW), RouterOS L3, (no USB port, no voltage and temperature monitors), list price $59
SXT-5HPnD, TX power 31dBm (1300mW), RouterOS L3, list price $89
SXTG-5HnD, TX power 26dBm (400mW) with Gigabit LAN, RouterOS L4 (AP), list price $99

2GHz

SXT G-2HnD, TX power 1600mW, RouterOS L4, Gigabit, List price $79

Can we hope in near future replacement of regular SXT(G)-s with new ones on Atheros AR9344 with gigabit port, or even triple chain?

Why first info about new product have distributors (eshops)? You can add new product first on routerboard.com and then send info for distributors...
Or write post on forum for fans Mikrotik. Or Facebook

Why first info about new product have distributors (eshops)? You can add new product first on routerboard.com and then send info for distributors...
Or write post on forum for fans Mikrotik. Or Facebook

Distributors need to prepair their sales strategy, they are always informed first.

OK. Any news about SXT non-Lite?

OK. Any news about SXT non-Lite?

The above two models are already quite new

@normis hi !
Need Your advice which SXT to bye:
- SXT "Lite5", TX power 27dBm (500mW), RouterOS L3,
(no USB port, no voltage and temperature monitors), list price
- SXT-5HPnD, TX power 31dBm (1300mW), RouterOS L3
- SXTG-5HnD, TX power 26dBm (400mW) with Gigabit LAN, RouterOS L4 (AP)

Which model is “the best”, regardless of price !

Normis:

SXT Lite - Radio part is the same as previous SXT? Thanks

@normis hi !
Need Your advice which SXT to bye:
- SXT "Lite5", TX power 27dBm (500mW), RouterOS L3,
(no USB port, no voltage and temperature monitors), list price
- SXT-5HPnD, TX power 31dBm (1300mW), RouterOS L3
- SXTG-5HnD, TX power 26dBm (400mW) with Gigabit LAN, RouterOS L4 (AP)

Which model is “the best”, regardless of price !

as you can see by the description you gave it yourself, they are different products and depends on your needs. If you do not need certain features and 27dBm is enough for you that will be your obvious choice.
If you need better possible range - SXT-5HPnD
you want an access-point - SXTG-5HnD

How is the Ethernetport of the SXT-Lite5 designed?
Does cable with Kink protectors fit as with the 5HPnD.

(First SXT-Series had to low space between port and housing).

These are the fattest cables I could find at the moment. The cable is completely straight and I had no problems plugging and unplugging of these:

push the reset hole up and away from the door. After a time corrodes and the unit will restart resets itself.

push the reset hole up and away from the door. After a time corrodes and the unit will restart resets itself.

We plan to remove it altogether. The button has the same functions

I am looking to ad a few P2P links and am confused about the current lineup.
Currently...
The lite does not have gigabit but has a 600mhz cpu, and the G only has a 400mhz cpu? Last time I tested on my original sxt's I could push about 70mb two way, 90mb one way on a full link, p2p, fw off, ROS 4.1x, bridge or route is about the same, using bw test between two rb 1200's. CPU's on the SXT's were 100%.

These have all been updated to ROS 5.2x but are in production now so no bw tests today.

My assumption is that the lite can saturate a 100mb link fd and that the G can hit maybe 140mb each way but will still peak at 70mb two way.

What is the fastest p2p SXT currently available (in the next 30 days) using current ROS for a simple p2p? Bridge or Route?

The 100Mbit SXTs can fully use the 100Mbit ethernet port, so that is your bottleneck. Gigabit models eliminate this bottleneck.

because of the price We offer the following models:

5GHz

SXT "Lite5", TX power 27dBm (500mW), RouterOS L3, (no USB port, no voltage and temperature monitors), list price $59
SXT-5HPnD, TX power 31dBm (1300mW), RouterOS L3, list price $89
SXTG-5HnD, TX power 26dBm (400mW) with Gigabit LAN, RouterOS L4 (AP), list price $99

So, when is the power of the last going to be increased to at least 27dBm? (Pref. more). It makes no sense to use same type of antenna on CPE with more output power than its AP it connects to. A link works two ways so EIRP is best the same on both antenna's.


What about a new, higher level, antenna line?
16dBi antenna is still a bit weak. I am still waiting to see a 20+dBi antenna in a nice closure as the SXT/Sextant (Sextant is a miss. Only 2dBi extra for your money? No extra features?).
Make sure some metal shielding is done outside the antenna radiation pattern. To stand a change in the ever more congested (noise) spectrum only the best antenna's stand a change. Not the most powerful ones.....
(All it needs during manufacturing process is a metal paint coat on the inside of the plastic casing holding the board and radio. I proved it works on 3rd party antenna where I spray painted the interior of plastic radio housing. 2 cents per unit extra in the fabrication process!)
It's better to invest in antenna technology than in pure output power of a device.

"Octant" (better than "Sextant") should be 20dBi or more and now we are designing, make it with 3 chains! Put at least 2 PoE-in ports (better model would have the choice of PoE-in/PoE-out) so we have power backup option. With 3 Chain and Gigabit port and the high gain antenna this would make it the best product a WISP might wanna have right now....
but 'll guess I'll just keep on dreaming....

SXT LITE5 - wireless part is very small. See image
Antena - the same is in SXT-5HnD

For comparison:
Old SXT - http://www.air-stream.org.au/files/SXTMod-1-PCB.jpg

SXT LITE5 - wireless part is very small. See image
Antena - the same is in SXT-5HnD

For comparison:
Old SXT - http://www.air-stream.org.au/files/SXTMod-1-PCB.jpg

i see non solid capacitor there...

SXT LITE5 - wireless part is very small. See image
Antena - the same is in SXT-5HnD

For comparison:
Old SXT - http://www.air-stream.org.au/files/SXTMod-1-PCB.jpg

i see non solid capacitor there...

It is "Lite" low cost SXT

I guess the G has room to breathe. I was able to get 220mbps across WDS bridge with 90% cpu. I did not have time to bench a routed config, oddly I was even able to get 120mbps when running bw test both ways . More aggregate bandwidth when doing two way. I have never seen that, perhaps because I was running the test from sxt to sxt so it was using both cpu.

SXT LITE5 - wireless part is very small. See image
Antena - the same is in SXT-5HnD

For comparison:
Old SXT - http://www.air-stream.org.au/files/SXTMod-1-PCB.jpg

In SXT Lite5 wireless part is very small indeed. I think that the radio chip is integrated now into main CPU. Two radio shields contains now only amplifiers so they are very small. Also I see DDR3 chip, rather than DDR2 in previous SXT? Those two things reduces cost of device. I may be wrong, just thinking out loud.

Edit: Nope. It's still DDR2. AR9344 uses DDR1/DDR2. And yes, it looks like 9344 has built-in 2x2 MIMO radio. It could use separate 3x3 AR9380 chip also.

Question for support:

SXT lite5 have improved drainage holes? http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php ... er#p343206
Have sxt lite5 cable test? http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:In ... e_Problems

We have plans buy only SXT Lite5 for clients.
Thanks for reply

that good news lite products, but we need the AP, because the SXTG-5HnD has 32MB RAM 400MHz CPU speed when the CPU has Lite5 SXT cpe speed 600MHz 64MB RAM
so that the CPE has better performance than AP!
I guess we should be coming soon new products

How is nstreme working on ptp consisting of sxt lite5? I am planning to use it on 300m link, and dont want to use nv2.
Has somebody on it running nstreme?

How is nstreme working on ptp consisting of sxt lite5? I am planning to use it on 300m link, and dont want to use nv2.
Has somebody on it running nstreme?

NV2, nstreme or ordinairy 802.11 are ways of how the sofware (ROS) is dealing with the transport of data and polling of the clients.
This is basically independent on the type of antenna and radio (as far as they have same architecture).
The type of antenna and used radio and both their gains make a certain signal strength and quality. On top of this you can run any of the mentioned protocol versions. But basically for the same signals it shall not make any difference if you use a SXT-lite or a normal SXT, nor any other similar antenna unit.
So your question is a bit odd....

nstreme is very sensitive on type of wireless card, cables, noise...

There is small bug with regulating tx power.
When i use card rates - then current tx power is still maximum.
Regulatory domain works well. See image.

The same problem in 5.24 and 6.0rc11

Honzam, This is a hardware limitation. You must use "All rates fixed"

Ok, thanks for info. I will try it.

Another question: CPE (Sxt lite) have procesor 600Mhz.

But AP (711GA-5HnD) have only 400Mhz.

I known there is solution use 411GL with card. But....

Have you plan make rb711xxx with 600Mhz ?

Ok, thanks for info. I will try it.

Another question: CPE (Sxt lite) have procesor 600Mhz.

But AP (711GA-5HnD) have only 400Mhz.

I known there is solution use 411GL with card. But....

Have you plan make rb711xxx with 600Mhz ?

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SXT lite is out
2 mounts pass
But still every distributer is out of stock
I just receive first 20 Lite that were given to him as a test and that is

SXT lite is out
2 mounts pass
But still every distributer is out of stock
I just receive first 20 Lite that were given to him as a test and that is

All I can say is, this is a very very popular product.

Nice photos:
http://www.cdr.pl/p1867,routerboard-sxt ... tdoor.html

RB Pages say - level 3. http://routerboard.com/RBSXT-5nDr2

But all our SXT lite5 have Level4.
It concerns only the first pieces?

RB Pages say - level 3. http://routerboard.com/RBSXT-5nDr2

But all our SXT lite5 have Level4.
It concerns only the first pieces?

Some of the first pieces had Level4 as a bonus. Regular production run will have L3 as specifications indicate. Congratulations

This is the rule for almost all new products since I was a kid

Honzam, This is a hardware limitation. You must use "All rates fixed"

So this means that this is not going to change with newer versions of ROS or SXT hardware? Aren't there any issues when using all-rates-fixed?

Good afternoon, as I do for the sxt 5 lite work with channel width in 10mhz? Well I set but does not work.

Try 6.0RC. It works...

hi,

i am using a 24V 3Amp Power supply for an SXT.

is this ok? will it be fine to use that on long term?

yes

can i use SXT LITE 5 for p2p link for 18 km link.?

18km

can i use SXT LITE 5 for p2p link for 18 km link.?

you can if you open the SXT remove the board put it inside another enclousure and connect a 23 dbi grid antenna ( SISO or MIMO ) any kind.

i have done that couple of times.

I have a problem with this:

If I connect it to a long Ethernet (with PoE) cable ~20 meters, the light in the board gets "on", but the device is not working. If I use a small cable ~3m, then, all are OK.

Has anyone has the same problem? What should I do? Should I use a different power supply with more volts? Now, I'm using the included one.

I had one similar problem with another mikrotik product, the "groove". With other routerboards as 411, 800, 433 etc, I
never had such problems, although I used longer cables > 30m.

I have a problem with this:

If I connect it to a long Ethernet (with PoE) cable ~20 meters, the light in the board gets "on", but the device is not working. If I use a small cable ~3m, then, all are OK.

Has anyone has the same problem? What should I do? Should I use a different power supply with more volts? Now, I'm using the included one.

I had one similar problem with another mikrotik product, the "groove". With other routerboards as 411, 800, 433 etc, I
never had such problems, although I used longer cables > 30m.

what is your power adaptor output??

suggested 24V DC with alteast 2AMP... it should not fail.

I use the included Power Supply, which is (i think) 24V, 0.5A. Today I'll measure the Volts that gives the end of the cable...