I looked and looked but I can't find the link I found to that Mini PCI. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Aaron, Network Administrator, Great Lakes Internet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity where might I find one these cables? > > --- > > Aaron, MCP, Network+, A+ > Network Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Great Lakes Internet, Inc > 112 N. Howard > Croswell, MI 48422 > > (810) 679-3395 > MI Toll-Free (877) 558-8324 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:59 AM > To: Mikrotik discussions > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Routerboard Recommendations. > > You can get three cards if you use a minipci cable and let it dangle, > if you really need it. > > On 12/3/08, Aaron, Network Administrator, Great Lakes Internet > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree, the RB433's are very powerful, versatile, and cheap. One > caveat > > if you plan on using Ubiquiti XR5's though. The RF shielding on the > > XR5's is so large that you can only fit two of the XR5's on the RB433. > > One in the top slot, and one in the bottom. This leaves the center > slot > > unusable. > > > > Great board though. Using two RB433's and a pair of XR5's I was able > to > > push upwards of 60Mbps half duplex through a wireless link. This was > > using 40MHz channels with nstreme. This is real tcp throughput too. > > > > --- > > > > Aaron, MCP, Network+, A+ > > Network Administrator > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Great Lakes Internet, Inc > > 112 N. Howard > > Croswell, MI 48422 > > > > (810) 679-3395 > > MI Toll-Free (877) 558-8324 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Butch Evans > > Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:26 PM > > To: Mikrotik discussions > > Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Routerboard Recommendations. > > > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Scottie Arnett wrote: > > > >>Some background, we are mainly a Canopy Wisp. I am feeding 3 towers > >>with backhauls from our main tower(NOC) that the backbone enters > >>into. I am using a PC 'tik' box as a main router at our NOC before > >>the traffic enters our upstream router, and using it to do several > >>different things including bandwidth shaping, traffic > >>prioritization, firewalls, etc... it is our only 'tik' at the > >>moment. > >> > >>I am wanting to put some routerboards at each of the three other > >>tower locations to cut down on the garbage coming across the > >>backhauls and everywhere else on it's way back to the NOC. These > >>towers have anywhere between 30 - 60 customers on them. What I > >>would like to do at each tower is move some of the bandwidth > >>shaping, traffic prioritization, firewalls, etc... to each tower. I > >>doubt that each tower will ever have more than 120 customers, but > >>would like to plan for the future in case we add 900Mhz AP's. > > > > Some questions are in order to clarify your design goals. Are your > > 3 towers currently routed? In other words, is tower 1 on a > > different subnet than tower 2 and 3? If so, then the process will > > be much simpler and more straightforward. If not, then there is > > some work to be done in getting it set up that way. Based on your > > goal of moving traffic shaping and prioritization over to this new > > tower router configuration, I'd suggest the RB433AH routerboard. > > This board is a 680MHz router with 3 ethernet ports and 3 minipci > > slots (for your other "future" upgrade mentioned below). It's a > > pretty inexpensive device at about $150 plus case (indoor is $23 and > > outdoor $73). The RB493AH is the same CPU but has 9 Ethernet ports > > and 3 minipci slots. RB493AH is $169 plus about $30 for an indoor > > case. Outdoor case is gonna run about $70 plus, depending on the > > configuration. Either of these boards will do what you want with > > room to spare. FWIW, all ethernet ports on these are 10/100. If > > you want/need gigE, then RB600 or RB1000 is needed. > > > >>Can you guys give me a routerboard suggestion to do this for the > >>towers. We are mostly Canopy 900 Mhz, so no more than 4 Mbps > >>aggregate can move through each of these towers at the moment, but > >>could go to 8 Mbps. I would like the ability to add some 2.4 or 5.7 > >>cards to these later on for LOS customers, so please include > >>suggestions with the ability to add these cards later. > > > > The RB400 series and RB600 have minipci slots that would facilitate > > the radio cards. RB1000 does not. Hit me offlist if you're > > interested in a firm quote on the parts or if you are in need of > > assistance with the transition. > > > > -- > > ******************************************************************** > > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > > * http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member > * > > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > > ******************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > > RouterOS > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > > > > > -- > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. > --- Henry Spencer > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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