Ya, LOL I used an old 19db flat panel for one tower that kept overheating! What do you use?
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Jeromie Reeves <jree...@18-30chat.net>wrote: > I add sun shields to all my boxes these days. Does not take much to do > and it keeps temps far lower. I do not even bother with temp > monitoring any more and weird random failures from gear has dropped > off to near zero. > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Simon Westlake <si...@powercode.com> > wrote: > > I have the exact same OEM boxes Baltic uses, we use them for Powercode > BMUs. > > They still don't have the kind of temperature range the 1100 has, it's > rated > > at -30 to +60c, the x86 boxes are 0-40. Granted, they may work somewhat > > outside that, but in the summer, they are going to get way over 40c in > some > > of the enclosures. Plus they are generating a lot more heat and bringing > the > > temp of the box even higher. > > > > > > On 6/16/2012 8:12 AM, Scott Reed wrote: > >> > >> Have you checked out the x86-based routers from Butch Evans or Baltic > >> Networks rather than putting your own together? > >> > >> On 6/15/2012 4:30 PM, Simon Westlake wrote: > >>> > >>> I have a mix of RB1100 x2AH in towers along with some x86 boxes for > >>> larger towers. The big benefit of the RB1100 x2AH is that it has a much > >>> better operating temperature range than any x86 box you're going to be > able > >>> to affordably put together. > >>> > >>> So far, I only have three RB1100 x2AH deployed but they are working > very > >>> well (they replaced RB493s with similar issues, couldn't process the > needed > >>> amount of packets.) I have about 35 RB450/493 deployed and 5 x86 boxes > in > >>> towers. We'll be using the RB1100x2AH for the future, I think.. until > they > >>> get squashed and we need something bigger. Some of the locations they > are at > >>> are sitting at 100f+ inside the box and they are still rocking along. > >>> > >>> On 6/15/2012 11:40 AM, Troy Settle wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Curious as to other people's experiences with the 493AH. I have a > site > >>>> that > >>>> needs to push up to about 20Mbit/s and run 150-200 simple queues. > It's > >>>> been > >>>> working fine until we added the queues, then it started dropping > packets > >>>> all > >>>> over the place. I guess we just overwhelmed it? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Looking at the RB1100AH as a replacement, but should we consider going > >>>> up to > >>>> an x86 based router? > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >> > > > > -- > > Simon Westlake > > Powercode.com > > (920) 351-1010 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -- -RickG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120619/75472f47/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
