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missinlnk

That's a bad day right there. :shock: You should be able to make hotspot do what you need to do. The first time you enable hotspot, the html files for it are created in the file store. You can just edit the login.html file to say what you need. If I remember correctly, you can also strip out the act...

missinlnk

Keep in mind, they're talking about outbound traffic only. This means no dst-nat is necessary. Do you have anything in IP -> Firewall -> Filters? If the answer is no, and the Wii can successfully connect to the internet, then you don't need to do anything else. Nobody will make a connection directly...

missinlnk

511 is the protocol max ?

what is the other bit for ?

Broadcast ?

The AP itself?

missinlnk

Problem 1 - Port Auto-negotiation. Ports 1-10 when set to full duplex 100, they do not connect (No Link) to switch I am using (Nortel 1800) (Cross or straight cable) Ports 1-10 DO connect when I set them to auto, but they don't have duplex. Ports 11-12 DO connect to the switch with 100 full duplex,...

missinlnk

One would hope that the DHCP lease time was low, like an Hour or two, and that a critical bit of kit like a DHCP server has a lot of power protection, so it very very rarely reboots. Your point is very good. And it does look like he has it on a UPS and power cycling isn't normally an issue. I'm jus...

missinlnk

I also changed: /ip dhcp-server config set store-leases-disk never Previously was set to 5min. I really have no need for that to be written to disk. So if your RB450G reboots, are all of your clients directly attached to the RB450G so they will immediately pull a new IP address when their ethernet ...

missinlnk

One is on 2427 and the failing one on 2437. Both tx power levels are left at default and both have 10dbi panel antenna's attached. Definately enable the log to monitor the wireless cards. Do you have the ability to trade the used frequency between the two (set 2437 to 2427 and vice-versa)? If so, d...

missinlnk

I just finished replacing the caps on 5 RB450's. Still no offers of compensation from Mikrotik or the reseller. I wonder how MT warranties their products in Europe. Europe has mandatory warranty period I believe. Mikrotik usually handles the warranties by repairing the equipment themselves, not by ...

missinlnk

It's rebooting every few seconds? What's setup in your watchdog entry?

Instead of trying to upgrade/downgrade, reset the unit back to defaults and try programming it again. Sounds like it's an errant configuration (or a power supply issue like vacarosie200 mentions) more than a firmware problem.

missinlnk

To expand on Tom's statement, most of the cables purchased by customers fall into a very specific pattern. If you need a UFL to NFB connection, in 99% of all cases one of our three standard lengths (5 inch, 8 inch, or 12 inch) will work. It's actually very rare (though it does happen like in your ca...

missinlnk

Could you please show you config command, How 230 pppoe run on 450G? :D Some of the original RB450Gs shipped with a level 4 license which would have limited you to only 200 PPPoE connections, but they all should be upgradable to level 5 licenses. Just click the upgrade key button on the system -> l...

missinlnk

So far we personally haven't seen any issues from RMAs, but not enough time has passed yet for any problems to show up from our stock. How are you installing them? Are you putting them in 411, 433/493, or 800 style boards? If in 433/493/800, how many cards per board are you installing? Do you see th...

missinlnk

we do have some new products coming, but they will be announced when they will be announced

You need to have MUMs more often so you have an excuse to announce more products.

missinlnk

it's still only a dream

I have a customer trying to accomplish it right now. He's using some high dollar filters to do it. He's got the link working, but he's still working out the kinks to try to get it above the bandwidth of just one fully maxed out 2x2 40MHz N link.

missinlnk

source address and Out-Interface choose one,If a source address, such as "192.168.88.0/24" You need other people to give you recommendations I dont know your environment, I can find only these issues. I think your problem in the IP ROUTER LIST Check it focus That funky IP address & ne...

missinlnk

Here in South Africa, it's possible to buy the RG-316 double braided cable and get these made up by a company called RF Design without any problems. I recently needed 12 that were 50cm long for a new high site. They came in quite expensive though. About US$13 each. Honestly, that's not that bad of ...

missinlnk

What kind of system? Not all routerboards will work with 2.9.x.

missinlnk

Behind the scenes, a gigabit ethernet connection requires auto-negotiation to properly sync up. That's just how the standard is written. The other units that allow you to turn off auto-negotiation and still force 1Gb and a duplex must have auto-negotiation still enabled in the background and are som...

missinlnk

If you need anything more advanced than the suggestions listed here, you will need to run a proxy server on a linux/windows computer and use a porn filter there. There are several companies out there that do the necessary manual labor required to attempt to filter porn sites. Remember that these por...

missinlnk

So, my conclusion is that the HDDA-5W dish isn't usable - does this sound plausable? Yes. There is a 32dB difference between the two polarities, but with 2 separate radio cards we have seen some interference issues between the two pols due to that not being enough separation. This isn't an issue on...

missinlnk

Can you define low throughput? What were they seeing? And how are you Mikrotik's configured? Are you routing or bridging? Any other features in use on the router?

missinlnk

Do you mean superchannel for the wireless cards, which unlocks all frequencies? This is available for free on any level license in versions 4.3 and newer.

missinlnk

"Yes, it's 11.56% better."

It's always better to be exact.

missinlnk

Also make sure you're running 4.9. We had some problems with the stability of upnp after they fixed it in 4.6. 4.9 has that resolved and has been working well for us. -SL

missinlnk

We'll need a little more information than that. Can you show us your PPPoE config? What is left in your log files when the PPPoE users are forced to disconnect?

missinlnk

Make sure you are connecting using an IP address and not using MAC connect. Winbox will sometimes not update immediately when opening up a new window in MAC connect mode. The results will look exactly like you are describing. If you connect to the routerboard using an IP address, this should not hap...

missinlnk

If you have other 900MHz usage in the area (which is only detectable using a 900MHz spectrum analyser like from Ubiquiti or Metageek) nstreme on the SR9/XR9 usually causes more problems than it helps. We'll only turn on nstreme when we are in an area with little other 900MHz usage. We also never go ...

missinlnk

What version of RouterOS are you running? How does the problem show itself? Do all the customers have problems at the same time, or is it varied where it seems like only a few people have a problem but that it's constantly happening? What's between the RB1000 and your customers? How is that network ...

missinlnk

We currently do not have the RB250GS on our website. The only thing that would be $130 would be the RBSoho5G, which is just the RB450G pre-assembled in an indoor case with an 18v PS. We will be selling the RB250GS at the normal price once we get our shipment in of them. Sorry about the confusion on ...

missinlnk

If you temporarily disable all of the firewall filter rules, do https connections succeed?

Are you running a hotspot or a proxy server on the router?

Are you doing NAT/masquerading? What rules are you using to accomplish that?

missinlnk

Try typing it this way from a terminal window:

ping [:resolve www.google.fr]

Do you have any luck?

missinlnk

These download problems from this mirror first started showing up with 4.6. Everything worked before then. I've heard of multiple reports of this issue from different clients scattered around the US. What could have changed on our end to cause this to start happening so consistently? What do we need...

missinlnk

This happened to me as well on an x86 system. To fix, all I had to do was delete and re-add the dhcp server. This did not happen on our 532 board we first attempted the upgrade on.

missinlnk

netinstall-4.7.zip is also corrupt from http://download.mikrotik.com/netinstall-4.7.zip

Downloading it from http://www.mikrotik.com/download/netinstall-4.7.zip works just fine.

missinlnk

He's right. To downgrade a routerboard, upload the npk to the root of the files list as normal. Then do his steps. It'll work.

missinlnk

Putty download page:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgta ... nload.html

missinlnk

Hungary, Budapest. This is the worst tower what I saw sometime

You're being very generous by calling that a tower.

missinlnk

missinlnk

Depends on what you're comparing. What does this device need to do for you?

missinlnk

Antenna placement matters here too. Make sure you don't have two antennas that are mounted so close together that their signals are bleeding into each other. If you have signal strengths that are insanely high (stronger than -40), we have found it can frequently be attributed to a combination of rad...

missinlnk

Thanks for your response. Just to confirm, you are saying that in the example screenshot above, there is 19dbm of RF power leading into my pigtail. Correct?

Correct.

missinlnk

The 10dB offset is due to a 10dB amplifier on board of the card. The real TX Power is the power level coming off of the radio card's chipset. The TX Power is the power level coming out of the antenna connector. You're adjusting in RouterOS based upon the post-amplifier power level for the XR2. Howev...

missinlnk

The chances of two RD532s in different parts of the world both "blowing" after a software upgrade are very small. Actually, it's more like the lottery. The chance that one specific person will win a lottery twice is insanely small, but the chance that somebody will eventually win a lotter...

missinlnk

A hole in the top for ventilation would be great right up until you get your first rain. :D Do you see the drawing above? I missed the spout on there! Sorry about that. :) That could potentially help some, but I'm not sure if enough air to make a difference is actually going to cycle through the ca...

missinlnk

A hole in the top for ventilation would be great right up until you get your first rain.

missinlnk

My (erroneous?) thinking was that as the near-by customers were already tunnelling through this router via a route set up to the L2TP server, setting the default route to use an L2TP tunnel starting from this router would only catch traffic generated by the ethernet customer + hotspot users, which ...

missinlnk

Acim, do you have the RB800 deployed anywhere else yet? If so, has this been a problem with all of them you've deployed or just the units you've tried on the tower?

For anyone else, are you seeing this problem with all of your RB800s or just some?

missinlnk

Make sure you're running the most current version of Winbox.

Also, are the interfaces bridged together?

missinlnk

Ok, I'm a little confused, so let me restate this to make sure I understand the problem. On this repeater unit, you have a backhaul client radio, an AP for near-by customers, a hotspot for laptops, and an ethernet connection to an on-site customer. When your near-by customers start using a PPP conne...

missinlnk

Is it still the last queue in order on the list?

missinlnk

Can you post a copy of your config to give us a clearer picture of the details of this unit's setup?

missinlnk

That's the 8 digit softid, which doesn't have the superchannel associated with it. And there's no entry in the old-software-id field, which is where your 7 digit softid w/ superchannel would be. Looks like it's time to get in touch with support@mikrotik.com to figure out how to either go backwards t...

missinlnk

You can either go back to the same reseller, or you can get the SoftID yourself from the Mikrotik website. Even if you didn't purchase it directly from Mikrotik, they will allow you to claim ownership of that SoftID so you can get the key. Just go to http://www.mikrotik.com and click on "New Ac...

missinlnk

Because there was only ever one 5Ghz standard before (a) versus the two 2.4GHz standards (b & g). There's no such thing as a 5GHz-a/b/n. Sorry, I don't get your point here. I have 802.11n cards with only 2GHz, so the option 2GHz-g/n should be there, unless it break some standards. 2GHz-b/g/n mo...

missinlnk

Was your superchannel license associated with a 7 digit SoftID before? If so, you'll have to load that key back on. You can get your key for that SoftID by logging into the mikrotik website.

missinlnk

I just wonder why it is no option like 2GHz-g/n, when there is a 5GHz-a/n option. Because there was only ever one 5Ghz standard before (a) versus the two 2.4GHz standards (b & g). There's no such thing as a 5GHz-a/b/n. Had the 5GHz had two previous standards before n, I'm sure the 5Ghz legacy m...

missinlnk

Yes. Also keep in mind that if you run in compatibility mode, you'll see your n throughputs drop when a b or g client connects due to how the wireless systems work together. Is there any reason you are trying to run it in mixed mode?

missinlnk

Some people release info on March 31st to throw people off the track on their April Fools' jokes. I think this might be one of those times...

missinlnk

There's really no other reason for the RB to be crashing then. Replacing the cable was a good idea, though I'm surprised it didn't fix it. How does the RB fail? Can you ping the unit through the ethernet connection when it's hanged? How soon does it happen after a reboot? Can you define the traffic ...

missinlnk

What's this card's FCC id? Or is this not for usage in the US?

missinlnk

I wouldn't be so concerned with the voltage (your voltage should still be up around 20v at the RB even when you max out the ethernet standard at 100m, unless that splice is really causing some major issues). What's the amp rating of your PoE power supply? An RB411AH plus an XR5 is going to pull, whe...

missinlnk

No, the RB1000 has always had the 1.5GB memory limit. It's just hard to find 1.5GB sticks of RAM, so Roc-Noc goes up to the 2GB modules. RouterOS is still only using 1.5GB total.

Scott

missinlnk

The Realtek 8139 offloads a lot of network processing to the CPU. Combine that with the simple queues, the PPPoE connections, and a filter list that is not optimized, and there's a chance that is where most of your CPU usage is going to. That's also a very old version of RouterOS, though I'm not sur...

missinlnk

How does the traffic flow back to the central office? Are they connecting just to a straight public IP address or is this through a VPN connection between both locations? Does NAT get involved anywhere? Do you have any firewall filter rules? If so, how many rules do you have, and could any of those ...

missinlnk

With a quick look the config looks ok, and just saw that you're working with 2 omnis.

Can you try just with just one chain enabled? Do you see any difference in speed or does it stay the same?

missinlnk

If you're only using one computer, and you're only testing with one connection out to the internet, then it looks like it's working correctly.

missinlnk

This idea would work on ALL the RouterOS supported devices. An easy newbie style GUI for a RB1000 or PC...

What features are missing from webbox that keep you from feeling it's ready for that kind of usage?

missinlnk

You have a level 4 license, which is completely different from the version. If you are running 3.25 on your board, you can already update to 4.x without any extra costs or contacting your distributor. No 802.11n card will work until you've upgraded to version 4. Procedures for upgrading the license ...

missinlnk

correct, it is simpler if you know that you get empty array in return, but if you don't... ...if you don't, then it should do the "else". That means the wireless package is installed and enabled. I think janisk is trying to say that he prefers as a programming practice to compare an empty...

missinlnk

Ummm....

(Sector aimed directly down)

Did you take that picture? Was it intentionally installed that way, or did a pole just fall down? Have any more details?

missinlnk

I always have to clean up our scripts that have been exported before they will import correctly. The easiest way to troubleshoot the script is to copy/paste it into a terminal. Scroll back up in the terminal and you should find at least one error message in the middle of your script. That error shou...

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add check-gateway=ping comment=1 disabled=no distance=1 dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 \
gateway=pppoe-out1,pppoe-out2

Why is this line in your config?

Also, how are you testing this? How many computers are sending bandwidth through the router at that point?

missinlnk

Are you running a version of RouterOS 4 on the board?

missinlnk

Something's gone horribly wrong. I downloaded everything and uploaded the mips-be.npk to a 411 and rebooted. I uploaded the powerpc.npk to a 600 and rebooted and I uploaded the mips-le.npk to a 532 and rebooted. All three machines have come up with an error "system error - broken package"...

missinlnk

Using the complete package, I just tried updating our test RB600. I first tried from 4.5 to 4.6 using the winbox upload/reboot method, which was successful. I then netinstalled 3.30 to start with a clean slate. Finally, I then uploaded 4.6 and rebooted the router. This was also successful. I did hav...

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I have tried this on 3 different RB600s..... Hmm, I must really be missing something. Bootloader is 2.20. Silly question, but I have to ask: you've downloaded the PowerPC version, right? Also, you are uploading the file to the root of the filesystem and not putting it inside of another folder (like...

missinlnk

What version of RouterOS are you running the cards under?

missinlnk

Yes. I know of at least one distributor with stock.

Awesome, that means I know of two distributors with them in stock!

Scott Long
Technical Support Supervisor
WISP-Router, Inc.
http://www.wisp-router.com

missinlnk

I have one FAIL straight out the box.

In the upper left hand corner is a chip labeled SJ. Is this chip damaged on any of your cards?

missinlnk

RB1000 is still available. Only RB1000U in rackmount case is no longer available. Compact case edition is still in stock.

And there are still retailers who have the RB1000U in stock.

missinlnk

Actually, the lesson I got is that inefficient rules will bring down any router/firewall from any company. Throwing extra money behind faster hardware won't fix the problem, it'll just mask it. You'll see this issue with Cisco and Juniper just as much as you'll see it with Mikrotik. I'm happy to see...

missinlnk

If you have followed the forum threads, as you say, then you will see that all issues were solved with wireless settings reset and hw-retries increase Normis - if you had read my post, you would have seen that i HAVE TRIED THIS. I have problematic links set to hw-retries=15. I have done the "r...

missinlnk

How does it perform with 2 chains on the AP and one on the CPE? I am seriously considering putting up an 802.11n AP, but I still haven't found a reasonably priced dual antenna setup for the CPE. Me too. I am only waiting for a MT/3rd party solution that make a nice and need solution with two antenn...

missinlnk

any problem with the 450G version? I'd also like to know if the "G" version has the same caps and potential for problems, or if this is limited to the plain 450. So far I have only seen this on the RB450. The RB450G appears to be quite different in design. Tom I'll second this. We have on...

missinlnk

500 lines is a lot to process for each packet. If you can change your firewall rules to be aware of state and thus only go through that list on new connections you'll have much better performance. You'll have even better performance if you can find a way to authenticate your users that doesn't requi...

missinlnk

Yes, the RB1000U is being EOLed. Some distributors still have units in stock. The RB1000 is still available from Mikrotik. In that other thread (which I can't find right now either) Normis mentioned they are working on a replacement and hinted that it *might* be announced at an upcoming MUM. That's ...

missinlnk

Nick, kinda off topic, but just wanted to say thank you for jumping in here. If you can bring that kind of background and knowledge into any of the other discussions on this forum we'd love to see you post more! We'll even be nice and overlook the periods of silence while you're sailing to a new por...

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It's not like that. I can afford it, but will it be an improvement over the RB750G, for my scenario? It's hard to give a definitive yes in this situation, because the amount of detail we would need to know you don't have yet. Having said that, the RB750G will be cutting it close. I personally think...

missinlnk

Can you give us some more information about how you're configuring your routers? A post of your config would be great, but even just a rundown of how you're setting up the wireless card and bridges would be helpful.

Scott

missinlnk

If we're wishing here, I would actually prefer the option for it to behave both ways. There are times I'll have a link that is going up and down that I'll want to ack and have it remain acked until I manually turn it off. There are other links where I'd prefer the ack to expire as soon as The Dude d...

missinlnk

802.11n changed how it deals with a 40MHz wide channel. You want to look at the ht-extension-channel feature. That adds the 2nd 20MHz channel. Here's a link to that part of the 802.11n setup guide in the wiki:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/802.11n_S ... ation_tabs

missinlnk

I looked back through this thread and I noticed that everyone keeps checking www.l.google.com for an IP address. This DNS name is not used when you're running OpenDNS. When you use OpenDNS's servers, www.google.com actually points to google.navigation.opendns.com. Can you guys running OpenDNS show w...

missinlnk

I'm wondering if we have our answer mixed in with all of the conversation. - Mikrotik round-robins their DNS requests. - OpenDNS resolves Google in a way that the Mikrotik has to make two requests - When the Mikrotik makes the second DNS request, they use the other DNS server listed, not the origina...

missinlnk

Have you not read this whole thread? This is getting really frustrating and nobody at MT seems to care. Here's the basic summary of this thread: 1) We can confirm that while using an MT router with OpenDNS, http://www.google.com won't load properly. 2) We aren't positive yet, so we can't confirm th...

missinlnk

*Edited cause I didn't read the last post properly* From everything we've seen, OpenDNS is the only DNS provide that has caused this issue. So does anyone know if response from OpenDNS is a proper response from a DNS server per the DNS specs? Or should the Mikrotik DNS service not need to expect thi...

missinlnk

yes, for upgrade - simply upload necessary files via Windox and then reboot =) in 95% of cases it came back normally =) anyway, if you use NetInstall only - you won't loose your license. NetInstall works correctly with current soft-id We just see the worst of the worst here, so I'm used to netinsta...

missinlnk

Out of curiosity, how do you install RouterOS on the USB drives? like on any other drive =) connect it to my Windows computer, run NetInstall, select that drive, select necessary packages, press Install, unmount drive, insert it to the router and boot from that USB drive :) Gotcha, so you just use ...

missinlnk

RouterBOARDS uses another way of calculating SoftID =)

and we use USB drives for our routers - they work at any hardware when we replace it =) so I don't like theories that say it shouldn't fork for years =)

Out of curiosity, how do you install RouterOS on the USB drives?

missinlnk

Ok I sent this forum llink to my boss, and this is what he replied. Regarding your HDD/licence theory... think logically - does a routerboard have a hard drive? I once lost an onboard NIC. Replaced it with PCI NIC, and had to buy new licence - personal experience.... that's how I know! Any theories...

missinlnk

these issues you should ask to manufacturers.

So you're saying you don't understand it well enough to be able to explain it to anyone?

missinlnk

You seem to be pretty frustrated, could you for the moment stop using OpenDNS and instead use a different set of DNS servers? That doesn't fix the problem, but it would at least resolve your frustration until we can pin down exactly what is happening. Has anyone ever seen this behavior when using Op...

missinlnk

normis, thanks for the replies, as i say i want to downgrade becose i have a level 3 licence for 4.1 version.. you dont understand me... Greetings If you have a level 3 license for 4.1, you will have a level 3 license for 4.3 as well. Your license is good for major versions, so if it works on any v...

missinlnk

Normis, do you know if there are any plans to add this feature to the Dude or provide another way to upgrade licenses?

missinlnk

I'm posting this from a Fedora Core 10 box running Winbox, Netinstall, and The Dude (test environment). The ... button will work under Linux, however we only run the three applications as root. I could be wrong on this, but we were never able to find a way to make some of the functionality work with...

missinlnk

I will have to disagree with you there. Other than MT cards, I cannot ever remember having a card burn up because you did not have an antenna plugged into the port. But that problem is a lot less expensive than the one where they just quit working after you change the channel (even when you change ...

missinlnk

i also wanna know the same thing but no one is giving right answer to ur question. why we see 2GHz-10MHz/5MHz along with 2.4 GHz B/G? if all these bands are same then why we see seperately...in what respects these bands are different frm each other..? The standard channel width is 20MHz. All of the...

missinlnk

What do you mean burning the minipci slot? No other cards work in it?

missinlnk

What permissions is the dude service running with? Admin rights or is it running with different permissions? Could there be permissions errors with it writing to the file? Have you looked to see if there are any errors in the system's Error Log?

missinlnk

The above poster was right. As soon as you change the auth type to CHAP instead of HTTPS this problem goes away. MikroTik take note, Hotspot eventually stops accepting new logins (it hangs at the redirect part) when using SSL/HTTPS authentication. The post above that mentions that he only uses SSL ...

missinlnk

Now I am sure you are making joke on me. :) Not a joke. Put in your IP address into the following link and you can get winbox from your Mikrotik router. http://router.ip.goes.here/winbox/winbox.exe Alternatively, when you just go to the root page (http://router.ip.goes.here/) there will be a link t...

missinlnk

Would a "/system reset-configuration file=name.rsc" do what you want? It would reset, and then apply the config in the RSC file so that your CPE could connect to the AP for example. Sorry to just join the bandwagon, but I know this feature would be loved by several of our customers. Not h...

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I am saying you make ONE, just ONE, Routerboard that has a modern processor and fits the 532 form factor. There is a decent market for this product that will be there for years and years to come. Could you give some more details on this product as you invision it? Do they just create the "432&...

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Bledar, I'm having serious troubles with queues and mark packets (ip/firewall/mangle) in v3.x versions, 2.9.51 works, and is stable. Could you help those of us out who have been using 3.x without issues for a while now and give us an example of a configuration that works on 2.9.51 that does not wor...

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