Hello,


frend and I are starting a little WISP so we were thinking to buy:
RB2011UAS-RM, services that will run:
NAT, firewall, PCQ & queue tree, dhcp, 1 pppoe client ->WAN
and HOTSPOT
i have internet connection: download: 40mbps, upload: 2mbps
on same device will be usermanager(radius server) and hotspot portal.
do you know how many active hotspot users can be connected to this device?

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50. It is the limit for usermanager sessions for a L5 license. I would read a little more into different setups before starting a WISP. I would not run everything on the same box and also wouldn't use a 2011 as my controller if I had a choice. The 2011 are great boards but not quite enough for a wisp controller IMO.

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:License

hello, I got RB2011UAS-RM and we tested it, it's good device, not so robust but i dont think so
that it can be our network backbone.
can you take a look at image and tell me is this good backbone for network with cca 200 users?

beside the fact that rb2011uas is a very sexy CPE device I would recomend to put the servers on the gigabit interfaces and the slow adsl lines on the 100mbit ones.

I also want to remark that the RB2011 might not handle this kind of performance. Doing NAT for 100MBit will eat about 50% of your CPU. If you are going to do bonding and routing and stuff on the same board, it will get bogged down a bit I think. Maybe it'll be good to start out with (it has enough memory to handle it) and then upgrade to a faster version later on.

Also please write HP Proliant DL380G4 to use the correct 'spelling'. The Same with ghz and Ghz or gbps and Gbps. Captials are important in these cases.

I tested routerboard today, on eth1 port i setup NAT, and connected it to internet(dl:100Mbps, up: 100Mbps)
on eth6 I connected PC and started to download Ubuntu OS, at 100Mbps download rate CPU load was 40%
multiwan i'm planning to solve like it's done on this tut:
http://aacable.wordpress.com/2011/07/27 ... t-by-zaib/
do You have some better ways of solving multi-wan?

@Quindor thanks for tip

for hotspot users I'm planning tu ser Hotspot service on MikroTik(user&pass on Captive portal).
authenticating method for registred users is simple MAC and IP donding.
this is not so secured way because someone can scann the network and change MAC address.
is it better way of authenticating creating PPTP server on MikroTik and connecting clients to virtual LAN?
with this way user must know username and password to connect, and is it possible to bind one PPTP sccount to one MAC address?