Category: Hardware
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MUM Update 1
Met some of the Latvian’s so far, Normands is a pretty cool cat. He commented on my blog a while back on the 450G BGP testing. Hardware updates: The RB750s will be coming out with a wireless version. The RB750s will also be coming out with a gigabit version. The RB1000 will be coming out…
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Cheap High Density Layer 2 Aggregation
Lets say we have a company that has several locations. They are about to all move into a new building, the majority of these users will be in a cube farm. All of the users will be within 280′ of your IDF. Each user is getting two ports, and you want them both to be…
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Geist Environmental Monitoring
So I got in some monitoring gear from Geist a little while back. Got in the RSMINI163. This is a 1U rack mount guy. He has 16 ports for 16 probes. He also has 3 analog inputs for dry contact connections. This guy has a built-in temp sensor to boot. We also got one of…
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Homemade Fiber Tester
I needed the ability to conveniently test fiber, and I needed a light source for a light meter at the office. To buy one would have cost us around $600-1200, so I just made one for around $12 and some parts we already had. 🙂 Parts: I used a multimode to singlemode transceiver we had…
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Mikrotik OS v3.24
Change log can be found HERE. Thanks to Normunds I was actually able to get a peek at this OS a little early. This was in direct response to my RB450G testing. They fixed a lot of BGP issues with this new release. I’ll post my full results of the retest in the next couple…
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Mikrotik Newsletter 18
Here it is. Highlights: 802.11n support! They are showing the RB600a(now $195), pushing 185Mb with routing and connection tracking!!!!!!! I will be happy to test this for anyone who wants to send me some hardware! Anyone doing any real world testing, please let me know! Nstream dual, anyone? R52n($49) and R2n($39), new N series cards.…
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Custom Mikrotik 450G Case
I’m not saying that I’m an old-world craftsman, but you do have to admire my work.