Mikrotik releases 802.11n support and Cards

Posted May 23rd, 2009 by omegatron

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As listed in the newest mikrotik newsletter: http://www.mikrotik.com/pdf/news18.pdf

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Newsletter #018. May 22th, 2009 1/2
802.11n support
Announcing two new MikroTik RouterBOARD products - R52n and R2n that both support wireless 802.11n standard in addition to 802.11abg or 802.11bg (in case of R2n).
Finally it’s possible to achieve 200Mbps actual data throughput over wireless links!
Starting with v4.0beta3 RouterOS now includes support for these 802.11n cards, that is unlocked by updating your RouterOS license with the new 8 digit SoftID.

http://www.roc-noc.com/pdf/R52N/R52n.pdf

The process is very simple, click on the Update Key button in Winbox license menu, and 802.11n support will become available and cards will appear in your Interface list.
A new key will be generated in our server, put into your account, and also in your router.
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Expect to see the cards showing up on the routerboard store shortly - http://www.routerboard.com/comparison.html
and no doubt at http://shop.duxtel.com.au shortly after :-)

I've already purchased a set of TP-Link 802.11n cards awaiting this release so will be doing some testing early next week and will report back on initial results.

Update: Not mentioned in the newsletter is the SMS Receiving support. You can now send sms's to a router (via 3g device) and have it run scripts/tool and respond.
Details - http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Sms

Regards,
Andrew Cox

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Oooo! nice.

On May 23rd, 2009 robert says:

Please build and test, I would dearly love to see two of these in action over distance. Specially some posts on the website of the project and a presentation at a members meeting. The first to do it will go down in CWN history...

First test results.

On May 25th, 2009 omegatron says:

First test with 802.11n enabled, running on 2 x RB411A boards.

There's 2 New tabs available on the wireless interface config page as well. No idea what they do just yet thou as this is the first time I've used anything beyond a simple home AP with 802.11n enabled.