Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Hi, I've got one of these little beauties (RB951ui-2HD) at my home for my QOS and L3 load balancing. I'm curious, only recently, when any traffic goes through the device at over 10Mbps there's a noise which sounds a lot like a spinning hard drive under heavy load. Has anyone noticed this/is this normal? I'm not overly concerned, just a little curious. Right now it's running PCC with failover like a champ, I'd only wish I could do PCC and PCQ.. CPU is not even going past 30% Cheers, Andrew.
Generally a noise like this is from the power regulation circuits - higher load would equal more power draw, more stress on the power regulation, more noise. In some cases, it can mean that it is going to fail early, but it can usually just be ignored. -----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Friday, 6 June 2014 1:29 PM To: Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD Hi, I've got one of these little beauties (RB951ui-2HD) at my home for my QOS and L3 load balancing. I'm curious, only recently, when any traffic goes through the device at over 10Mbps there's a noise which sounds a lot like a spinning hard drive under heavy load. Has anyone noticed this/is this normal? I'm not overly concerned, just a little curious. Right now it's running PCC with failover like a champ, I'd only wish I could do PCC and PCQ.. CPU is not even going past 30% Cheers, Andrew.
I agree with Thomas - sounds a lot like power caps starting to fail. If it continues for more than 1 week, submit it to RMA - if you bought it from DuxTel, start with http://duxtel.com/rma Cheers! Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Friday, 6 June 2014 1:29 PM To: Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Hi,
I've got one of these little beauties (RB951ui-2HD) at my home for my QOS and L3 load balancing.
I'm curious, only recently, when any traffic goes through the device at over 10Mbps there's a noise which sounds a lot like a spinning hard drive under heavy load. Has anyone noticed this/is this normal?
I'm not overly concerned, just a little curious. Right now it's running PCC with failover like a champ, I'd only wish I could do PCC and PCQ.. CPU is not even going past 30%
Cheers, Andrew.
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Thanks for the responses, I did get it from DuxTel so I may consider that RMA as it's getting fairly noisy. Lucky I have a bunch of others to replace it in the interim, just no wifi on them On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
I agree with Thomas - sounds a lot like power caps starting to fail.
If it continues for more than 1 week, submit it to RMA - if you bought it from DuxTel, start with http://duxtel.com/rma
Cheers!
Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Friday, 6 June 2014 1:29 PM To: Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Hi,
I've got one of these little beauties (RB951ui-2HD) at my home for my QOS and L3 load balancing.
I'm curious, only recently, when any traffic goes through the device at over 10Mbps there's a noise which sounds a lot like a spinning hard drive under heavy load. Has anyone noticed this/is this normal?
I'm not overly concerned, just a little curious. Right now it's running PCC with failover like a champ, I'd only wish I could do PCC and PCQ.. CPU is not even going past 30%
Cheers, Andrew.
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Here's something interesting. We just sent a replacement router to another customer who complained about 'ticking capacitors' only for him to take it out of the box, fire it up and get exactly the same sounds from the replacement. On a hunch, he enabled 'silent boot mode' (which simply disables the beeper unit I believe) and all ticking disappeared :-D Perhaps try this on your unit - maybe there is something funny happening with the RF in and around that unit? We received a report from another guy who had RB912 with internal antennas that were aligned to almost make contact with the beeper unit. Until the antennas were moved a few mm farther away from it, that beeper also ticked away like a dodgy capacitor ;) Perhaps try moving your router around a bit might help work out if it is something similar to that? Cheers, Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Monday, 9 June 2014 12:06 PM To: MikroTik Australia Public List Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Thanks for the responses,
I did get it from DuxTel so I may consider that RMA as it's getting fairly noisy. Lucky I have a bunch of others to replace it in the interim, just no wifi on them
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
I agree with Thomas - sounds a lot like power caps starting to fail.
If it continues for more than 1 week, submit it to RMA - if you bought it from DuxTel, start with http://duxtel.com/rma
Cheers!
Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Friday, 6 June 2014 1:29 PM To: Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Hi,
I've got one of these little beauties (RB951ui-2HD) at my home for my QOS and L3 load balancing.
I'm curious, only recently, when any traffic goes through the device at over 10Mbps there's a noise which sounds a lot like a spinning hard drive under heavy load. Has anyone noticed this/is this normal?
I'm not overly concerned, just a little curious. Right now it's running PCC with failover like a champ, I'd only wish I could do PCC and PCQ.. CPU is not even going past 30%
Cheers, Andrew.
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Hi Mike, I enabled silent boot a long time ago as the beep was always loud and surprising. I've also tried moving my router around, not much luck. I was going to open it but haven't got the time right now, nor want to go against any warranty :) I've got an RMA ticket open too, so I'll play the waiting game for now. Cheers. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
Here's something interesting.
We just sent a replacement router to another customer who complained about 'ticking capacitors' only for him to take it out of the box, fire it up and get exactly the same sounds from the replacement.
On a hunch, he enabled 'silent boot mode' (which simply disables the beeper unit I believe) and all ticking disappeared :-D
Perhaps try this on your unit - maybe there is something funny happening with the RF in and around that unit? We received a report from another guy who had RB912 with internal antennas that were aligned to almost make contact with the beeper unit. Until the antennas were moved a few mm farther away from it, that beeper also ticked away like a dodgy capacitor ;)
Perhaps try moving your router around a bit might help work out if it is something similar to that?
Cheers, Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Monday, 9 June 2014 12:06 PM To: MikroTik Australia Public List Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Thanks for the responses,
I did get it from DuxTel so I may consider that RMA as it's getting fairly noisy. Lucky I have a bunch of others to replace it in the interim, just no wifi on them
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
I agree with Thomas - sounds a lot like power caps starting to fail.
If it continues for more than 1 week, submit it to RMA - if you bought it from DuxTel, start with http://duxtel.com/rma
Cheers!
Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Friday, 6 June 2014 1:29 PM To: Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Hi,
I've got one of these little beauties (RB951ui-2HD) at my home for my QOS and L3 load balancing.
I'm curious, only recently, when any traffic goes through the device at over 10Mbps there's a noise which sounds a lot like a spinning hard drive under heavy load. Has anyone noticed this/is this normal?
I'm not overly concerned, just a little curious. Right now it's running PCC with failover like a champ, I'd only wish I could do PCC and PCQ.. CPU is not even going past 30%
Cheers, Andrew.
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Hi! Turns out it was the other way around - other guy says that it made sounds with silent mode turned ON :-o Turn silent mode of, and.. well... it's silent. I'm not suggesting that it happens as a general rule, but the report received back was that when he received the replacement, then copied over the config, it made exactly the same sounds until silent boot mode was disabled. Go figure. In the end, he returned the replacement unit - is quite happy with the original 951G now :-D Cheers! Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Saturday, 14 June 2014 1:43 PM To: MikroTik Australia Public List Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Hi Mike,
I enabled silent boot a long time ago as the beep was always loud and surprising. I've also tried moving my router around, not much luck. I was going to open it but haven't got the time right now, nor want to go against any warranty :)
I've got an RMA ticket open too, so I'll play the waiting game for now.
Cheers.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
Here's something interesting.
We just sent a replacement router to another customer who complained about 'ticking capacitors' only for him to take it out of the box, fire it up and get exactly the same sounds from the replacement.
On a hunch, he enabled 'silent boot mode' (which simply disables the beeper unit I believe) and all ticking disappeared :-D
Perhaps try this on your unit - maybe there is something funny happening with the RF in and around that unit? We received a report from another guy who had RB912 with internal antennas that were aligned to almost make contact with the beeper unit. Until the antennas were moved a few mm farther away from it, that beeper also ticked away like a dodgy capacitor ;)
Perhaps try moving your router around a bit might help work out if it is something similar to that?
Cheers, Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Monday, 9 June 2014 12:06 PM To: MikroTik Australia Public List Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Thanks for the responses,
I did get it from DuxTel so I may consider that RMA as it's getting fairly noisy. Lucky I have a bunch of others to replace it in the interim, just no wifi on them
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Mike Everest <mike@duxtel.com> wrote:
I agree with Thomas - sounds a lot like power caps starting to fail.
If it continues for more than 1 week, submit it to RMA - if you bought it from DuxTel, start with http://duxtel.com/rma
Cheers!
Mike.
-----Original Message----- From: Public [mailto:public-bounces@talk.mikrotik.com.au] On Behalf Of Andrew Lau Sent: Friday, 6 June 2014 1:29 PM To: Public@talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] Spinning disk like noise on RB951ui-2HnD
Hi,
I've got one of these little beauties (RB951ui-2HD) at my home for my QOS and L3 load balancing.
I'm curious, only recently, when any traffic goes through the device at over 10Mbps there's a noise which sounds a lot like a spinning hard drive under heavy load. Has anyone noticed this/is this normal?
I'm not overly concerned, just a little curious. Right now it's running PCC with failover like a champ, I'd only wish I could do PCC and PCQ.. CPU is not even going past 30%
Cheers, Andrew.
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