411ar or 711a is expensive and card is only 100mw...

Expensive? as compared to what? ..
Given the feature set and capabilities RBs are extremely cheap... Since we changed our entire infrastructure to MikroTik our company has seen dramatic savings.. And increased capabilities..

/interface vlan add interface=ether1 vlan-id=1 name=vlan1 /interface vlan add interface=ether1 vlan-id=2 name=vlan2 /interface vlan add interface=ether1 vlan-id=3 name=vlan3 /interface vlan add interface=ether1 vlan-id=4 name=vlan4 /interface bridge add name=bridge1 comment="Service A" /i...

Me and Tom were neighbors in the MTCTCE class in dallas...

I actually wish I could have held off a month on my latest RB1000 purchase... Hey Tom!!! Tom didn't know about it, the product will be revealed at the MUM. All anyone knows is the name. How do you even know it will be comparable with RB1000 in any way? I think you mis-understood the tone of my mess...

Some sort of Local Echo configured in your telnet client?

Would like to beta here too...

I have running:
~100 493/493AHs
5 RB1000Us
2 RB600s
3 RB433s
1 450G
6 RouterOS x86 licensed non-routerboard systems

Most running 4.5 some running 3.x (3.11-> 3.30)

I actually wish I could have held off a month on my latest RB1000 purchase...

Hey Tom!!!