It looks like the RB750Gr2 is now EOL. Our latest Mikrotik shipment arrived and we received a new part # RB750Gr3. This is the 4th major revision in the RB750G family since it was announced in 2009.
October 2009 - RB750G
May 2011 - RB750GL
July 2015 - RB750Gr2 aka hEX
October 2016 - RB750Gr3 aka hEX
There is no RB750Gr3 data sheet available yet. A quick comparison looking with winbox shows:
RB750Gr2
CPU - MIPS 74Kc V5.0 720MHz Single Core
RouterOS Family MIPSBE (supported for the past 8 years - many products)
RAM - 64MB
Flash - 16MB
RB750Gr3
CPU - MIPS 1004Kc V2.15 880MHz (Quad Core - depth of multicore support not yet known)
RouterOS Family MMIPS (new as of RB750Gr3)
RAM - 256MB
Flash - 16MB
external micro SD slot and card support
RB750Gr3 ships with RouterOS version 6.36.1. The CPU is also a new MIPS variant (mmips) that just gained Mikrotik support so older RouterOS versions will not work with this model router. (mmips was just added to the RouterOS download section today.)
Ok I see that hEX is RB750Gr2… a little confusing, those marketing names, especially when there is
no 1:1 mapping between marketing names and technical names. Would it not be better to call it
“hEX plus” or something?
When you look at the cars - “BMW 320” marketing name also remains unchanged during the years, just car is different , and have different production code. Same happens here with “hEX”, it avoid lots of confusion about what to choose when old ones run out of the stock - sticking to same marketing name also gives a little bit easier time at customs and certifications, as you always can refer to previous model.
Of course it replaces it by the confusion what we will receive when we order hEX from a local supplier, and the complaints here that older firmware
that people have validated for use on their network cannot be used on newly ordered hEX routers.
(of course that already happened even when there was no drastic change in model…)
Well, it looks like an interesting router but we will probably have to wait a while before we can safely order it (without risk of getting a Gr2 instead)
I’d really like to buy this, but using the same model name is very annoying when you have to deal with distributors who aren’t aware of this or co-mingle their inventory. Same deal with the RB850Gx2, one version has HW encryption, one does not, but it’s impossible to tell from model name. It may be a long time before our local distributors sell out the RB750Gr2 stock, so I have no way of ordering one other than simply waiting and hoping their stock runs out .
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