I have dozens of MikroTik routers at work, about 100 pcs. in total, different models bought over the past 15 years.
More than 20x cAP ac (RBcAPGi-5acD2nD)
Bought new 3x cAP XL ac (RBcAPGi-5acD2nD-XL)
The problem is that all 3 new cAP XL ac routers in RouterOS and Winbox are displayed as regular cAP ac without XL in the model name. Factory images of XL routers are version 3.43, which is strange.
Look at the screenshots for comparison (MAC addresses and serial numbers are hidden).
So, I have questions:
Is it OK situation or not? Do I have refurbished units or repaired with replaced motherboards from regular ac models?
What is the reason of creating a new model with exactly the same name? Not a very big deal but this leads to confusion when searching for the right router among hundred of others. It also can potentially bring some future problems in case of flashing via NetInstall, etc.
They have little to do with actual manufacturing date of the routers, it only says that a device with those OUI's/MAC addresses cannot have been put in commerce BEFORE the registration date.
It is not at all specific to cap or cap XL, it is only a possible way to distinguish between two sets of devices, evidently manufactured and sold starting from a different year, because you have this difference in the devices you have.
The cap XL AC has been announced in september 2021, so probably available around end of 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7aAOpmC1bo
so there are certainly many of them sporting the "old" CC:2D:E0, but if yours are all D4:01:C3 they are from some newer batches after december 2023.
In your screenshot you somehow inverted the devices, the one on the left is the cap ac XL (by its serial HGM09 ...) and has factory firmware 6.49.13, the one on the right is the cap ac (by its serial 817E....) and has factory firmware 3.43.
Which says nothing with the x, we need three bytes to search for a OUI, however (at fifth try ) 18:FD:74 is registered to Routerboard as well, on 03 March 2022 https://maclookup.app/search/result?mac=18:FD:74
From holvoetn screenshot I see that his XLs all have the same RBcAPGi-5acD2nD naming as my ones. So this is “normal” situation for this model.
I still think its pretty bad idea by MikroTik to have same names for different models even if the only difference is another case and additional antennas on pigtails.
jaclaz, yes, you are right, I changed System-Identity to know which router is where, they both where laying on my desk for configuration… and I make a mistake ))) One more argument why this is bad idea.
Yep, I think we could open a whole new forum dedicated to the inconsistencies in Mikrotik naming of devices, the different ways a same device is identified in different parts of the documentation etc..
Ideally, from MikroTik team or from people who also own XL ac model.
) 18:FD:74 is registered to Routerboard as well, on 03 March 2022