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Excellent, NEW TOYS!!!
It is time to put down all ammunition* and get your Groove on. 
Nice, new routerboard website… would be nice if the info of the website would also be updated.
Price comparison sheet is not updated. No new boards mentioned. Top of the range is rb1000 which is in fact EOL.
Same for “RouterBOARD Selection Guide”
“Product Benchmarks” need more explanation. rb1000 is same as rb1100AH at 1333MHz and 1066Mhz but rb1100 is same as rb800 at 800Mhz?
And rb1200 is measured at 1000Mhz.?
This last table needs good explanation. It is very confusing. Is rb1200 now faster than 1100/1000 or not?
People like me just want to know what is the best and fastest board. On the forum it is said rb1100 is faster than rb1200?
Can we expect updated/improved SXT CPE soon? (Bigger gain (=bigger size, no problem) and better shielding against interferences (metal coat / paint on inside of housing)
RB1200 is not supposed to be faster. It’s supposed to be lower cost than the other models.
“Product Benchmarks” need more explanation. rb1000 is same as rb1100AH at 1333MHz and 1066Mhz but rb1100 is same as rb800 at 800Mhz? And rb1200 is measured at 1000Mhz.?
yes/yes/yes because it is 1000MHz
Well, that is not helping:
Is rb1200 now same speed as rb1100 or is it even slower? At its default configuration.
If rb1100 is same as rb800 at 800Mhz, what about 1066 and 1333Mhz? Or is the rb800Mhz not able to run higher speeds?
The bottom line is buyer needs a simple diagram on price/capacity for all present sold routerboards in default mode. The Price performance comparison sheet is a good example but outdated…
If I go to the car dealer to buy a car I compare with other car. Both on default options and price. That one of the cars has the option to fine-tune it into a -is not interesting for common buyer..
bmw maybe is more powerful than lexus, but lexus is more expensive anyway.
RB1200 has a completely new CPU, that’s why you have to look at the benchmarks, which you already saw. Compare performance, it is lower than RB1100 like you already observed. It is also cheaper.
So it all makes sense
RB1200 → RB1100 → RB1100AH
(both price and performance)
OK, thanks. Please update the Price performance comparison.pdf on the website. Than we can all see this without searching the forum for answers…
(I ask the questions but that doesn’t mean many others don’t have the same question. A new website was made public by the news letter. Why not also update all information? A good looking website supplying incomplete and partieally outdated data is no use… You guys can do better… 
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I’m curious (regarding the Groove): how does 1x1 constitute MIMO?
What are the MTUs of the new products, specifically the RB1200?
I would also like to know this.
Right now only RB435G is listed at http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Maximum_Transmission_Unit_on_RouterBoards#MAC.2FLayer-2.2FL2_MTU
i’m very curious too .
did the groove support WDS ?
and is the antenna included ?
thx…
Groove is a fully featured RouterBOARD product, so Yes, it will support WDS, as well as all other RouterOS features.
The Groove features an N-male Connector, and is shipped with the Groove unit, Pole mount loops, and PoE injector. No antenna is included.
See the groove, and download the datasheets here:
Thanks to whoever put the RB1200 up, though the Groove still isnt there…
I also notice the RB750GL…
What is L?
I wonder if there will be a RB433G in a pipeline?
Another thing, what is the minimum version of RouterOS that will run on these products?
Because to be quite honest I would rather stay away from version 5 for a few months.
everything is preinstalled with v5 and it runs great on all our products. if there are some special cases still unresolved for v5, they are not more than there are for v4.17
Unfortunately that does not do it for me since my place of employment has a policy that currently prohibits the use of RouterOS 5 in production environments.
So I need to know: am I going to have any nasty surprises trying to run v4 on the new products?
Well, if Ferrari designs a new F1 engine to run with the latest developed fuel your boss want to buy that engine but only allow you to run it on petrol left over from last century? I think that policy sucks imho!
And if you want to know if it can, try it.