I just saw this new plastic-molded RB750G with 5 Port Gigabit and 680MHz CPU! There is not a single mention of it anywhere in the mikrotik website or forum. Has anyone actually used one of these yet?!?
They just arrived yesterday and we ordered them the day they were announced to distributors. So don’t expect any real world experience other than “yes, I touched one, I plugged it in and it works”.
What is so wrong with that? Surely it is better than what UBNT does… announce products months before they become available and then keep the supply so short that people are calling every dealer looking for inventory and creating false demand.
IMHO Ideally MT should announce them to the distributors as they become available for shipping and to the public a week or two later so they can actually order from their favorite supplier. That is how MT has worked on the past few product releases. Some of us ordered the day that they were announced so we would have stock available when the public finds out about them.
That means a new MT newsletter should be coming out next week. Normis?
I looked briefly yesterday. Both of the VLSICs have Atheros part numbers on them and stick-on heat sinks. Then there is a single RAM IC and a single Flash IC. I suspect this is a continuation of the cost reduced RB750 design. It looks like the switch chip functionality is integrated into one of the Atheros chips instead of using a separate IC Plus switch chip like the RB450 and RB450G use.
But then they already have one with 128MB RAM and 512MB flash and a Level 5 license. It is called the RB450G. The RB700 series are the cheap plastic or entry level versions.
Tom is right, plus - even with the RAM that is has, the throughput is astonishing. Tom has the brochure at hand (i’m at home), maybe you can post the values
We’re already using 450G and very happy with that. We can not user metarouter in 32Meg and that’s the problem for 750G (We tried on Routerboard 450). Also price wise 750G is cheaper with it’s cute case and he has a happy power adapter in it’s box.
I don’t know anything more than what was released at USA MUM in the Mikrotik brochure. That is where the info on our web site came from. They usually announce new products to distributors when we can place an order and that hasn’t happened yet.