The mistery of Mikrotik 91xg 2HPnD

Which device is the Mikrotik 91xg 2HPnD?

It does exist, here is a photo:

I cannot find the 91xG anywhere, the only reference in the forum is this one:

but says little.

The most similarly named device I could find on mikrotik.com (among "archived") is this one:
https://mikrotik.com/product/RB911G-2HPnD
but the picture of the board of that page says "RB912G-2HPnD" not of a "RB911G-2HPnD".
And the board seems like NOT having the connector for the LTE modem.

The picture I posted comes from an e-bay offer for an used routerboard complete with case, antennas and Huawei LTE modem (which seems to be a LTE cat 4).

Since - maybe - I have to help a friend make a connection on a remote house, in practice only for a few surveillance cameras , I was considering it as the budget is - as often happens - on the cheap, the alternative - as a new device - would be the hAP ax lite LTE6, but that would cost roughly double the money.

I already have an old (PoE) 100 Mbit switch that I can use for the cameras (at no cost).

At least in planning, there should be 3 or 4 cameras, so the Ax lite could do by itself (using PoE injectors for the cameras).

I would like to understand the specs of this 91xg 2HPnD board before going one way or the other, any link/info?

Is this board RB912UAG-2HPnD,
https://mikrotik.com/product/RB912UAG-2HPnD
I do not have the 2GHz version, but the 5GHz version:

Is RB911 if the usb, the pci slot and the sim reader are not present,
is RS911U if only the USB is present,
etc.

Just one PCB for create different boards....

I understand, thanks :slightly_smiling_face:, but the photo here:
https://mikrotik.com/product/RB912UAG-2HPnD

is different from the one I posted, in that one (and in the one you posted), the:
RouterBOARD
91xG 2HPnd
routerboard.com
or
RouterBOARD
91xG 5HPnD
routerboard.com
are in the center of the board, on the image on Mikrotik site there is:
RouterBOARD
912G 2HnD
routerboard.com
near the top (and it is missing the P that is in the model name, 2HnD instead of 2HPnd.

Maybe different versions/revisions of the board?

Stil it seems to me a sloppy way of calling things and marking boards.

The one in the photo on the site looks like the second revision to me (/r2 at the end of the code serial number, for others reading the post)

while my photo is /<nothing> because in the first version they didn't write /rx

Very likely, so the only unresolved issue is the missing P.
But, out of curiosity, where are you reading the "/r2"?

The same boards were also used in the NetBox series at that time. Perhaps it was pulled from one of those? We'd mainly used RB953s from that era. But have a few RB911/RB912 boards in box someplace, if there is an actual purpose to inspect.

You can also use this to search, since I'm not sure all show up under products (even under archived):

at the end of serial number :wink:
Yes.. I write "code" on error...

Well, the serial Number WHERE on the image:

NO, this is a codebar for batches, the serial number is something like this:

without revision (batch 319, first release)

with revision (batch 821, release 2)

The reasons for an revision are often due to a shortage of specific components,
or an overabundance of others... or to correct electrical problems in the circuit discovered later.

Yep, so I didn't notice the /R2 because It Is nowhere to be found on Mikrotik's site, good.

The P Is also missing on the two label pictures you posted.

It must be something like the initial C when speaking Tuscan, some times there Is, some times It vanishes, some times It becomes an H. :wink:

( Come on, when I go to Rome or Milan, for example, they already take the piss out of me enough... :rofl: )

I've often bought the same product code, and it arrived with different MMCX connector distances...
Model with the same code but /r2... (some boards reached /r4, I don't remember others that were larger)
Antennas with boxes purchased from S.I.C.E. had a fixed distance... You know the blsphems...

The wireless portion of product code can contain none, 'H' for "higher power" or 'HP' for "highest power" designation (coming after digit which denotes frequency band). And really depends on wireless card built in. Perhaps /r2 comes with different wireless card which can do even higher power than the original RB912-2HnD.

Facts are:
there is a page on Mikrotik site:
httpx://mikrotik.com/product/RB912UAG-2HPnD
on that page there is an image of a board clearly marked as 912G 2HnD <- no P on the board

there is a page on Mikrotik site:
httpx://mikrotik.com/product/RB912UAG-5HPnD
on that page is an image of a board clearly marked as 912G 5HPnD

there is a page on Mikrotik site:
httpx://mikrotik.com/product/RB911G-5HPnD
on that page is an image of a board clearly marked as 912G 5HPnD <- 2 instead of 1

Something is off, the images are not corresponding to the product page and name.