Hello,
I am new here, and new to routerboard/routerOS, so first, hello to all. For a little background, I am not an IT pro, but I am administering small size networks on oil rigs, which have severe bandwidth limitations and far too many users (including the usual bandwidth hogs who spend their lives on YouTube or downloading TV series)... I've been using dd-wrt so far with moderate success.
I am pretty excited about the Microtik products because I believe they can possibly solve problems I have been having for a while, so I am ready to take the jump and order a 450G for testing. I found some nicely discounted ones at third party resellers, however, it would appear that they run an older version of routerOS (v3). The reseller claims that the 450G comes with a license level 4, "freely upgradeable to a level 5 license by running winbox". In that case, according to the wiki, it would mean that I can upgrade from v3 to v5.7 for free, but no more free upgrades after that, am I right (two versions jump)? If that is that case, I would obviously prefer to give up the discount and buy a board loaded with v5 and get free upgrades until v7.
Now I just did a search on this forum, and I see that upgrade from v3 to v5.7 is a "free upgrade". So at this point I am seriously confused and I prefer to ask: if I buy a board configured with routerOS v3 and a level 5 license, will I get free upgrades until (and including) v7