> there are bad news about RB600A. As everybody can read on MicroTik's > website, RB600A has suddenly been discontinued: > > http://www.routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=55 > > They also removed the case for this board. > > Why did this happen?
The board is a four year old design that was later reavealed by the chip maker that it could have been 2X the speed. MT suggest the RB800 but it costs more money and is indeed not binary compatible. The RB600A is a variation on a reference design that was modified for volume production. MT products change and are well below $100 for MIPS-based systems. As of last week, a vendor in the US and the MT office in Riga had about 20 units at reasonable prices. Mail me off-list for details on any of these points. Actually, maybe it was space aliens. Or at least illegal alien Latvians living in Chicago... Michael
