Well, the TEquipment news explains my recent bad dealings with them. I ordered an SDG2042X from them recently (would have ordered from Saelig, as usual, but tempted by the TEquipment discount). Three days later, it still hadn't shipped, so I called and was told it would ship that very day. They offered to split 2-day shipping (costing me an extra $25), so I would have it on Friday. Of course, they didn't ship it out until the next day, so I didn't get it by Friday, like I paid for. I thought about contacting TEquipment to try getting my $25 back, but after this recent news, and the way I got lied to, I won't be buying from them any more. I've never had a problem with Saelig.
On top of my bad experience, I see that I got an early piece of hardware. They must have dug up some very old stock to sell me one. They should have been honest and just told me that they could not fullfill my order.
I got HW: 01-00-00-22-00. Are there any problems that I should know about? Does anyone know the difference to the latest hardware? I have only used some basic functions so far, so I don't know if all is OK. I did flash the 16R firmware. Haven't done the recent firmware yet.