I’ve been running 3.30 on several AP’s because if I upgrade I drop clients that previously had 24mb + high CCQ links. I never have quite sorted out what the problem was.
Yesterday I had a few minor catastrophes, during one of them I had to revert my main tower to an older backup config. v4.17 was saved to the Routerboard so I could upgrade it next time traffic slowed down (ha!).
After it reverted to an old config and upgraded to 4.17 I had the direct opposite of my past experience happen. One of the CPE I was going to adjust yesterday morning before everything went south, signal was -83 to -95, 1 to 2mb, CCQ in the single digits. After the AP started up with 4.17 the customer has a pretty steady -84 with a 24 to 36mb connection, high CCQ.
Spring tree growth has been kicking my ass this year. Signals will go from -75 to -85 almost literally overnight. I think wifi may help them grow faster than the sun, lol.
I’m in the midwest where summer showed up around February. Trees are filling out fast. Gotta make sure to account for them during the winter installs.
I have 40 AP’s/PtP’s running ROS.
I have upgraded 11 of them to 5.14 with no problems. I upgraded all the clients to 5.14 or newest firmware if client was not ROS prior to upgrading the AP’s. No problems worth noting.
I still have 3.28 running on 3 PtP’s, 4.5 on a dual nstreme PtP. Working fine and no plans to update.
One of the AP’s had some wds links and upgraded from 5.4 to 5.14 no problem.
The rest of the AP’s & PtP’s are running 5.4 or 5.5. I’m working on upgrading the AP’s to 5.14 but I’m not excited about upgrading PtP’s. I’ll do those when I’m on site, just in case things go *&@!#
When I upgrade the clients I’ve been making sure that wireless data rates is set to Advanced. Most of them default to it with the upgrade but not all. Other than that, all has been going well with upgrades.
I’m in Alabama. Everything started turning green here in February. Everything shot up about a foot in the past two weeks.
I’ve had pretty good luck this time with upgrades. Could be because I’ve tuned the network more, better signal for most folks, but the main problem customers I had before are working fine now with no changes. I may have stopped trying before MT got ROS to 4.17 tho.
v5.11 is working quite well on a few of my shots. Takes a few minutes to dial up the speed, but it doesn’t fluctuate as much under load as it once did.
I had an access point fail after a v5 upgrade yesterday. I have it connected to my laptop right now. Its funny how many of these I do without a problem only to have an AP that is a 40 mile drive go out after an update.
My climber found a problem with it once he got up there, so it was going to have issues with the feed at some point.
Same here. Been liberally upgrading to 5.14 with Ap’s and backhauls. No known issues. Pretty sure from 3.30 to 5.x there were a few major revisions to the wireless package. I think there is better wireless performance with the higher firmwares.
