Hello fellas,
How are you updating all your field subsciber units (ie, RB112’s) en masse? Before we switched from Motorola Canopy when there was an update, we could schedule every subsciber to automatically update to the latest firm upon connecting to the AP . Does this MT community have something similar? Surely I wouldn’t have to upgrade 300 Modules by individually FTP’ing the firm?
Cheers! 
I think you can now do it with the Dude.
I am wondering why you would drop Canopy for Mikrotik?
Well, I’m doing it the hard way now, and I just can’t stand it any more!!!
Well, I really haven’t dropped Cnopy. I use both. It really comes down to cost. A rb112, CM9, rootennas is about $130 less that a subscriber module, plus I have a lot more control over the clients use, including virus filters, multiple bandwidth queues throughout the day, etc. But I do find some things cumbersome with Mikrotik, especially the updates… and there are so many darn many of them.
Do you find the real world speeds to your client better with MT or Canopy?
Are the connections as good with MT, such as TX/RX, LOS, NLOS, Long shots?
Or are they about the same?
Sorry for so many questions, it’s just that I’m thinking about using Canopy in some of our network because of the noise.
I’m sure this could start another thread, but in short, I find the advantages of Motorola over mikrotik are:
Disadvantages
Hope that helps. Now, any more suggestions for mass upgrading?
Your best bet would be to use Dude or write a perl script that could do it for you.
There are two ways:
1)
Set each client to Adding Package Source from a MT server
http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/system/upgrade.php
Set a script on each client that download the file and reboot at specified time of each day or week.
Upload on dude the file to upgrade
on the dude software go to device / routerOS / group
set to upgrade for the specified group.
but this upgrade immediatelly to the devices.
dude is your solution.
if you explore dude you could find out, that there are a lot of useful things.
Hello
Where on Dude do you upload the file?
Thanks 
YappaDappa,
What distance and what ping times you get with motorola canopy ?
This is sooooo going to get deleted 
open dude - Files → packages tab then add package file you wish to upgrade
then click on router in our network map and upgrade, and there is option to upgrade router.
you can create router groups and then upgrade whole group.
Thanks
I also posted in the dude forum wondering teh diff between upgrade and force upgrade, did anyone know?
Thanks for the reply
Ive got almost 200 to do before they expire
Janis, will this technique work to upgrade a 2.9.38 unit to 3.0beta4?
best regards/ldv
underneaths this feature is simple ftp upgrade procedure - packets are uploaded to router and router rebooted,
if that works then this feature should work also. but there where problems with downgrading from beta to stable on RB500 (in beta2 if i remember correctly)
you can endup with netinstalling router
I don’t use Canopy for my network, so I don’t have much experience with it, but I’ve seen the ping thing people are talking about here. Canopy at 5.7GHz at cca 10-20km has quite unstable ping running from few ms up to 20-30ms. With MT I have very stable pings at distance of 20km, cca 1ms always.
But, this is not the only advantage of MT, price of Canopy is horrible.
YappaDappa,
in this forum I read that canopy system create a lot of problem to other WIFI standard equipment include the Mikrotik APs, also they not have interferene issue, or manage better the interferences.
Apart the price, but if today you have 1 Milion$ to spent in wireless equipment 
, why you do not choise the canopy, based on your experience?
I know that this post is out of your topic, if possible you can send me direct email or we can open a discussion topic specified to hardware equipment.
thanks
Max
let’s start a new thread
What is your configuration?
best regards/ldv