OK - ya’ll havent heard from me in a while ‘cause everything has been going so good!!!
I finally got my UB XR exchanges and am switching out all the SR’s as fast as possible.
Love the XR 2/5/9’s!!!
And - since the .46 update last year all my APs have been humming along quite smoothly - especially with the XR2s and 9s!!! TY UB - Mike and Big X 
But I have had this tiny little problem with the XR9s and the way MT handles the modulation with the noise of a Sprint/Nextel cell tower (high 800s → low 900 smhz). (Was using .50 at the time - 2 days ago - amazing the pain that can be shoehorned into 48 hrs.
I had read the forums - so I knew there might be a problem with 3.2 but I also needed the updated code for the XR9s.
I started the updates on the edge of our network with small hub APs to XR9 clients.
Worked Great!!! Lovin’ it!!!
Then I did what what no engineer should do after a day/night of no sleep and without a few days of watching the new system work.
I said what the hell - it looks great - what could go wrong?
Everybody with me???
You already know where this is going - right?
I put the new 3.2 on our file server and told the whole network to go get it. Now mind you - I’m trying to be humorous ‘cause I still haven’t been to bed and I’m in trying not to cry.
It all worked beautifully - all 200+ AP’s - routers - clients - I was so proud and to top it all off - it really performed better then ever. Gosh - I’m gonna go home and get some sleep and all our customers and support staff are gonna call me a hero?
But I had this primary tower 58s (2) that were not quite getting the throughput I wanted - 9am and I pushed the button one last time.
and it disappeared
Gone! not finding it with the winbox search - I mean - GONE!!!
Not only that one - (BTW - RB153 w/ XR5) but the secondary disappeared too as I was configuring it. Now most of our equipment hangs anywhere between 80 and 200 ft.
I was lucky - we hadn’t finished this tower and it was at 80 feet.
Ever climbed tower when you’ve had no sleep - 5 TIMES!@!
I discovered that the freq 5785 sticks and will crash the kernal - now I don’t claim to be a RF god like most of ya - I can not explain this - Normis
But I successfully killed it 4 times before I learned to use Neighbor viewer and login with my laptop from the top of the tower and repair the interfaces.
That was this afternoon around 1630hrs - by that time I had royally screwed up my topology and spent the next several hour driving on tower runs.
I also have several boards that spontaneouly reboot after the upgrade.
OK - I’m done with my story and I’m stickin’ to it!
All and all - the 3.2 really kicks ass - the features are awesome and I will be spending the few months learning it. I enjoy this part of the experience.
Looking forward to 3.3!!!
I have been in a similar boat..
I got the idea to upgrade the router at work from the house…
I had been running the newer version at home for over two weeks…
I uploaded it to the “data center” and it killed the VPN connection to the 80+ user remote site..
At the time, the data center for the entire company was running at a site 16 miles from all of the users. (exchange, acctg, databases etc)
I remembered that running two different versions when a IPSec link was not a good idea..
I uploaded the update to the remote site (located in a colocated secured data center in a “rent an office complex” 30 miles away)..
You can see where this one is headded…
The update killed the remote box…
In the car I went at 10PM… 1st to the data center… tweeks here… then downtown get a security guard to unlock the data center (after several phone calls) and got that router repaired and the link back up…
Then I realised the third site at our ISP colo cage was also “upsett” … 20 miles to that colo and bring that box online…
I should have known this would happen when I ginxed the whole darned thing when I told my wife, “I just need to update a few routers… No I dont have to go in to work to do it… I can do it frome here and I should only take about fifteen minuits…”
Murphy strikes again !!!
PS I have done other upgrades since then both local and remote and they have all gone smoothly (knock on wood)..
I think I just had to piss Mr. Murphy off with that “I got this” comment…
Oh the joys of running a network !!