We have a few clients using rb133s with an xr9. Had good success with 2.9.50 on all clients at the same time. Naturally, we tried out a few of the 3.0 rc’s when they became available but they seemed to become unstable (random disconnect/reconnect) and slowed down the 2.9.50 clients. We brushed it aside as something that might be worked out later and downgraded back to 2.9.50.
However when we tried the full 3.0 version on a few people, the same thing happened - disconnects and general slowdown of the other clients.
Is anyone aware of 2.9.50 and 3.x not “playing nicely” together? I can provide other data about the configuration if necessary, but I just thought I’d see if anyone had something like this happen to them. Worst comes to worst, we’ll happily stay at 2.9.50 for a while. Thanks!
We have the same problem, but on both side we have OS 3.0 with XR5 cards. We send supout to MT last nigth. Very unstable, on 2.9.50 works nice with no problem.
Ran into the sorta same thing,
replaced out a 532 with a daughter card with 3 cm9s, it had a problem with one card when temperature outside was below freezing it would make the 532 reboot.
Replace it with one 333 runnin 3.0 and 1 new cm9 plus the 2 known good cards.
This resulted in a bad change of signals clients see the AP fine but the AP sees the clients at a -10 loss of signal example= before the change signals were -60tx and -60rx, Now it is -70tx and -60tx. All clients see the same difference.
I dont know what to try next except change back to the 532 setup?
clients are running 29.50
Advice Welcome!
Thanks!
Already did that before, wish it was that easy! when I get back in town from a road trip I will try bumping up the client to 3.0 and see if it yield the same results. If it fixes the issue I will upgrade the rest. if not I will go back to the 532 setup again. This has been one of those pita situations. Time will tell!
The 900MHz band will not work unless all devices are 3.x or 2.9.xx. You can’t mix and match in this band, I believe it’s because they’re using a newer wireless driver in 3.xx.
2.4GHz seems to be backwards compatible, I can connect to a 3.xx AP with 2.9.xx clients, with no apparent problems.
5GHz is also backwards compatible with 2.9.xx clients.
The only band that doesn’t support backwards compatibility with 2.9.x is the 900Mhz.
EDIT: The test equipment I was using had a problem with the CM9 card, replaced and all was well. I retract the previous post.
5GHz seems to have the same problems as the 900MHz band. No backwards compatibility, I haven’t tested this throughly, but I upgraded my test AP to 3.1 recently and now I can’t connect with 2.9.xx clients to the 5GHz or 900MHz. Upgrading the 900MHz clients to 3.xx fixed this problem. Haven’t tried upgrading the 5GHz clients, but I’m confident an upgrade would allow those devices to reassociate.