It's a good idea to reboot ANYTHING that has been up that long before doing a 
firmware upgrade. 



On Sep 14, 2012, at 11:52, Travis Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry... I don't agree that Ubiquiti is in the same category as Cisco or 
> Motorola. I have Cisco switches and routers with 5+ YEARS of uptime. My 
> main Cisco switch is moving over 1500Mbps of graphic daily and has been 
> up for over 2+ years.
> 
> We have had many Ubiquiti radios that if they have more than 100 days 
> uptime, you have to reboot them BEFORE doing a firmware upgrade or else 
> when they come back they won't pass traffic (even though they are 
> connected via wireless).
> 
> Travis
> Microserv
> 
> On 9/14/2012 9:42 AM, Matt Hoppes wrote:
>> Greg,
>> I don't ever recall seeing bleeding-edge firmware with bugs released
>> from Ubiquiti.... unless you mean the betas?  But that's what they
>> are... betas.   Since 5.3.3 up to the current 5.5.2 release I haven't
>> had any problems with the final releases of software.
>> 
>> I can't count the number of Linksys, DLink, Hawking, whatever wireless
>> routers we've replaced for customers because they had problems with
>> their Internet.  We put in a Power AP-N, or an AirRouter and we never
>> hear from them again.
>> 
>> Truth be told... Ubiquiti equipment just runs... it doesn't need
>> rebooted.  It doesn't need babysat.  It just runs.
>> 
>> No I am not being paid to make these statements.  I just have many years
>> working in IT.  I've used Cisco, MikroTik, Alvarion, Motorola and now
>> Ubiquiti.  The Ubiquiti equipment just works.  I have a backhaul that's
>> been up for over a year with no reboots.... and no problems.
>> 
>> Matt Hoppes
>> Director of Information Technology
>> Indigo Wireless
>> +1 (570) 723-7312
>> 
>> On 9/14/12 11:20 AM, Greg Ihnen wrote:
>>> Are people going to be able to tolerate the bleeding-edge cycle of
>>> bugs/firmware updates that has been the history with their wireless gear?
>>> 
>>> Once again they're breaking new ground, this time with low cost/high pps
>>> throughput. Will they be able to make it powerful (rich feature set)
>>> /and/ easy?
>>> 
>>> It's going to have to be really good to make people switch.
>>> 
>>> Maybe they're going for a niche market of people who want only features
>>> relevant to the WISP market (bandwidth management, bandwidth accounting
>>> etc, vlans) and not people who want a do-all box like MT which has a lot
>>> of features most WISPs probably don't use (BGP and the forwarding
>>> protocols come to mind).
>>> 
>>> Greg
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Paolo Di Francesco
>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>     Hi all
>>> 
>>>     I see that Ubiquiti is launching a new product, a router.
>>> 
>>>     Well, personally, I do not think that it's a good idea, hard market and
>>>     I really do not see a real reason why I should buy the Ubiquiti router
>>>     instead of other well knows products
>>> 
>>>       From my perspective the value or a core/edge router is not only in the
>>>     number of packets, it's more into the number of bugs and instabilities.
>>> 
>>>     A new product has less or more bugs/instabilities than others working
>>>     since years in my network?
>>> 
>>>     I am not sure that I want to restart thinking new workarounds for a new
>>>     brand.
>>> 
>>>     Comments?
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
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