MAC FOLKS MIGHT WANT TO HOLD OFF IF YOU DON"T HAVE A WINDOWS MACHINE TO RECOVER WITH
I'm on an Apple MacBook Pro. I've never had issues with the firmware upgrade process by itself--beta or otherwise--until now.
I backed up my network settings like I always do so I can re-import them after the firmware upgrade pretty much zeros them out.
But then things got a little scary.
The firmware upgrade process went fine as expected--but when I tried to re-import the saved settings, I kept getting re-routed back to the log-in screen--and anytime after re-logging in that I tried to navigate to the ''Tools'' page I got returned to the log-in over and over.
I was stuck. I tried several more times, seeing the ''storm clouds'' of hours of recovery time ahead of me gathering on the horizon. I was potentially bricked. I couldn't even back-install to the 1.31 firmware because that's on the ''Tools'' page too!
Needless to say, things got anxious.
As a last resort before phoning technical support on how to reset the router, I decided to try the Dell/Windows XP machine with MSIE. Well, while I didn't get constantly locked out like I did on the Mac, I did get some sort of error about the settings being un-importable. So, I re-did my settings from scratch on the Windows XP machine via MSIE.
So far, so good...
However--Somebody in the lab may want to experiment with upgrading the firmware using a Mac with either Safari or Firefox. While I'm willing to admit that ''it's just me'' it just might be the platform/web browser at issue--and some poor Mac user without a ''windows to break in case of emergency'' may be totally bricked.
Anyway, too late to play around with the SharePort to see if it maybe works but there's always tomorrow.