Firmware update on lots of radios - Set up ?

[phonebuff]

Good Morning -

I am looking at doing a firmware update on between 100 and 150 phase II radios. A mix of SL & XPR 7550s.

So I am going to put up an RM Service which if I read correctly means I can do up to 16 Device Programers at a time.

My problem is I am having trouble visualizing this. Do I need a workstation, two 8-port active USB 2.0 hubs and sixteen cables ? Or Sixteen Laptops and sixteen cables ?

If it's one workstation, all the radios are still on the 192.168.10.1 so I am confused how the workstation will see all sixteen radios, and if it does
know how to mediate the "duplicate" IPs am I going to have to answer the Network prompt each time I connect a radio to the hub ?

Next question, I maybe having brain fade but I thought I saw somewhere, and can't find now, a Motorola part # for a jig to help with this ?

So thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to share there experience(s) with this task.

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[Fatboy]

It is 16 cables per Windows 7 machine.... You will have to read all of them, then write each radio with a unique IP adddress. Then you be able to write the firmware. If you have access to the serial number list, you can pre-load all of the read jobs. If not, then I would suggest one read computer and one write/firmware computer. 16 is a bunch, we typically never did more than 6-8 per machine, it ends up being a lot for one guy. FB