Apple Time Capsule 3TB firmware upgrade 7.7.2 will not accept "&" in wifi password.

Recently bought 2 Apple Time Capsules to backup my laptops, macs and so on. Installation was easy, I could easily connect them to my existing wifi router in 5 minutes.
But, they stopped working 3 days ago and I was surprised why I could not see both of them on network.
My Seagate's GoFlex Home works beautifully in every aspect. So, I thought there is no reason that both the capsules are not working any more.
I spent whole evening to find the problem. And, the problem was that my router's wifi password had "&" in password characters. While, "&" worked perfectly in firmware 7.7.1, both capsules could not connect anymore because they upgraded themselves to 7.7.2. So, I removed "&" from my router password and reconfigured both the capsules and they worked like a charm.
I love them because I can put them anywhere in the house and connect to them wirelessly from any device, watch movies and so on.
Just wanted to tell my "&" experience and help, just in case someone gets lost with the same problem.
Long live Apple! Miss you Steve.

My continual refrain in these forums is that Apple now is using SMB networking.. Mavericks is SMB by default.
See http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/06/11/apple-shifts-from-afp-file-sharing-to- smb2-in-os-x-109-mavericks
The rules for SMB are much tighter and people are continuing to have issues because the Apple Setup is allowing and indeed defaulting still to names with spaces and non-alphanumeric characters.
Although the rules are not as tight as this.. my rule of thumb is short.. no more than 20 characters.. 10 even better.. no spaces and pure alphanumeric. For the least issues with networks.
Passwords should be 10-20 character mix of upper and lower case with numbers.. ie still pure alphanumeric.
All names and passwords should follow.. except if you are really paranoid you can use passwords longer than 20 characters. 

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