Speaker 2
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Speaker 1
Yes, my name is Harold. I have a Linksys mesh router system, the MX5300. And I have a quick question. It's a mesh router. There's a 5.2 and 2.4. And then there's also a 5.2 channel for communication back and forth between the two routers. Is that correct? So every day, it loses that back channel. I don't know why. and I have to go back into the home page and hit C and a to establish that connection again. Is there Is there something that needs to be saved so that it doesn't do that? Okay. So you have you have a 5.2 band and a 2.4 band on your router. and then there's a 5.2 band, I guess, that communicates between the two mesh routers, correct? I have two routers, a master and a slave.
01:00
Speaker 2
Wait, wait, hold on. I'm not sure I understand, one more time. What's the problem? I'm going to get to mesh, right? What do you mean? How many nodes you have in total? Okay, good enough. Continued?
02:00
Speaker 1
[silence] Hello. [silence] So [silence] you [silence] you [silence] you go through the process of [silence] of [silence] uh [silence] [silence] configuring the second slave router [silence] or the [silence] the second router to the master router. [silence] Okay. [silence] And [silence] there's a [silence] C [silence] A [silence] button [silence] that you have to push on [silence] on the home screen, [silence] on your [silence] your laptop [silence] and that [silence] that establishes the connection between the [silence] the two routers. [silence] Okay. [silence] [silence] Every once in a while that [silence] connection goes away. [silence] And now, all of a sudden, [silence] when I'm in a far distance away, [silence] I'm using the 2.4 and [silence] on the tablet, it keeps [silence] getting [silence] uh [silence] trying to resume. [silence] Trying to resume. [silence] [silence] Okay. [silence] I want to know [silence] if there's something I [silence] I need [silence] to [silence] additionally [silence] set up [silence] on the router [silence] to keep that [silence] C [silence] A [silence] You can't do that. So, the, the two five, I've got two 5.2 channels and they're both named the same.
03:00
Speaker 2
I see. Um, so with regard to that, you can't, you can't do that. You can't, I mean, every time you log in to the web settings, you'll need to click the CA. However, that does not mean that it will separate or you cannot use the 5 gigahertz too. It's a backup of your 5 gigahertz one. It does not do that. Everything on the settings will remain the same. The purpose of that CA is for you to configure the settings of that or the channel or settings, security mode, something like that, on your Wi-Fi settings. But it does not separate it unless you name it different from the 5 gigahertz one.
04:00
Speaker 1
Are you telling me I shouldn't do that? Are you telling me that it those two should be named the same? You guess I don't understand but I'm not gonna just let me try to do some searching on the web then. I I don't know what else I can do.
05:00
Speaker 2
No. The mesh will work better if it's on combined network. So if they're using the same name, same password, it's best for your mesh to have that settings or set up. Correct. And that every time the the connection of the 5 gigahertz one, um have trouble connecting to the um internet, then it will jump to 5 gigahertz two, so that you'll have a better Wi-Fi signal strength or connection. Right. Instead of that, tell me about
05:00
Speaker 1
Okay, I all right. I have a, I have a mesh router in my, where my internet connection comes into the house. Okay, I have another mesh router halfway in the middle of my home. And about 30 ft away, I have a tablet set up to be able to connect to the 2.4 megahertz because that's its limitation. And then every once in a while on that tablet, when we're streaming a video from Fox News or CNN or and you know, whatever, all of a sudden the screen stops, the video and audio stop, and it says attempting to resume streaming, okay? I've done some checking with my.
06:00
Speaker 2
like is it dropping or or are you just worrying about the CA but because if that's the case don't worry about that.
06:00
Speaker 1
mobile phone to see the, uh, the Wi-Fi signal strength and it's good. But when I do a, a test, um, to check that channel, that 2.4 megahertz, the data rate goes down to about 14 or 15, uh, megabits per second instead of being in the 130 to 140. And when I go to the webpage for my Link Sys router, um, 192.168.1.1 and I'm looking at the the screen page, I only, under Wi-Fi settings, I'll only see two instead of three channels there. And I don't understand why. And then I have to push the C A button and that third channel comes back up. You're telling me I don't need to push that C A button?
07:00
Speaker 2
You do need to push that CI button if you want to configure the settings.
07:00
Speaker 1
That is, that is correct. It's coming from the a channel issue to the tablet? Yeah. Yes.
08:00
Speaker 2
the Wi-Fi setting of your bandwidth, 2.4, 5 and 6, or no, 5 GHz, sorry. But yeah, regarding with your problem, you are saying that you have a tablet that only support 2.4, correct? And so the, the, so the 5 MHz does not have something, something to do with your tablet then. So you need to focus on the 2.4. It could be a channel issue of the 2.4. No, wait, wait, you lost me there. So, um, on the router, there's 2.4, 5, one and 5, too. So currently, your, your tablet only support, I mean, your tablet only support 2.4. So you need to focus on the 2.4 bandwidth. Maybe the channel is not good. So you have to set
08:00
Speaker 1
I'm trying to think around it but that channel, but you need to wait and say, huck, so where do I change the channel in on the Wi-Fi settings of the router? can you watch? I'm. CA is not CA is not available right now. yes I am on wi-Fi Settings. I see the two i see it. which channel? says auto
09:00
Speaker 2
set that to a different channel maybe set it to channel 11 but you need to click the to be able to do that without clicking the to say you cannot change the channel manually in your mesh node you need to log into the web settings so where you see um okay just click CA and maybe it's gone okay it's it's probably already clicked so go to Wi-Fi settings Wi-Fi settings the router settings okay you see channel 2.4 gigahertz what's the channel right now.
09:00
Speaker 1
All right, so, it says you're updating Wi-Fi settings, hit yes, correct? Your router is applying channel change, channel action form may cause devices temporarily lose connectivity, this may take a few minutes, please... Okay. Channel 11, is that the best channel usually? Okay. All right. And what about, um, channel width? Leave that at auto? Okay. Okay. We'll see how that, how that works.
10:00
Speaker 2
okay you can set that to eleven just click the drop down arrow set to eleven observe the connection after that if it if it still are the same then try another channel mhm yeah usually yes mhm yeah do not do you want to do something on that channel with just a bit odd mhm all right uh you a body question anything else i can help you
10:00
Speaker 1
That's it, thank you very much for your help. You have a good day, thank you. [silence]
11:00
Speaker 2
So much for come. Yeah. Problem. Give us so back, okay? Okay, then. Mm. Bye-bye.
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