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Call Start
2026-06-12 21:57
Duration
22m 27s
Contact
Patricia Bunnell
Issue Type
Internet/WAN Setup
V2 Outcome
Unresolved
V2 Band
Needs Improvement

Agent & Case Context

Agent
Aysah Bagumbaran
HappyFox Case
#LTS00133323
Support Country
United States
Product Family
ROUTERS
CSAT
Sentiment Trajectory
Ticket subject: EA7300 reconfiguration
Transcript quality flagged: the ASR/quality-validation pipeline detected and excluded unreliable transcript segments from grading (2 hallucinated segments). Excluded from aggregate KPIs — treat remaining scores and transcript with caution.
Auto-Zero applied: Avoidance/Evasion: agent refused to provide free troubleshooting for an out-of-warranty device despite policy requiring best-effort support, pushing paid service instead of conducting reasonable diagnostics.

V1 Rubric Scores

Resolution3.00/5
Accuracy4.00/5
Communication3.00/5
Protocol2.00/5
Efficiency2.00/5
Overall3.0/5

V2 Rubric Scores

Resolution0.94/5
Technical1.56/5
Communication2.50/5
Ownership1.00/5
EscalationN/A
Customer Exp1.79/5
Overall0.0% (-60.0)

V2 Grader Summary

The agent failed to resolve the issue, avoided providing free troubleshooting due to OOW status—contrary to policy—and offered only paid support and email guidelines. While one diagnostic suggestion was made, the agent did not conduct a full investigation, take ownership, or reduce customer effort, resulting in an unresolved outcome with critical failure due to evasion.

V1 Case Analysis

Customer reported no internet; router blinking. Out-of-warranty EA7300. Agent advised direct modem test, offered paid support, and will email reconfiguration guide. No fix achieved.

Troubleshooting Steps
  • Advised to connect a desktop directly to the Spectrum modem to verify upstream internet.
  • Offered paid-support session for full router reconfiguration.
  • Promised to email a self-help guide for router setup.
Key Observations
  • Agent correctly identified the router model (EA7300) and captured the serial number after initial transcription confusion.
  • Warranty status was accurately communicated as expired, aligning with KB guidance for out-of-warranty support.
  • Agent suggested a valid isolation step: direct modem test to rule out ISP/modem issues.
  • Agent recognized that the customer could receive emails, indicating partial internet access, and adjusted guidance accordingly.
  • Call ended with a clear self-help path despite no technical resolution, which is acceptable for out-of-warranty calls per KB guidance.
  • Agent directed customer to support.linksys.com and the AI assistant, which is a valid fallback resource.
Positive Highlights
  • Accurately identified the router model and captured the serial number after clarification.
  • Correctly communicated warranty status and support policy, aligning with KB guidance.
  • Suggested a technically valid method to isolate the issue (direct modem test), which is a recommended first step per the KB.
  • Recognized that the customer could receive emails, indicating some level of internet access, and adjusted guidance accordingly.
  • Provided a fallback self-help path by offering to email setup instructions when paid support was not confirmed, which is acceptable for out-of-warranty calls.
  • Directed customer to support.linksys.com and the AI assistant, which are valid resources per KB guidance.
Agent Errors / Gaps
  • Initial delay in capturing serial number and email due to transcription confusion, though these were eventually clarified.
  • Offered paid support before performing any diagnostic steps, which may have caused early friction.
  • Did not confirm customer’s understanding or acceptance of the paid-support offer before pivoting to self-help.
  • Did not walk the customer through even basic reconfiguration steps despite the customer’s expressed need.
  • Did not verify whether the customer could access email at the time of the call, risking delivery of the self-help guide to an inaccessible inbox.

V2 Indicator Ratings

Resolution
R1 Not Met Issue actually resolved conf 95%
Agent offered only paid support and email guidelines without resolving the issue: 'I could not provide you free technical assistance… you will have to apply for the paid support'.
R2 Partially Met Diagnostic thoroughness conf 80%
Agent suggested connecting a computer directly to the modem to test internet availability, which is a relevant diagnostic step, but did not proceed further or verify results.
R3 Not Met Correct resolution path conf 95%
Agent refused free troubleshooting due to OOW status, violating policy that requires best-effort support: 'I could not provide you free technical assistance' despite OOW standard mandating troubleshooting attempts.
Technical Accuracy
T1 Partially Met Technically accurate info conf 80%
Agent identified blinking lights as a symptom and inferred possible disconnection, then proposed a test (direct PC-to-modem connection), showing some logical progression, but skipped basic router-side checks like reboot or firmware status.
T2 Partially Met Appropriate tools / resources used conf 80%
Agent recommended using a direct Ethernet connection to the modem as a diagnostic tool, which is appropriate, but did not confirm if the customer performed it or interpret results, limiting its effectiveness.
T3 Not Met No misinformation conf 90%
Agent incorrectly stated that free assistance cannot be provided for OOW devices, contradicting Linksys policy which mandates best-effort troubleshooting regardless of warranty status.
Communication
C1 Partially Met Clear & professional language conf 75%
Agent maintained basic call flow and responded to customer input, but failed to set clear expectations, summarize next steps, or regain control when the conversation became disjointed.
C2 Partially Met Confirmed understanding conf 70%
Agent used plain language but did not confirm understanding or adapt to customer’s repeated confusion and emotional state; no comprehension checks were made.
Customer Ownership
O1 Not Met Ownership & empathy conf 90%
Agent avoided ownership by deferring to paid support and email instructions instead of guiding the customer through resolution: 'I can just send you an email with the guidelines'.
O2 Partially Met Proactive follow-through conf 80%
Agent promised to send an email after creating a case record but gave no timeline or confirmation of delivery, leaving next steps vague.
O3 Not Applicable Closure confirmation conf 100%
This was the first contact; no prior case history existed to reference or maintain continuity.
Escalation Judgment
E1 Not Applicable Correct escalation decision conf 100%
No escalation occurred and none was warranted based on the issue complexity or customer request.
E2 Not Applicable Escalation prep & handoff conf 100%
No escalation occurred; therefore execution cannot be assessed.
Customer Experience
X1 Partially Met Customer effort minimised conf 75%
Agent said 'It is okay' in response to customer’s frustration, offering minimal acknowledgment but not explicitly recognizing repeated effort or emotional strain.
X2 Partially Met Tone & rapport conf 70%
Agent continued at a steady pace but did not adjust tone or simplify further despite customer’s repeated expressions of confusion and helplessness.
X3 Not Met Overall experience conf 90%
Customer had to repeat serial number, name, and email multiple times; agent failed to use already-provided information, increasing customer effort unnecessarily.
Call Transcript37 turns · 39 lines
Speaker 2
for out of warranty products, a fee may be charged for support. Please have your device's serial number and contact information ready.
00:00
Speaker 1
Yes, uh, I was told I... I was supposed to... a Spectrum person to call you. I am having trouble with my, uh, it's the internet problem. Uh, and it, I'm not sure if it's that link, this, that system that I got. Uh, of that material number of this product. Of this link. Let me see. Well, yes, I'm underneath that, right? Uh, S
02:00
Speaker 2
Thank you for calling linksys. This is version eight. How can I help you? Go ahead. Can you provide me the serial number of your linksys product? Look at the router, your linksys router, underneath it there is a product label sticker. [silence]
02:00
Speaker 1
Uh, 19, T2, the, zero, five. A comme I hear me. This message has been transcribed while I notify the caller. Hello? Yes, it is 1-9-T- 20 M 24-9 0 6-1- 4-5.
03:00
Speaker 2
Hello. Yeah, your voice lasted a while ago. Can you say that again? Hello. OK, ma'am. Can you say the serial number again?
03:00
Speaker 1
No key for Tom. Yes. Let's see, I think it's no, no I think it's go back to uh go back to M for Mike. The next one is two. The next one is A as in Annie. nine six right.
04:00
Speaker 2
PT for Peter, TT for Thomas. Okay, two zero. M for Mike, two, four, nine, zero, six, one, four, five. Yes. Okay. Mm-hmm. Right. And then nine, zero, six, one, four, five. Okay. All right. All right. Thank you. Okay. So your Lynksys Online router is model EA7300. So you only have one link in case. Do you have any questions? Okay. It's two zero, two oh, four eight, zero one, two one, three six two, M for Memory. Okay, do you need any help? Okay, all right. Thank you. Thank you so much.
04:00
Speaker 1
I have one router. Yes. Yes. Patricia Benell, B-U-N-N-E-L-L, B-U-N-N-E-L-L.
05:00
Speaker 2
and N for Nancy
05:00
Speaker 1
Yes, yes, it is. P is in P.A.T. P.A.T. One time. B.U.N.62@gmail.com. Yes. Dr. Maher. [silence]
06:00
Speaker 2
N for Nancy, E for Edward, L for Lori, L for Lori. Is that correct? All right, thank you. Patricia Vornell. may I know your email address Patricia? [silence] All right, so it's patvonicks 2
06:00
Speaker 1
yeah I called them because I could not get at first nothing on my TV and then I couldn't I don't have any way of getting doing anything on my um computer or cell phone as far as replying to mails and calls um and then when I talked to Spectrum and then I told them about my Linksys that it it's blinking off and on off and on off and on and then it'll then it'll quit they said my Spectrum was there's nothing wrong with the Spectrum account and to give you a call because I'm having Wi-Fi problems.
07:00
Speaker 2
So you called Spectrum because you have no Internet? And Spectrum told you to call all links? Okay. See? Okay. Decorated.
07:00
Speaker 1
Mhm. Yeah. Right it isn't. [silence]
08:00
Speaker 2
So since spectrum are confirm that their connection is okay. So it may be your router because as you've mentioned, its light is blinking on and off. It has not... has stabilized or it's not showing a steady light. Correct? All right. So I think your router Patricia may have been disconnected. So you may need to reconfigure it again. But before we proceed on that, Patricia, I have to update you first on your linksys router warranty status. because upon checking on our systems, our records indicate that this router of yours model EA7300 is already out of warranty.
08:00
Speaker 1
[silence]
09:00
Speaker 2
It's warranty status expired last 2021. So I could not pro-- yeah. So I could not provide you free technical assistance, but if you want me to walk you through the steps on how to reconfigure again, your Linksys router, you will have to apply for the paid support or paid connect service. [silence] That will cost you money. [silence] The paid support will cost you 15 US dollar. [silence] And it's a one time non-refundable technical support which will only last for this call session. a maximum of 60 minutes. After that, the troubleshooting steps will end when we reach that 60 minutes. And there is no guarantee that we'll be able to configure your router successfully because we don't know yet if it's really your Linksys router that has a problem, because it could be your internet connection or your modem from spectrum, the hardware of your spectrum modem may be also compromised. So we're not really, we cannot guarantee you that we'll be able to, when we do the troubleshooting steps, we'll be able to
09:00
Speaker 1
Mm-kay, a- about what's the-what does the modem look like? Is it l-like a t-the the PAC- the power. Okay, the okay the it has power and online b-blinking or there. It's that's the new box. That's the new one because they just I just want to get that maybe.
11:00
Speaker 2
am. Sure, could you love to proceed? The modem is the one that's provided to you by your spec. where your router is connected. Okay. mhm Mm-hmm. Okay. back or we don't know yet because we haven't started troubleshooting your router. Once you apply for the paid connect service, that's the only time we could start troubleshooting or reconfiguring your router. Um, in that process, that's the time that we'll be able to uh verify or confirm if it's the router itself that is the issue or it could be the modem from your spectrum.
11:00
Speaker 1
Okay, so, and she did say that I would you, to help me with re-inputting everything again. Okay. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm, okay.
13:00
Speaker 2
yes, that's the reconfiguring your router because it might be disconnected, but it might, uh, as I've mentioned, it might be disconnected. Or it might be, uh, it's your internet connection, because there are two probable cause why your router is disconnected. One is the router itself disconnected. So you will need to set it up again. Two is that the router disconnected because it's not getting any internet supply from your Spectrum modem. So it could be that the internet connection when you talk with Spectrum, the internet
13:00
Speaker 1
hmm okay. lord, i wish i was more knowledgeable. i can't, i can't, i can't get any, i can't get anything on my on my computer. i had to call my doctor
14:00
Speaker 2
It is okay. There was no outage, internet outage, but uh it could be uh a problem of the hardware of the modem that was provided by Spectrum. But uh if you're not uh uh you're not uh uh assured of the troubleshooting steps because if we do the troubleshooting steps and we find out that it's it's not the router or we would not be able to configure it successfully, I can just uh send you an email with the guidelines on how to reconfigure your router again. Hm. Do you have a desktop computer?
14:00
Speaker 1
Yes, okay. Spectrum. Okay.
15:00
Speaker 2
Okay, one thing to verify if there is really an internet coming from your Spectra modem is try to connect your desktop computer directly to your Spectra modem because by wiring your computer directly to your Spectra modem, if there's really an internet coming from it, your computer will be able to access to your internet. So that's one way to verify if there's really an internet coming from your modem. Once you connect your computer directly to your Spectra modem, you will know if there's an internet or not, because it's a direct link to your Spectra modem. So if your computer can open website, access internet, then it the Spectrum is not lying to you, that it really is
15:00
Speaker 1
Okay. Okay.
16:00
Speaker 2
But if it doesn't but if you connect your computer directly to your spectrum modem and still your computer cannot access internet, then it only means there's a problem with your spectrum modem. Uhm and you may need to call your your spectrum to check your modem because it could be a hardware issue. The hardware of that modern may be compromised. So that's one way. Uh now uh but if you don't want to apply for the paid support because there's no assurance that will be able to uh set up your router successfully, then I can uh send you the guidelines so that you can just follow the guidelines. Uh um I'll do that. Uh please wait for uh my uh my message. Bye. [silence] Go. Uh please disconnect your T-apt-IS cable from all boxes and from power. Just leave a single cable connected to the jacket switch.
16:00
Speaker 1
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Uh, well, I get all the emails. Yeah, I get them all, but I can't answer anyone, it won't go out. And my cell phone's the same way. I can get everything, but I can't like answer someone who was trying to get ahold of me. [silence] Yeah. [silence] Yeah. [silence] Mm-hmm.
17:00
Speaker 2
If your problem is that you cannot access internet, you will not be able to open your email address. And as I've said, uh-huh, let's see. So it's the reply, or replying your email that you receive. So if you can receive email and the only issue is that you cannot reply to those emails, so it's not actually a linkagesws.org issue. It could be a, problem with the server where you'll have the email, or it could be, but I can try to get my computer at home on to this network. Uh huh. Um, I have a Mac computer and it's not connecting to this network. I mean, as, let me go home let me go put this computer on mine and I'll try to do it from mine to see what's going on.
17:00
Speaker 1
Yeah. Yeah, she told me. yeah. yeah. Yeah. mhm.
18:00
Speaker 2
It could be a problem with your device that you're using because if you can receive email, because if you can receive email that's uh uh for say uh means that you have an access to your internet because you can still receive email. And the only issue is that you cannot reply to them. So I think you may have to check on your device, your phone. Maybe there's uh some uh configuration that needs to be uh checked on your phone or your laptop, which device that you use. You can try to use other devices if you still uh get the same response that you cannot uh reply to those emails that you received. If it's [silence]
18:00
Speaker 1
Wait. Yes. I thank you for your help. Okay. So, this is, OK, this is, OK, this is good. All right. Oh, I have a better knowledge of how data collection works. All right. Oh, there's a missing piece in my, oh, there's a missing piece in my understanding. Well, this is so cool.
19:00
Speaker 2
To get the same results all our, the devices cannot reply to your emails then it could be a server issue with your email website. Right. So, that is all. Since you can have accessed your. Since you can access your internet, so, I can just send you the guidelines to your email, because you don't need to reply to my email. You just need to open the email because it's just an instructional guide. So, you can read the guidelines on how to set up your router, if you need to reconfigure your router. But since you mentioned that you can access your internet, there's nothing wrong with your.
19:00
Speaker 1
Okay. Okay. What the problem is. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, they are, let say I was using my Samson remote and then they told me to use my, my Spectrum remote.
20:00
Speaker 2
[silence] Patricia: All right. Patricia, I'll send you the emails once I'm done on creating your case record. Just check your email and if you still want some assistance for us, you can always go to our site support.linksys.com because we have our own AI agent links is support assistant on our site. So from there you can access it and use it if you still have some other concerns.
21:00
Speaker 1
okay. Yes, I appreciate your help. Very much. All right. Goodbye. [silence]
22:00
Speaker 2
okay all right oh you're welcome okay thank you for calling lenses Patricia once again this is ace take good and have a great day good bye.
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