Speaker 2
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Speaker 1
yeah. Hi. My name is Ruth and I bought a Lync says mesh system from
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Speaker 2
Thank you for calling links. This my name is Nathan. May I know you talk with.
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Speaker 1
Best Buy and I've been having problems with one of my child nodes that I keep losing connection. I mean, it keeps, it keeps, I need to know how to reboot it next to the parent node and I, yeah. Um, you want me to get the, I'm gonna, the child node is right next to my parent node right now. You want me to do what? Yes, they, well, they're about three feet away. You want me to get it closer? Okay. Oh, oh, I guess it's white now.
02:00
Speaker 2
All right. That would be easy. Can you bring the child node near the mother node? All right. Move it away at least one foot away from each other. One one foot away from each other. All right. That's good. That's ideal. Now. No, no, no. Let's keep it that way. Now, tell me what is the color of the light on the router?
02:00
Speaker 1
it's it's white now i just, i just, i okay, so let me. yeah, so i all i did was un, yeah, all i did was unplug it and then bring it over and plug it in. so maybe it's okay now? okay, so, yeah, it's now it's solid white. so let me, yeah, let me, um, let me, um, take it over and. um, and i'll plug it back in. so i have, um, i have, uh, it, this is where my tv room is, where where my, my cable is and i have a ethernet, a direct cable to my tv, to the, um, do the, um, tile node here. so let me just see if it's working now. so before i
03:00
Speaker 2
Okay, I will wait. Yep. Yep, it is. Solid white or blinking white. All right. You can bring it to the other node. Hmm. Hmm.
03:00
Speaker 1
i plug it into the internet cable should i let the light go white again? because right now it's flashing blue. do these things sometimes lose how is it that they lose connection like how does this happen? do you know? do you know why this thing loses connection? um oh yeah i mean i i think i have the link to this app let me see if i've got it. [silence] okay uh
04:00
Speaker 2
Yes and then wait for the white [silence] sorry again [silence] signal number one change of weather number two obstruction people furniture did you install the Linksys app? I'll show you how to read the location if it's a good one or not [silence] open it I'll show you how to read the location is not good [silence] okay
04:00
Speaker 1
Got it. Okay, I've got it. Okay, hold on, I have to log in. Oh, it says... So, it says I need my email address. So, let me just see what... What? Oh. Okay, hold on a second. Let me, let me use the router password just a second. So, the e instead of the e
05:00
Speaker 2
okay under you will see the dashboard devices and nodes can you click nodes you log in using your email address or router no no can you can you use no don't use the email don't use the email it will give you trouble use the router password and if you forgot the router password you can reset the account
05:00
Speaker 1
email address? You want me to, use the router password? Okay. Okay, and then where it says password, what what do I have there? Okay, well, it shows I have a new password there. Um, which I didn't. Okay, so, so what do I put in for the email address? So just don't don't use anything.
06:00
Speaker 2
yes yes you forgot the password right you can reset the password it will ask for the recovery key the recovery key is underneath the main or motherboard it's okay you can use the old it's okay you can use the new password if you want don't use the email address it is giving you trouble I have seen that many times let's avoid that one
06:00
Speaker 1
Yeah, I have the router password. I think this is it. I just don't remember. Um, but it's but it's still still not going because it says it it needs an email address. It says links this router admin and then I have my password. Um, I could see if I changed it. Um, let me go into my passwords here and see what it says. I I don't remember changing that, but maybe I did. Okay, it says yeah, I did change it. So on April 26, 26.
07:00
Speaker 2
Okay. In the email, keep it blank, select the router password. When you select the password, router password, it will ask for the password of the router. And, if you forgot the router password, you can reset the router password. Try, try it, try it. Then carry on. Uh-huh. Go ahead.
07:00
Speaker 1
Okay. So, um, again, what do you want me. So I, do I put the password in where it says password, or do I put it where it says email address? Okay. Okay. And then what do I put where it says email address? Um, No, it just says, um, email address, password and then forgot password. And then it says. Oh wait, there is a browser password. I got it. Okay. All right, hold on. Let me try it. Okay. Yeah, now it's okay.
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Speaker 2
in the in the router password. keep it for blank. uh scroll down is there an option for you to sign in using router password. um can you go back one step? one step go back. all right. that one.
08:00
Speaker 1
[ silence ] I where you said I could use the router. So it says, getting router settings. [ silence ] Okay. Okay. Now I see the nodes I have, living room is offline. The one that's offline is the one that I've been having problems with. Okay. [ silence ] Um, R slash hip hop special for cocaine and Mariah death. Huge. [ silence ]
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Speaker 2
when you see the devices and nodes, click the nodes, it will show you the nodes that are connected, okay? Click the nodes and click one of the nodes that is not offline, that is online and then it will show you where this node is connected.
09:00
Speaker 1
So the only one that's on it shows is my gas network is on. That looks like the only one that's on cuz I have two networks. I have my network and I have my guest network cuz I have a renter. So I show, I show my, okay. So it says Ruth's Wi-Fi. Yeah, it says Ruth's Wi-Fi and then it says three nodes and then it says 11 device.
10:00
Speaker 2
connected two it's connected to the router connected to another child and there's also signal strength the value should be negative number and then dval you should not cross the negative 69 the value that you need to maintain is more or less negative 69 but not more than 69 um-hum okay go go back go go back to the go back to the main screen okay you see the devices and nodes uh uh
10:00
Speaker 1
you want click on, okay. it has Lenosis 00617, Lenosis 00637, and Lenosis 00253. There's a signal on, yeah, go ahead. Okay. Uh, it shows signal strength dash 61 dB, M. Um, the, I don't know what you, for the TV.
11:00
Speaker 2
under three nodes click that one okay click click one of those data signal or online alright the value that you need to maintain is not more than the minus 69 if you reach 70 80 that location is bad or two far away and that's where the issue of this connection that's what you're experiencing it now the other new that is for the tb what is the signal strength right now
11:00
Speaker 1
Uh let me go see. Yeah let me go see if it's white. Let me go see if it's turned white. I was gonna get another. I was gonna get another node. I was gonna buy another node and then it was working great. So I never did. [silence] Yeah, it's it's solid. It's solid white now so I'm out here where the TV is and it says MX 6200 and the serial number is 58 W10 m 25B8 0 637. So the 637 right, I can see it here. It says my
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Speaker 2
okay, take a look at it. Turn it upside down. you can break that... uh... it happens. Anyway, okay. Turn it upside down. There's a serial number underneath the router, and the one that you open the note, there's also a serial number. So, Okay, serial number. 637. Okay, go back to the um, What is the signal strength?
12:00
Speaker 1
minus 84 dBM. So I need to buy. So I need to. Okay, so I just need to buy another I need to buy another route another mode then, right? Okay, yeah, I can, I can do, yeah, I can do that, I can buy another one, I'll do that, and then I'll just call you back when I, when I get the other one. Okay. Thank you so much, thank you, I love Lisa, thank you. Thank you. Ma'dan. Thank you, you too, bye bye. [silence]
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