HSMM-MESH

[John Donaldson]

I got two 54G boxes. One is a V1.0 and already programmed as a Mesh Node.
The second box is a V3.0. I accessed the default Linksys page, went to 
Administration, Firmware Upload, and uploaded the latest version of the 
HSMM-MESH firware. It came back and said firmware installed. I then did 
a 30-30-30 procedure and waited for the node to complete. Then I took my 
Win8 laptop, set the wi-fi to airplane mode, set the built in IP port to 
172,27.0.100 and 255.255.255.0.
I then hooked the Cat 5 able to the LAN port, fired up Firefox and 
attempted to link to http://172.27.0.2:8080/ with no results. It comes 
back and says that it can not find the address and port. So I tried the 
V1.0 node that I had programmed back in Dallas a year ago and was 
working then but got the same message from the browser. i then activated 
a CMD window and tried to ping 172,27.0.2 and got no response that it 
even exist. I got the same result with the V1.0 node too.
     When I activate the wi-fi on the Win8 laptop, I can see both of the 
wi-fi ports on the V1.0 and V3.0 nodes. I can even connect but no displays.

Any thoughts as to what I am doing or not doing?

John Donaldson
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