Lotta Lightning (Day 3508 - 7/3/19)

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Today at Lunch Bunch, Stephen and Mallory meet up with Roland and Nikki. Stephen says that Dan is normally here, but he went to go visit his family in Florida. They talk about their plans for the 4th of July. Roland doesn't have any plans and Nikki didn't even realize that the 4th of July was coming up, so she also doesn't have plans.

After that, they pick up some groceries and find themselves driving home in a lightning storm. They mention that they might lose power and their roof might leak which was an issue they had on Day 3484. Stephen and Mal have message their rental company every week for about a month to fix it, but they haven't done anything yet.

Later, Stephen talks about how today has been stressful and briefly mentions how they didn't lose any power. Stephen and Mal tried to do a custom Smash level video again with Tom Fawkes. Tom ran into some problems with his levels, most likely because of a bug in Super Smash Bros: Ultimate. He had everything ready, but then the game refused to load items. This led to him removing elements from the level, but unfortunately it never loaded and he took a long time remaking the stage from scratch. Once the level was fixed, Stephen ran into some problems with his internet, which is an issue that he has been having in his office. He hasn't really had WiFi in his office, which is crazy, since the router is in that same room.

They have the Orbi Mesh Network, which is basically a network of routers throughout the house. The internet has been fine everywhere except for in the office. Stephen had been having some problems with the device a few weeks ago and he changed some of stuff on the debug page. It seemed to help, but then Stephen realized there was another way to set up the device. After much frustration in trying to get it working, he decided to just factory reset the Orbi. Stephen says that when the Orbi works it's great, but when it doesn't work it's hard to figure out how to fix it. He says that resetting it to the default settings will probably help.

By default, the Orbi makes the 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz bands keep the same SSID. The Orbi does some stuff to make everything function correctly with one SSID. However, he wants to set up 2 SSIDs, so then they're separate things with separate names. After doing that, it worked but tonight it had some extreme issues. Stephen says that he figured out that the Apple TV was the device causing these issues. He later realized he could fix all his problems just by using Ethernet because the satellites have Ethernet ports. So, he plugged it into a satellite and now it just works. Stephen spent about 90 minutes troubleshooting everything and they were unable to record the video with Tom. He's trying to not let it bring him down. Stephen mentions that he has been working on getting the vlogs caught up.