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What was your first computer?

I recently reminisced about my first computer, an Amiga 600 in the mid-90s. I'm sure you've all had some weird and wonderful systems over the years, but what was the first? What was good (or not so good) about it? Personally I loved playing Settlers ...

Kev_B by Community Manager (Retired)
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Re-using old Hub3 as a wifi boost in a different room.

Last summer we received a new Hub 4 and all is fine.Today I tried to connect a Philips Smart TV to the network, eventually it was connected; but no channels.After a bit of checking I found the wifi signal on the other TV (next room) to be really low,...

MrFonce by Joining in
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Netflix link gone since house move

So I moved house a couple of weeks ago. Everything fine on Virgin Media side, but the day of the move I got an email from VM saying they’d disconnected my Netflix. I thought fine it’ll reappear that day or the next day. But 2 weeks later and I am sti...

meeta by Joining in
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Split cable for two routers

Is there a way to split the boardband cable so that there can be two routers? I would like to setup an extra router in my garden.

Biotb by Just joined
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VOIP settings

We've just bought VOIP phones on the understanding (having spoken to Virgin support) that we could use them over VOIP via our Virgin router. After some digging around here, it looks like this isn't possible. Could someone (ideally from Virgin) please...

mra_2024 by Joining in
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Keep blueyonder virgin -> O2

Future farther in law is not happy with renewal price £80 (paying 60 now going up to 100) for 250mb 2 boxes for TV and 3 WiFi pods (because the hub 3 is rubbish)His main issue for not leaving is the loss of his blueyonder (yes I know he could switch ...

jesma by Joining in
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Resolved! IP address changed

So I recently set up a DDNS service to be be able to use https://hetrixtools.com/ and/or https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality free services. The idea of using DDNS for these is I don't have to reconfigure them if my IP address ...

itathome by Tuning in
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Resolved! Virgin Bills

I'm getting to the stage where, with all the increases in energy bills, I won't be able to afford my Virgin Media bill much longer. I am an 80 year old pensioner on a fixed income, and my neighbour who is also with Virgin Media, pays much less, and w...

hansi by Fibre optic
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