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castwar1930
On our wavelength
11 months ago
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Converting 5 GwH to 2.4 Gwh on Virgin Media router

I spoke to a technical man at Virgin Media.  Because I need to use my home security camera when visiting another country. And 2.4 has a longer range than 5. And because my security camera simply says...
  • legacy1's avatar
    legacy1
    11 months ago

    setup on your own wifi router with 1Gb ports with hub in modem mode or you be doomed.

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用心棒
Very Insightful Person
11 months ago
  • go to 192.168.0.1 and sign in
  • select Advanced settings > Wireless > Wireless signal
  • if not already selected, select  Enable 2.4 GHz and Enable 5 GHz and then Apply changes
  • select Security
  • under 5 GHz Wireless Security Settings append _5 to the WiFi Network Name (SSID) field value. For example, if it showed VM0000000 then its new value would be VM0000000_5
  • select Apply changes

Try connecting your security camera to the non-5GHz Wi-Fi. For example to VM0000000, i.e. not the one named VM0000000_5

If issue persist try disabling the 5GHz signal:

  • go to 192.168.0.1 and sign in
  • select Advanced settings > Wireless > Wireless signal
  • select Disable 5 GHz and then Apply changes
  • castwar1930's avatar
    castwar1930
    On our wavelength
    11 months ago

    This time it says I'm entering the wrong password.  Is this the one I changed it to yesterday?  I tried it twice.