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My newly installed hub 5 won't work with my ring doorbell devices.

dnj1952
Tuning in

My new Hub 5 works really well with all of my network-enabled in-house devices - mobile phones, central heating systems, radios, TVs, etc. but not my Ring door bell. Why?

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Cardiffman282
Problem sorter

See https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Networking-and-WiFi/Ring-Doorbell-and-poor-connection/m-p/55059... 

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Adduxi
Very Insightful Person
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Check the 2.4Ghz is set for legacy devices;

Access your Hub by navigating to 192.168.0.1
Login with the default login info (on base of Hub) unless you've already updated it.
Go to Advanced Settings > Wireless > Wireless signal
In the Wireless frequency 2.4GHz select Wireless mode > 802.11b/g/n/ax mixed
Select Apply changes

If this fails, either the Wifi signal is too weak and/or your Ring dislikes the Wifi 6 ax protocol of the Hub 5.

You may need to get an older 2.4Ghz b/g/ac Wifi extender for the Ring.

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legacy1
Alessandro Volta

Get a router that can do it with 1Gb ports and use hub in modem mode

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Client62
Alessandro Volta

We have seen this before for a number of 2.4GHz only devices ( cameras to air-cond units ) where the customer has an admin app on a mobile phone that is connected to the Hub 5 via the 5GHz band. 

The issue being the Hub 5 appears to not pass traffic between the 2.4 & 5GHz bands so the admin app can not contact the IoT ( door camera - a/c unit etc ).

Many customer have made progress by disabling the Hub 5's  5GHz band via the Hub menu for a period,
this causes the mobile phone and in this  case door camera to be on the same 2.4GHz band
during the set up process.

Thank you for taking the trouble to send me an answer. The hub 2.4 GHz signal was already set to the mode you suggested. The hub is no more than 5m from the ring device and Ring worked perfectly well with the "old" hub. It strikes me that the problem lies with Virgin rather than Ring given it worked perfectly well. The new hub isn't backwards compatible.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by an older Ring Wifi extender?

Client62
Alessandro Volta

Disable the 5GHz Wi-Fi band on the Hub 5 and try again.