Tapo devices not connecting to Virgin router

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Bobbykins 

I'm thinking that maybe the Virgin router has been

• remotely updated without my knowledge (does this happen?),
  Yes it absolutely does happen, the hub is not yours it’s their’s, you rent it, and VM reserve the right to do whatever that want with it, whenever they want. Now obviously they aren’t going to be deliberately annoying customers so these updates tend to happen in the early hours. Also the Hub 2 is well out of support so I’d be astonished if they were even bothering to deploy any updates for it.
  
• is work being carried out to deliberately degrade 'obsolete' routers?
• No, why would they? From a commercial perspective, they are more than happy for people to continue to use obsolete equipment otherwise it costs them to replace it! They don’t want to support it, so if you have an issue, it’ll be replaced, but they have not reason to want to accelerate this - it cost money!
  
  
• hacked in a way I cannot detect?
• Maybe, but probably not, or it is the world’s least useful hack!
  
  
• router has developed a very specific fault
• Ah yes now this is more likely, as mentioned below, it is quite possible that the hub is no longer broadcasting on the 2.4 GHz bands which a lot of IoT stuff uses. As I said the hub is old, so this certainly cannot be ruled out. As Client62 says, you need to check this with a WiFi analyser application.

Anyone had similar problem and found a solution?

TIA

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