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UNDERSTANDING KEY ASPECTS OF WiFi

UNDERSTANDING KEY ASPECTS OF WiFi WiFi is a somewhat notorious, though essential commodity. In many cases, when its behaviour does not meet the user’s perception of the claims made by the ISP (e.g. Virgin Media), the blame is quickly heaped on the IS...

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Sephiroth by Alessandro Volta
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Getting a better Wireless Network Signal

Seeing so many posts about Good, Bad & ugly Wifi, I thought I would post some suggestions for people out there.   There are definitely good, midrange & poor routers with quite variable performance wifi.  Never expect a mass market product to be the b...

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Hub status data - understanding network log messages

N Warning: Long, dull, a bit technical. NHaving needed to repeat myself a few times, I thought I'd share my understanding of what you might find in a Hub 3's network log when things go wrong, and what it means.  First of all, this post is based on my...

Andrew-G by Alessandro Volta
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Project Mustang FTTP network upgrade Sheffield 6

There has been some work done recently in our area, adding new cabinets, the project code on the works is NK128FIBREUP-SHEFFXQOIAF (if it helps). It doesn't appear they have pulled / blown any fibre yet as there are still some coffin tops at some of ...

HUb 3 issues

My Hub 3 that ive had for many years seems to be showing signs that its coming to the end of its useful life. Some devices lose connection randomly, it often loses connection to the WiFi pod i have (which is not good as that is what my home cctv conn...

Consistent high ping and packet loss.

For the last couple of months I have been having high ping and high packet loss AGAIN on ethernet connection. I use the internet for gaming, streamer and for work (which is a problem right now). I pay for 250 download and im not even sure about uploa...

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qual by On our wavelength
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Resolved! Devices not connecting to WiFi Pod

Hi, My devices don't seem to be using the WiFi Pod to connect to a better signal and instead connect to the Hub which is further away and not giving as good a signal.I've attached an image showing the Chromecast connecting to the Hub and not the WiFi...

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DForeman by Joining in
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Red router light.

Help please. Router has had a red light for over 2 months and is hot to touch. I have tried factory reset and all other tips found on this forum. i have been pulling my hair out trying to get through to talk to an advisor with no success. Chat bot su...

Permanent red light on Hub 3

Hi,lm another one with a permanent red light on my hub. Had intermittent problems for at least a year and tried all the resets and powering down etc. Been trying to get through to VM but end up in a loop. Sometimes when I do a check it says there is ...

Tomw22 by Just joined
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Red light on Hub

Over the weekend my Internet Hub has turned from a white light to a red light.I've tried unplugging and restarting Hub but still no joy.  

Disney plus not loading when on WiFi

For some reason this week whenever I try to load Disney plus on any of my devices (fire stick, iPhone, tablet etc) it doesn’t load and either just has the circle spinning round and never fully loads or an error pops up saying I’m connected to a vpn w...