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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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Hub 5 problems - renaming connected device

So, had my hub 3 replaced with a hub 5 a while ago, and am now having problems renaming the connected device names.  On the old hub 3, it was simple. Click on the device that you wanted to rename, and a drop down box appeared to choose the items type...

HughJarsse by Knows their stuff
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Phantom Ethernet Connection

Bit of a head scratcher here. I've been trying to port-forward for my desktop's minecraft server via its ethernet connection, but while I've managed to set up DHCP for my computer & port forward to it, the (3.0) hub continually insists that there are...

Snugglyn by Just joined
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Moving external box

Is it possible to have my external box fitted inside my loft as my house is supplied via overhead lines. The box is on an external wall at the moment but I’m building an extension and it will end up being inside the house

Diskev by Joining in
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Resolved! Pfsense firewall and hub3

Hi has anyone got a guide to setting up a hub 3 in modem only mode and the settings needed on pfsense firewall? anyone help would be much appreciated thanks Andy

Andtheit by Joining in
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Power level and error message, packet loss

       Can someone tell me if these levels are okay getting high packet loss and latency and internet drop out every day for the last 3 months same time every night 8pm till 5-6-7 in the morning 

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Walker94 by Joining in
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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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My WiFi changed address from VM8558777 TO UCP8558777

Hello so past couple of days I had no internet I contacted VM and arranged and engineer who is due Monday ,but I've woken up this morning turned my router on still no internet so I looked closely and recognised my WiFi address it was vm8558777 now he...

Subra87 by Tuning in
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Packet Loss and T3/T4 timeouts

Hi,In the last day (6th August) I have started to get packet loss and T3/T4 timeouts causing my broadband to drop and then reconnect. I am only getting loss of broadband at the same time as the packet loss is occurring, and this is aligned with when ...

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