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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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Huh 3 Green light

HelloJust installed the hub 3 and the WiFi isn’t working. Got confirmation that it’s been activated, have reached out to Virgin 5 times now and the color is still green. what can be the matter? How can one resolve it?

Didintle by Joining in
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Virgin Media Hub version differences in Modem mode

I have a Hub 2ac, which a few people on the phone (due to area problems) have told me is very old and may be causing problems... Ive been offered a Hub 4, and just today received an email asking me again....However, I use my hub in Modem mode, with a...

cjcharles by On our wavelength
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Essential security doesn’t work

Essential security and child lock doesn’t work. I have been getting errors like this site can’t be reached ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR and on iPhone with safari can not open the page because it couldn’t establish a secure connection to the server . Been h...

Matt553 by Joining in
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WiFi extender o2 volt customer

I am having and been having for a while poor WiFi upstairs. I purchased a WiFi Extender and is pretty poor. How do I get a official supplied WiFi extender, or is it best to get a technician out to test the system? I think I have a old WiFi 3 hub also...

Les2013 by On our wavelength
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Hub3 timed out site.?

Hi. Seems a favourite site of mine that used day before or less is no longer connecting when try loading all get is message saying:this site can't be reached took too long to respond.  Try checking connection. Error_connection-timed_outAlso checked c...

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Resolved! Wired connection to device in different room

Hi, just wondering if someone on here can help me please. I want to get a wired connection to my 4K TV as it doesn't seem to like thw wireless signal. My router is upstairs in the house so I've been using a powerline connection which isn't wonderful....

Resolved! Red light on Hub 3

We’ve got the dreaded red light on our Hub 3, meaning WiFi dropping off and poor reception across the house. We’ve tried resets etc… but no joy. Can VM send a new hub please

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Service in area down

VM Hub 3 here, last night around 2200 my internet went down. Frustrated me but thought maybe its a sign to go to sleep. Woke up this morning and have the message on phone "connected but no internet", switched the hub on and off and it went through th...

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Several outages a week, for several hours at a time

Hi, I recently signed up to the M500 Full Fibre package and a few months down the line I’m regularly getting outages (2-3 times a week) during the day that usually last a few hours at a time. I end up booking an engineer to come look at it, it’ll eve...

Ben2024 by Tuning in
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Connection issues with 3 different hubs

I called BT (hate that it’s the only option) and they said my area can only get 2Mbps until full fibre is installed. When I look online for deals, including entering my address, everywhere, including the BT website, tells me I can get 9-17 speeds, so...

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