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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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Resolved! 2.4GHz WiFi grinds to a halt / unusable

HelloI have an issue where my 2.4GHz WiFi connections grind to a halt and become unusable.Ethernet and 5GHz are fine, speedy in fact and have no issues.As far as I can tell the issue arises when our phones (iPhone 13 and 13 Pro) switch over to a 2.4 ...

Router moving

 I've recently moved my pc that was always wired into my office (upstairs) and have been struggling connection wise. I have 1gb downloaded speeds but my pc is only getting 30mb download. My work laptop that is next to my pc is getting around 300mb. I...

Virgin media pod

Hello, I have received a second white WiFi pod , this one isn't connecting it's been flashing white for around 4 hours now , I have tried in different rooms , switched hub5 off and on etc the first one I had connected within 10 minutes and I can move...

operty by Just joined
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Resolved! Significant latency and connection problems

Hi all, for the past month at least I have been experiencing lag spikes.It's most noticeable during video calls for work where I will be disconnected for 20 - 30 seconds and in online gaming, where the ping spikes and I get booted from the game. Ther...

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Red light on hub constantly on

This evening the red light on my hub came on and have run thru all the troubleshooting to no avail. Having to work from home so this is a bit of a nuisance. Does anyone know how long it would take for a replacement router to arrive?  

Resolved! Hub 3 Red light constantly on

I had a text from Virgin media to say we had planned maintenance on Monday 9th September but I never saw any outage or loss of service that day.Last night Wednesday 11th the internet dropped out completely and when I checked the router I noticed the ...

dazz44 by Joining in
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Resolved! UniFi setup with VM

I have a unifi cloud console that I want to install at a site which currently runs TalkTalk internet, I am nearly ready to switch to VM broadband, I have a question regarding Ubiquiti's UCG-Max cloud gateway and how I can connect it in a way that it ...

Resolved! Regular drops in speed and repeated router reboots

I've been having issues with my broadband speed for about a week now. I'm on Gig1 full fibe, with a Hub 4 router, and regularly get 950-985 Mbps download and about 100 Mbps upload.On 5 Sept, I began to notice that webpages were loading incredibly slo...

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Jon-J by Dialled in
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Router Upgrade SH2?

Hi, i have a Super Hub 2, which  understand is now outdated and should be replaced by Virgin. Tried the the 0345 phone number but then the online help tool does not lead to an upgrade router option that i can find after several attempts to trawl thro...

bob_8820 by Joining in
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