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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 3 timeouts and reboots

For the last month or so I've been getting random reboots of the hub 3 again. This only started happening AFTER I had received emails/texts saying a problem was found and fixed with my connection.The website service status says there are intermittent...

nvr by Joining in
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WiFi problems Wetherby

Anyone else have broadband problems today in Wetherby. My service has been dropping out all day but VM says there are no faults locally 

denrenix by On our wavelength
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Resolved! Is this the most useless company ever?

I can't be bothered to recount the full story in detail.  But here's the highlights: Â£67 a month Broadband connectioned Tuesday afternoon (6th Aug).  Reported immediatelyEngineer arranged for Thursday morningEngineer arrived Thursday and told me it w...

wifi pod connection unknown to vm connect app

I have got first wifi pod and already having issues, the connect app connection status is unknown, I have rebooted the pod a few times,I have a hub3, it states 10 mins to come back and check health of device.I don't even know if it's working ? 

Hot Weather Dropout

Once again summer has rolled round and as soon as it gets warm the internet for our street drops out. My hub is in a nice shaded cool location so it isn't that and rebooting it makes no difference. Today I had no internet from 1pm til 8pm then it mag...

High latency and packet loss

    Hello people, so I’ve been with virgin for around 1 and half yearsThe first year was fine speed and connection wisebut the last 2 months I have been getting constant packet loss and high latency FROM AROUND 8 o’clock at night untill 6-7 in the mo...

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Walker94 by Joining in
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SSID HUB5 label differs from the broadcast SSID

I have noticed today when trying to access my HUB5 settings page, that the SSID Label on my Hub, does not match the SSID being broadcast for my Wifi.I can no longer access the Settings page as the credentials are rejectedThe ID on the label is not br...

Wifi Pods - how to order

Just noticed you responded to 4hc - did you miss my post from Monday? Will paste below: Same problem as everyone else here - poor wifi in areas of the house (see screenshot on previous post), on the Volt package, but no way to order pods. Stuck in th...

2v by Joining in
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