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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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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 ...

Unable to get wifi in bedroom

I recently just moved houses and joined Virgin media, when I was going through the order process with a CS team member they told me that I would be eligible for a free wifi booster if necessary as well as being an O2 user.I've done a test using the V...

LiamR by Joining in
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Resolved! Broadband in CV2

Hi - has anyone out there had BT/EE on their doorstep today telling you that Virgin have updated their digital connections?  I was told today that I should be entitled to a reduction in my Broadband bill? I'm in CV2, it seems it was a local problem r...

Pat1 by Tuning in
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WiFi blackspot

I was informed when I had fibre installed last month that if I had some blackspots I could ask for upto 3 free pods, i have a blackspot in the very back of the kitchen and the opposite end of the house upstairs bedroom,I've done the Howe scan and not...

Hub 3 - Red light

Hi Carley, I have the same problem. Hub 3, red light on but connecting all ok. I called in to report the fault and they said it was due to WiFi upgrades in my area and would go in a few days. That doesn't sound right to me. I am worried about potenti...

Booster Plug Blown - Sparked and Smokey

We’ve had this booster for about a year with no issues - got home tonight having been away and when I switched it on it started to spark a lot and then started to smoke and now no longer works. How do I go about having replacements sent or upgraded m...

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