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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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Help - customer service and pods

Can someone tell me how to contact customer service to order pods as I have various black spots around the house which are not registering as such because NO WIFI! Calls prompt a link which resets the hub NOT NECESSARY. I cannot work out how to get t...

sjg011 by Joining in
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Hub wont connect after loss of power

This has happened on a number of occasions now and is infuriating. Anytime the power goes (we are on prepayment meters, occasionally forget to top up!) it takes a day, sometimes 2 days for the hub5 to reconnect. The light is solid white which suppose...

KHW1815 by Joining in
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Is my connection using CGNAT?

I am troubleshooting something unrelated, and someone helping me wants to know if my ISP is using CGNAT. I'm not sure what this is, but in any case, how do I find this information out?

icarus69 by Tuning in
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Hub 3 with pods only accepts connections to 2.4 GHz

I have a Hub 3 and a set of pods, all VM standard config - 2.4 and 5 GHz on same SSID etc. I noticed that our Fire TV was often buffering even though it's right next to the hub, and video calls on laptops often drop connection even though signal stre...

papanoob by Tuning in
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Intermittent WIFI Hub 4 hot to touch

Hi I have a superhub 4 wifi speeds have always been lousy with dropouts etc recently i have had to place hub on its side to cool it down the top grill bit was getting hot to touch stuck with hub but recently had smart home heating, tv etc that use wi...

Wi fi pods

Recently had Gig 1 installed and have at least two really bad spots for WiFi and speed upstairs am I entitled to WiFi pods being on the top package ?

PODS keep dropping connection

I have a hub 5 (factory settings, long press reboot several times over the last year) and 3 white pods. Once or twice a months 1 or all of the pods would just stop connecting, more often than not all of them, just doing the slow blink. 1-2 days of re...

HUB & POD connections bounce back and forth

I've been on the WhatsApp chat and realised I need a proper techy to help me I've had issues since installation and have followed demands for a reboot more times than I can remember.Issue is... my devices tend to skip between pods, or remain connecte...