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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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Can I downgrade my hub?

Hi all, I had my Virgin M350 installation yesterday and have spent today trying to get the Hub 5x working with my existing Google mesh set up. After much frustration I think I've came to the conclusion that modem mode just doesn't work on the 5x.Unfo...

Hub 5 ready for 2-10Gbps? (DOCSIS 3.1 support).

Background brief: DOCSIS 3.0 is 1gbps over 32 downstream connections. DOCSIS 3.1 is protocol standard for 10gbps.Notice hub 5 has 1 DOCSIS 3.1 connection available. Does anyone know if this 1 downstream of 3.1 allows hub 5 to be future proof and read...

odhuk by Joining in
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Red light on Virgin Media Hub

Someone else here with the now permanent red light. Have reset the hub and tried disconnecting for a bit, but the light’s still red even though the hub doesn’t feel particularly hot if at all. Have also noticed a distinct drop in the WiFi performance...

How do I reset my public IP?

Hey there,I'm wondering how I can change my public IP with my virgin media router, I have the "Hub 3". I've seen other posts, and some say turn it off for 15 minutes, some say you can't, I'm not sure.I do not have a separate modem, so I can't go into...

WildRage by Joining in
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No RF Signal detected after attempted fix at box

My internet went down just after 9am today, and very soon after I saw an engineer spend maybe 30 minutes attempting a fix at the box on my road. However, there is still no internet on my network, no reported outage in my area (I checked online and ca...

lalisa by Settling in
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hub3 ethernet ports max speed 100Mbps?

hihad my 350Mbs service installed yesterday.Having done some research and reading other posts on here it seems the ethernet ports wont go faster than 100Mbps (im currently getting about 85Mbps)Yes the Wi-Fi is being reported at 350-375, but I'm reall...

xlncuk by On our wavelength
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Re: Virgin connect app can’t find hub

Thats EXACTLY the same issue I have. Worked great in the past then after some unwanted app update it wanted me to merge my wifi networks. I prefer to keep them separate and the app didn't like that and has never worked since. Oh yes I've uninstslled ...

sjj1805 by On our wavelength
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