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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! Disconnecting GU52

Suffering random internet drops. Wifi remains connected but getting extreme download latency (1000+) and then drops.Using SH5 in modem mode with Netgear RAX70. Issues with 2g and 5g. Netgear restarted and SH5 restarted. No change. Here's download 

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dyawlak by On our wavelength
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Re: Hub not found in Connect app

Exactly the same here. Cannot use VM Connect ( Hub not found). Also cannot login to 192.168.0.1. just hangs. Have tried clearing cache, uninstalling app and re installing, have reset router. All to no avail. Help! Will a Hub 5 fix it? Please don't ma...

peteclen by Tuning in
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Email about broadband

I have had two emails in the last couple of days saying that there is something wrong with my wifi connections. But they are all working perfectly.

hansi by Fibre optic
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WIfi has no valid IP configuration

Hi everyone, I've been without internet on my PC since Thursday. I've tried flushing the DNS, setting a manual DNS, renewing the IP and Winsock. I've even tried reinstalling the operating system, drivers and bios. My PC will connect to the network bo...

No internet/Solid Yellow Light

Hi, We had working Internet for 3 weeks after installation, then Friday last week the Internet just stopped working. Solid Yellow are now showing on the 5x Hub.Multiple calls and multiple technicians have come to view the property and everyone seems ...

AdamC14 by Tuning in
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VM Connect cant find hub4

I also am having issues connecting to my Hub4 since upgrading 1gig broadband this week, BM connect can’t connect and the speed is frequently showing slower than when I was on 350 gbps broadband, I am paying more and getting less! Can you help please ...

Blitts by Tuning in
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Yodel return of 10 Aug 2024

I've had a new router delivered (I was told it needed upgrading) and have installed it. All working fine. I packed up the old one and dropped it off at my local Yodel pick-up point as requested. Today (14 August) I had an email from Virgin asking whe...

benbn3 by Just joined
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Unreliable service

Hi,Since having fibre installed in January this year I am constantly having disconnection issues, drops offline and I get the slow white flashing light, usually it comes back on if I power it down and back on and lasts a couple weeks max, now it's st...

kezandz by Tuning in
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Engineer non appearance

Last week an engineer came after we'd had a week of frequent broadband outages, some lasting hours. He was good and replaced most of the cabling as it was old. Later the same day he called and said he done some remote tests and the hub seemed to have...

Habanero by On our wavelength
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