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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 menu Reboot resulted in DHCP failure

Having performed a Reboot from the Hub 3 menu the DHCP server of the Hub 3 failed to respond to DHCP clients.Initial impressions of this are Wi-Fi broadcasting but not connecting and network ports although looking to be connected (LEDs on at both end...

Client62 by Alessandro Volta
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Virgin WiFi / Ethernet Booster

I am leaving Virgin (painful)  -  I know I will have to return the kit amongst which is a Virgin WiFi / Ethernet Booster (plugs into the 13amp socket with ethernet cables to rooter and PC).  I like to have my desktop PC connected this way - what will...

FortyTwo by Tuning in
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Black WiFi Pods are brilliant

I live in an old Victorian-era house, with walls 3 feet wide with no cavities. In the past, I had two areas that could only manage about 10Mbps, if that. As a result, I had to use the electric HomePlugs, but as the old house has been re-wired so many...

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almark by On our wavelength
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Pods

I have moved and need a new wifi pod, how can I order one of these? Thanks

Mugz47 by On our wavelength
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Connected but no Internet - only Chromebook!

I feel sure that this has to be something to do with Chromebooks, as it has now happened with two different (brands of) chromebook devices and with nothing else on our network.Randomly and quite frequently, my Chromebook loses the ability to talk to ...