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Resolved! Wifi no longer visible on London underground

Hi all,  I noticed for the first time today that the usual virgin media WiFi network isn't there on the tube. Is this being phased out?     [MOD EDIT: Please see update on post 111 here]      

ruswit by On our wavelength
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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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Solid Red light on hub

I’ve had a solid red light on my Hub 3 for a couple of weeks. Wifi is okay, but maybe a little flaky. When I rang to ask what was happening, I was told it would be gone in 24 hours, but obviously this hasn’t been the case. I’m a little concerned my h...

Swisslet by Joining in
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WiFi pods, one flashing blue, one flashing green

Had new hub 3 installed over weekend after it overheated. Technician came, replaced hub 3. Now our WiFi pods will not connect. One flashes blue. One flashes white. Tried the connect app. That tells me I’m not home?! Even though I’m sat here right now...

Resolved! Poor wifi coverage

I live in a 4 story house with brick walls and am struggling to get wifi coverage throughout the property. Extenders have caused issues with "Connected without internet" so Virgin tech told me to turn the extender off - something to do with a SSID co...

RobD1967 by Joining in
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Internet Spikes

As you can see from my thinkbroadband graphs over the past few days there is a constant issues with latency services with my home WiFi. Despite rebooting and even receiving a new Hub 4 the issues still occur. 

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WiFi black spot, connect app not working

had an engineer out this afternoon as since we had the hub box moved to a different room last week, we’ve now no WiFi upstairs. Engineer said to download the connect app and do the home scan upstairs. I’ve been trying since he left and everytime I ge...

Evohbo by Joining in
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Disney plus not loading when on WiFi

For some reason this week whenever I try to load Disney plus on any of my devices (fire stick, iPhone, tablet etc) it doesn’t load and either just has the circle spinning round and never fully loads or an error pops up saying I’m connected to a vpn w...

So Hub5 1Gig service packet loss and jitter

So I am on the 1Gig service along with the hub 5,I am getting packet loss and jitter almost all the time, Power levels and signal status on the hub 5 is with in VM range on both up and down services, on the network log i am seeing this howeveri have ...

Hub 5 no Wi-Fi

I have had no Wi-Fi since yesterday morning. Our power was off for 30 minutes and once turned back on the Wi-Fi has been unable to connect to any devices. the virgin tv box works but that’s it. I’ve been through the forum and completed all of the fix...

Elle09 by Joining in
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Resolved! Dear VM Staff, Is there an ongoing issue in my area?

Hello!Sorry to bother you guys, but can you please check to see if there are any ongoing issues in the TF1 area? My connection has been experiencing packetloss recently, especially during busy periods. I am getting anywhere from 1-5% packetloss which...

Phixion by Dialled in
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