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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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Problems in EH10 Edinburgh area 11 - outages

I've been with virgin for 2 months. I have never ever experienced such a poor ISP in my life. I have had outages almost DAILY. Each time.i call I'm informed there is complicated/complex issue being investigated. When I call, I've asked about the cons...

MarkCV1 by Tuning in
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Packet loss consistently

As stated consistently high packet loss has been going on for a few days now becoming quiet the common practice from virgin absolutely terrible have set up a broadband monitor https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/quality/share/af125819...

LS95 by Tuning in
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Resolved! lower speeds than paying for

will the speeds fluctuate after first inisitial  installation of virgin media,  for the next few days? Tested over ethernet connection to several different speed test sites

Palm771 by Tuning in
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Consistent buffering & signal drop

Hi GuysEver since my recent speed “upgrade” I have had nothing but issues with my WiFi ever since.Its now gotten to the point where it’s now affecting my working life as I work from home, my network connection is constantly dropping, teams is constan...

Jenson by Tuning in
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Disgraceful service from Virgin Media

People in my area have had no internet, TV or phone since 9am yesterday. Several updates via the service status page have indicated a resolution, only to be changed. Apparently they hope to resolve the outage tomorrow. I have my doubts, but we’ll see...

Thommo14 by Dialled in
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No service for (at least) 3 days

I'm in the Glasgow area and all of my services (broadband, TV, phone) have been out since Friday morning. I've been constantly checking the service status page and the estimated fix keeps slipping. Originally it was Friday evening but now it's suppos...

Blueyonder not sending e-mails

Can anyone suggest why Blueyonder is not sending some of my e-mails, even when I am replying to ones sent to me. They are being routed to my drafts folder.  There is no problem when I use my i-pad

Gooser42 by On our wavelength
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Re: Longer Coax Cable

Good afternoon. I am also looking to source what I believe is a coaxial cable. Is this what the cable shown in the below photograph is? If so I will call and order one but just want to make sure I'm asking for the right thing when I do! Thank you

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amykyle9 by Joining in
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Resolved! Terrible service in EH10 area for weeks !!!

My internet connection has been terrible for weeks in my area postcode EH10.I saw from other posts that a lot of people are reporting this. It might work for a few minutes or hours then stops working altogether.The whole weekend I had to use my mobil...

Losing the will to live

I have been without broadband since Friday morning ( lost a days work ) still not fixed. Updates are absolutely nonsense. Does anyone human work at virgin media at the weekend or is it just all automated gumf . When will this be fixed? Honest update ...

LRLR08 by Joining in
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