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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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Great broadband trashed by call centre

Hello to all  Virginmedia customers who have to call the help desk for support, there isn’t any, after lengthy calls to the call agents you are left frustrated and confused.  I would like to update my previous blog, returning customer to Virginmedia ...

Macme by On our wavelength
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Resolved! Sky Q and minis wired - disable wireless?

I’ve just got VM 1Gig to replace Sky broadband. My SkyQ and 2 SkyQ minis are connected via Ethernet (on unmanaged switches) to the Hub. Should I disable the SkyQ mesh (via the engineer settings) or keep it on? Will the minis communicate with the main...

WiFi cuts off at midnight!!

So we are now day 3 of my internet cutting off at midnight and not coming back on till the following morning!!! literally same time every night! 12am. Most days it’s back on in the am but the other day it did not come back till 12pm which isn’t great...

How to order a booster?

Hi, how do you order a WiFi booster? It says to do it by the connect app, but that just sends you round in circles. 

Resolved! SuperHub 3.0 constant redlight

Hi AllMy SH3 developed a constant red light a few months back - it was not hot or badly ventilated plus the broadband worked.  Today it has cut out completely - VM diagnostics could not restart so I did this manually with a full reset without any suc...

Red light on router

Hi, a few days ago I noticed the main power light on my wifi router that is normally white is now just solid red. I have tried powering it off & on several times leaving it switched off for at least half an hour, as soon as the power is restored it g...

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Wifi pods issue when running wifi calling or VPN

Any advice appreciated. Qofi is generally great but when moving between APs I have problems specifically when doing EE wifi calling and or have a VPN running Calls / connections hang.My wifi pods are set for wired backhaul but not sure this is a cont...

UPP Customer

I am an UPP customer with 500Mbps/500Mbps, and am looking for information on whether to transfer to Virgin, or jump ship to an Openreach reseller.Virgin have offer me the same deal that I had from UPP (to a degree, as the upload speed is vastly lower...

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