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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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Why two TV boxes showing in VM Connect app?

I wonder if anyone has experienced this in the VM Connect (iOS) app whereby having successfully set up my second WiFi Pod, “My network” now shows two TV boxes when I only have one TV 360 box. The original TV box is showing as “Not connected” but ther...

Almedia by Dialled in
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Wifi pods

Hey there please help, I have gone through the connect app all around my house in two different directions I have less 10mb the app says I needs pods but just tells me to login to order which I already am so I log in again just takes me back to to my...

router keeps powering itself down

My virgin media router keeps turning itself off, have reset it 3 times know and the problem still persistsAlso cannot connect to my router using 192.168.0.1/192.168.1.1

paulfu by Tuning in
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Flashing red lihht

Since yesterday morning had no WiFi and phoned virgin to be told engineer booked to come today between 12 and 4.   Never received any confirmation so phoned back yo be told operator hadn't booked engineer and I will now need to wait till Monday.   Di...

Poor Wifi coverage

Hello,We've recently had a home extension and now several areas in the house are not able to reach the Wifi. I've followed the advice online to run a download speed check but the VM connect app will not work as no wifi is present in the affected room...

Lj2708 by Joining in
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Local DNS suffix is now cable.virginm.net

4 days ago I received and setup my Virgin Hub 3.I then put the Hub 3 into modem only mode and connected this to my Linksys Velop mesh WiFi router.Everything was working fine until the early hours of this morning when lots of things on my local networ...

ajdunlop by Tuning in
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Impossible to order Wi-Fi pods

Hi I am in the exact same situation in this frustrating merry go round (not so merry!). I was on the phone for almost an hour, and whilst the chap tried his best, there simply is not an option to order the wifi pod, despite him being adamant there sh...

Joe_ by Joining in
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Impossible to order wifi pods

I followed all the steps, downloaded the connect app and did the scan. The results in the office are terrible yet impossible to order pod. Online and on our account, I keep getting sent round and round in circles. Please advise, thanks. 

Speed not as promised

Absolutely sick and tired of trying to sort our broadband speed issues. Upgraded to Gig1 after almost cancelling as we thought it would be more beneficial than swapping providers but our speed is now worse than it was with our previous package. We ha...