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...
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...
POWER LEVELS & SNR: TECHNICAL PRIMER (Updated October 2016) PART A - APPLICABLE DOCSIS STANDARDS INTRODUCTION There are no precise numbers for power levels although you can be sure that the numbers offered as optimal here will not be the c...
Been advised by my employer that I may need an engineer appointment to resolve my company VPN issues while working from home. I continously loose VPN signal throughout the day up to 10 -15 times per day. I have the highest package with the Hub 5 I ...
I'm in area 30, and I have rebooted my hub several times but no speed boost yet, I'm paying for a 1gig connection and I'm still only getting if I'm lucky 550-580meg down and 52meg up. not impressed to be honest. [MOD EDIT: Subject title changed for...
HiDays ago I got the email saying my 1Gig package upstream is being upgraded to 104Mbit and all I have to do is powercycle my hub5. I have powered off, waited and restarted several times, It is still on 52Mbit upstream.Why is the change not happenin...
Aside from my other post recently about my internet being slow / disconnecting, theres been another issue ongoing for the past week. All ethernet connections are experiencing internet drops whilst the wifi is still working. Sometimes the ethernet con...
Why is my broadband home kit taking a month to deliver?
So I’ve been having a few issues with virgin since I set up a few months ago, to the point I’ve had three hubs. But slowly everything is working fine, apart from a small minor annoyance. On the van connect app, it shows both the old broken hub and th...
I've noticed that TP-Link are prepping consumer routers with optional 10Gbps SPF module (this allows connection of the fibre direct to the router). I realise this calls for speculation of the highest order (unless someone from VM cares to comment) bu...
I am on 1Gb, and have marketing preferences accepted: how do I get the Hub 5?
There is no internet in the share house i live in since 13/07. Reported this to landlords they say they're trying to "chase down the problem with virgin but had no luck so far" whatever that means.Kind of don't know who's at fault here. I am not the ...
