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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 5 Suddenly stopped working upstairs

In the last few days all laptops \ PCs stopped connecting to my hub 5 upstairs and in my home office. TP Link extenders 550 and 580 also stopped working and will not reconnect to the hub, even after hard reset (They go through the motions and find th...

oldnich by Joining in
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unknown ethernet device on router

have had router problems for a few days, router has been rebooted several times. I just logged onto the router to chek devices and i see an unknown device listed, as an oethernet connection - I don't have anything connected via ethernet so what is it...

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oldnich by Joining in
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Use wifi boosters without smart wifi

Hi, i have little coverage in my house so i got virgin media wifi boosters ( the ones that look like the hub 5 but smaller) but when i turn them on, it wont find the wifi. I dont want to enable smart wifi as i find it annoying how ill be getting 500 ...

Jas3r by Joining in
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Resolved! Unwanted ineffective pods - how return?

Lasts year I raised a complaint about the greatly reduced wifi signal I now (don't) receive - all investigations as to the cause came to zero and I objected to paying for a lesser service than when i first signed up.I was offered a pod to see if it m...

Super Hub 4 Speed Issues

For the last week, ironically since BRSK have been kicking around my area. Dudley I am getting faster uploads than down. I am getting on average on a wired conneciton whether it be in router or modem mode to my Draytek Switch on average around 35 - 8...

vk2011 by Tuning in
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Hub 5 VPN issues (NordVPN)

Hi guys!Recently upgraded from my hub 3, M125 package to the hub 5 Gig 1 service. I’ve noticed the speed I’m getting on my firestick with my VPN on (NordVPN) is around a tenth of the speed with the VPN switched off. I’m getting around 300ish with VPN...

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Repeat Hub Issue

VM ref last engineering visit to my property it was agreed that a new Hub would not be necessary given the remediation of faults - a new cable to the property and replacement of a connection / termination box (apology I can’t recall the name) inside ...

mermaids by On our wavelength
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Upgrading my Hub?

I’ve been a Virgin Media customer for almost 10 years now and still have the same Broadband Hub  that came with my package - as of late it’s really struggling to keep all our devices connected. I’m constantly having to reboot the Hub just to kick it ...

ipulfer by Tuning in
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