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Resolved! Wifi no longer visible on London underground

Hi all,  I noticed for the first time today that the usual virgin media WiFi network isn't there on the tube. Is this being phased out?     [MOD EDIT: Please see update on post 111 here]      

ruswit by On our wavelength
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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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Repeat Outages in Maidenhead

Hi Virgin,Continous outages in our area with the broadband at the minute, had about 4 this week, downtime varies from 20 minutes to a few hours and we’ve only had the service since June. It’s happened frequently particularly recently and is unaccepta...

OllyWz by Joining in
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Resolved! Repeated connectivity issues with VM broadband

I’ve been having regular connectivity issues with VM fibre broadband for over a month. Almost every other day there are drop outs lasting 15 minutes and sometimes hours. I first reported an issue via the website status checker around the 10th July. H...

Impossible to order WiFi Pods

Why is it so hard to order a free WiFi Pod which I am entitled with my package?  I have run speed tests in the Connect App showing in one room a speed of 10MB.  But no option to order a Pod in the Connect App.  I have logged in to my account on the w...

Joe17 by Joining in
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Upload speed

I play online games every weekend,and the upload speed is keeping slow or 0 mbI already is 1gb fibre  package a month and your promotion said that will not affect the download and upload speed!

Jay0817 by Joining in
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whats wrong with the signal?

what's wrong with the wifi signal?I pay £45 a month for the 1gb,now the wifi is just 119mb download and o mb upload?and also the hubs speed 0 mb upload!what's the problem

Jay0817 by Joining in
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Frequent disconnection

Hello,I recently got connected with Virgin Media broadband. Since the beginning, my router has frequently been disconnected from the virgin server and restarted very frequently causing loss of internet for at least 15 minutes per episode. This has be...

zahidrmc by Joining in
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Using VM Powerline with own router in modem mode

Helloso I currently have a hub3 with naff wifi range and i've been unsuccessful in persuading VM to send me a hub4 or 5.I've decided to buy my own router but I'm currently using a number of the old style Wifi powerline boosters to extend my wifi cove...

Ryles by Joining in
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Broadband

I am in area 14.(BD2 1LJ) Every so often we are getting a drop in broadband service. This is random and infrequent. The hub 4 begins to flash. After restarting by either switching off and on and or resetting it clears. The last time was about an hour...

ianjayne by Rising star
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Resolved! Terrible speed, potential network fault

 I've been experiencing an extremely slow broadband speed for a few weeks now. I have an M350 package, previously speedtest would very consistently show speed in the 350 Mbps range, lately it's been around 8-11 Mbps so clearly something is off. No ch...

lucianf by Tuning in
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