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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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Trying to order a wifi booster

HiI have the Gig1 Full Fibre Broadband but our lower ground floor kitchen / living room needs better wifi for our security camera. I've gone onto my account, found the help page to see if I am eligible to order one, clicked on the link and it just ke...

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Resolved! Broadband dropping regularly

According to Virgin Media I made the fatal mistake of having my own Mesh system for WiFi. On Sunday I noticed my Internet access was rather sluggish so I checked my broadband speed and discovered it was around 80MBits/sec. Which surprised me since my...

Update on my broadband which kept cutting out

Idk if anyone’s been keeping track but I’ve been constantly posting on the sub Reddit about how my broadband kept cutting out for nearly 2 months now and I’ve had about 10 engineers come over to try and resolve the issue where they changed all the ca...

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Router Not Delivered

Hey, I have ordered a wifi router that had a delivery date set for today however this has not appeared, I haven’t received any dispatch confirmation nor any other information from yodel. I cannot use customer services either due to not having an acco...

Port forwarding issue HUB 5

Greetings to the esteemed community,I seek your expertise regarding a technical matter concerning port forwarding on the HUB 5 device. Within my local area network (LAN), I possess multiple "smart devices" that can be accessed and controlled locally ...

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Hub 4 acting weird in Router Mode

Hi, 2nd post on here, but this time, it's my Hub 4 being completely weird, the only thing in my whole house connecting is the downstairs tv via ethernet, all the rest are WiFi, My brothers phones and laptop, my ps5 and PC and my phone are all failing...

What gaming router do you recommend 1gig

Hi all. So I have the 1gig service running hub5. I am thinking of getting a good router to use and make the most of the service. I am after one that has a min 2.5/5gig wan port and four 2.5gig lan ports or better. Gaming focused preferably. After red...

Lied to and ignored by a Virgin Media door sales rep

On the 21/05/2024 I had a door sales Virgin Media representative come to my home (I’ve had this a few times before). The rep told me that Virgin were paying off people’s contracts, I explained to him that I was currently working so he left me a card ...

Resolved! Problems connecting to internet

Laptop having problems connecting to internet with hub 3, connects after numerous attempts but very erratic . Laptop connects to phone hotspot and network at another address, help please very frustrating.