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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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My Virgin Media App Run a Test not working

 Had this issue since getting virgin just over a month ago, I've tried calling and no one seems to understand the issue and can't seem to connect to my hub from their end either. Internet cut off the other day and had an engineer out who replaced the...

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Virgin Media Pods : my experience

I ordered a black pod, and so far after using it for 6 weeks, I have decided that using the main router is better.I get lost connections and the speed varies from 70 to 460 . ( I have a 1 gig connection)My black pod is connected via ethernet in my lo...

mda99das by Up to speed
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WiFi pod - how to order

Yet another question on the same topic. I've done the scan in the office room and my daughter's room, both come up as slow. App says I need to order a pod and it's easily done online, except it isn't easy at all. How do I order a pod?

Internet down but hub is giving mixed signals

My internet has been down for about an hour. It was working fine, then went off all of a sudden.The arrows on my hub keep flashing green then red.When I looked online to see what the green arrows meant it says that it's a fault with connectivity on m...

Nix1111 by Joining in
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Repeated loss of service red light hub

For over a year I've had repeated loss of  broadband service for weeks at a time, initially told this was an area issue. Was told this was going to be fixed in two weeks but I had an ongoing issue for 6 weeks, getting any support around registering t...

Red light on hub

I have just a red light on hub box, no internet connection to tv but able to connect by WiFi on phone and tablet, have reset etc what could be wrong?

Ems60 by Joining in
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Resolved! Connecting security camera to Hub 5 Fails

HiI have just upgrade my Virgin Router to the latest Hub 5. The engineer was here to set it up for me. With the old virgin router  I was able to connect my external security camera to the Network via WiFi and it worked fine. Now with the new router I...

Mikef47 by Joining in
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Intermittent connection issues and packet loss

Hi All, I'm back after initially having my issue resolved in https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Speed/Intermittent-issue-causing-slow-download-speeds/td-p/5550106My connection issues are back and worse with constant timeouts and packet loss.Live BQ...

Zoomeh by Tuning in
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