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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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Wi-Fi booster pods

I’ve now made half a dozen calls to VM re: my wi-fi booster pods. I recently got a new Hub and the old pods do not work. I have since found that this is because the VM central team need to link the serial numbers to the new hub. I’ve given the serial...

Markpe by On our wavelength
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Slow Safari Web Browser

We’ve just got Virgin Media Broadband. Our speed is great on our phones and my MacBook EXCEPT when using Safari web browser, when using safari it takes ages for web pages to load.is there a way to fix this?Other web browsers like Google Chrome work m...

Resolved! Router needs replacing

My router is really old and gets so hot I have to shut it down overnight. It takes more than 10 minutes to boot up and sometimes doesn’t kick in at all. I have no idea how to contact VM for help with this. Customer service doesn’t seem to exist and t...

KTed by Joining in
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Intermittent sound fault

When watching live tv i keep getting a intermittent sound loss and pictures freeze but only when adverts are on , i don't get the problem when watching a program 

Resolved! Super Hub 5x / mesh setups

We’ve just gone live with our gigabit service over the weekend, and looking for some tips on optimal configuration with an existing mesh network.Ideally we’d run the SH5x in bridge mode, but this isn’t available as yet, so we have our Amplifi HD runn...

Wifi Pod keeps dropping out and blinking white

I seem to have the same problem as a lot of people with intermittent functionality on my wifi pod - most of the time it just blinks white and doesn’t show up on the network sometimes after multiple resets it comes on for a brief while

khayyaam by Joining in
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Access Denied for multiple websites

For the past week or so now I have had the following error message when trying to access Next.co.uk. Access DeniedYou don't have permission to access "http://www.next.co.uk/" on this server.I've now found the same happens when I try to get to TUI, Jo...

AdamRW89 by Joining in
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