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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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Failed WiFi pod

One of my WiFi pods has started making a very loud screeching noise, is hot and has a blinking red light.I’ve had it for some time and this fault has occurred suddenly.  I’ve unplugged, allowed to cool and retry.  It is located in the hall and is wel...

Wifi Pod

Took delivery of a new Hub 5 recently but my WIFI Pod fails to connect to it.  The VM Connect App initially saw the Pod on the network but advised that it was "unconnected".  Have since tried it in various rooms and power sockets but it only ever sho...

Connect app

Hi virgin media So today I signed up to connect app and started running tests   my results for hub have been worrying Hub 5 latency records as 14318 msJitter   776ms Does this sound high to you?

Sara65 by Joining in
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Hub4

HiHave been having problems with the connect app not finding the hub4. I have done reboots and hard resets and still does not help with the connect app. I tried connecting direct to the hub using 192.168.0.1 using ethernet and WiFi today and neither ...

Grumps70 by On our wavelength
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Red light

Hi there my router has a red flashing light and the incoming white box on the wall has a red light at the same time of day for the last 3 days and it is really starting to bug me now why is it doing it almost like clockwork and how do I fix it 郎勞

Miles4 by Joining in
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Hub 3.0 WiFi dropping out

My hub 3.0 WiFi has been awful lately. I’ve recently switched from m500 fibre to volt 250 and I’ve had nothing but grief with it since I switched. Now my hub has developed a WiFi issue where if I walk more than 2 meters away from it I go from 250mbs ...

Virgin media down again.....

This is getting absolutely ridiculous 4 night in a now where the Internet has gone out this has been happening for over a month and I've received zero support other than try a pin hole reset well guess what? That DOESN'T work.This year virgin media h...

JamieB1 by Tuning in
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Hub 5 5 and 2.4 ghz band help

I have a hub 5 and I am trying to setup some new Wi-Fi plugs which require 2.4ghz. I found a post which explained how to rename the 2 ghz so I could set up the plugs and lights.  However  my app is asking me to optimise my network and wants to move i...

Magoo19 by Joining in
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