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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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To Join Virgin Media or Not, My Experience.

Thought i would post this for those yet to join but are checking out how the land lays when problems arise etc. I believe both positive and negative feedback is worth time otherwise the playing field becomes a little bit skewed.And no this is not all...

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Black WiFi Pods are brilliant

I live in an old Victorian-era house, with walls 3 feet wide with no cavities. In the past, I had two areas that could only manage about 10Mbps, if that. As a result, I had to use the electric HomePlugs, but as the old house has been re-wired so many...

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almark by On our wavelength
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Re: Red light on Virgin Media Hub

I have the hub 3 and have had a solid red light appearing for a number of months.  I’ve reset the router a few times and the red light still appears. Do I need a new hub?

Trac1 by Joining in
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My broadband has been cutting out for a month now

Honestly it’s driving me insane this broadband keeps cutting out random it’s both the wires and wireless connection. I’ve had nearly 10 engineer visits and none have managed to fix it sometimes it’ll flash green, sometimes white then green other time...

Sayem118 by Joining in
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Red Light on Hub 3

Red Light on for a couple weeksTried the recommended resets and reboots. Area is ventilated and out of sunlight.Hub is warm to the touch in a few places as well as the connecting port for the fibre.Onboard testing says temperature is ok.If we can req...

Drofder by Up to speed
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VM broadband unusable SE London

Hi,For the last 6 weeks my broadband has been unusable. <1MBps. I'm constantly told that there is a problem in my area and it will be resolved on X date Y days from now. Date X rolls around and and fix date is just extended again. It's so frustrating...

Virgin media not available on my street

Hivigin media cables were laid down 18 month ago in my village. The Main Street next to me has Virgin broadband availability but on my  cup de sac we don’t have availability. My house is 10 meters from availability. Is it possible for someone to look...

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