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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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Intermittent total internet loss - long term issue

Hello, I've been experiencing intermittent total internet loss for a while. It's normally a small duration of a few seconds, which causes problems, but it's been getting worse. I thought it was my network for a long time but I've directly connected a...

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Ruthy60 by Joining in
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Hub 4 flashing yellow

Hello all. My Hub 4 has been regularly quickly flashing yellow, followed by a slow white light, for weeks. It does this multiple times a day, often for hours at a time, briefly reconnecting (constant white light) for a few minutes, only to drop out a...

CarlyB by Joining in
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Hub flashing yellow!

Hi our Internet connection appears to be down! The Hub has been restarted but just flashes yellow. Should I raise a call for this problem? My wife works from home and this really is not good. Hoping it gets fixed soon... 

Unstable connection

Hi guysnew to the board. My broadband and phone lines have had terrible connection the last few weeks we work from home, and the past week we’ve been seeing a huge increase in the amount of times we’ve lost service.today was the cherry on the top whe...

Hub 3 green flashing light and green wifi

So out of the blue today my wifi has gone down and no fixes found on here, nor anywhere else, have worked. I understand that these things can go wrong but what I don’t understand is when I call customer support and speak with someone who was rude, ke...

MarcusR by Joining in
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Resolved! Channel 108 5ghz

Had upgrade to 1gb from 250mb. Channel optimisation is selecting 108 all the time for 5ghz. Everything seems to be working fine wirelessly but this is not a UK channel. I know I can turn it off and select a channel but then my upstairs pod goes off. 

stuy28 by Tuning in
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Resolved! Hub 5 5GHz causes interference on Freeview

As per the title, having had a Hub 5 more or less forced upon me because telephones, I noticed severe interference on my Freeview TV, picture breakup and audio dropouts. Initially I didn't connect the two and assumed it was just a poor signal and wou...

Stratman by On our wavelength
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Hub 5 just stopped working

My hub 5 is only a couple of months old, had no issues as such but this morning (as I was about to log onto work!!) it just stopped and all I am getting is a flashing red light. I have restarted it and followed the “troubleshooting” that says there’s...

Kojwhite by Joining in
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Hub5 and Plex

I really hope someone can help me, I'm pulling my hair out over something I think is probably simple.I recently moved and took all my old Virgin equipment with me.  Once everything was connected up the engineer said, "Hey, you've got an old hub, let'...